Golden Wattle aka Acacia pycnantha
Resident of Canberra, Australia where the time is 15:48 (AEST).
I started contributing to English Wikipedia in February 2005 and Commons in July 2005. I became an administrator on 4 March 2006.
I changed my user name from AYArktos in September 2006. Another name change from Golden Wattle to Matilda in November 2007.
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On this day in Australia (UTC)
- 1932 - Food relief reached its peak in New South Wales with 413 171 food orders processed in the preceding four weeks.
- 1937 - Robin Warren, Nobel Prize winner is born.
- 1964 - The Beatles began their three week tour of Australia; in Adelaide 300,000 fans turned out to see the band drive in a motorcade from the airport into the city.
- 1971 - Neville Bonner is sworn into the Australian Senate, he is the first Aboriginal federal parliamentarian.
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