Today is World Television Day, which recognises the role that television plays in presenting different issues that affect people and helps highlight the beneficial purposes of television.
1783 - Two Frenchmen make the first untethered hot-air balloon flight, flying 5.5 miles over Paris in about 25 minutes.
1856 - The opening of the first Victorian Parliament.
1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of a 'talking machine', which preceded the phonograph.
1881 - Victorian’s 35th Premier, Ian MacFarlan, was born.
1899 - It was reported that as the Jeparit school building had become too small for the number of students attending, the Education Department had arranged for classes to be taught in the Mechanics' Insitute hall during the summer months. This required the Police Court sessions to either be held on Saturdays, instead of Tuesdays or be moved to the schoolhouse.
1916 - The ‘Britannic’, sister ship to the ‘Titanic’ which had sunk 4 years previously, sinks after striking a mine in the Aegean Sea. At this time, this ship had been requisitioned by the British government to serve as a hospital ship and was operating between the World War One battlefields in the Dardanelles and England.
1936 - Victor Chang, an Australian heart surgeon and one of the pioneers of modern heart transplantation, is born.
1945 - Premier of Victoria Ian MacFarlan retired from office having served 51 days (on his 64th birthday) and was replaced by John Cain (Snr) who assumed office for his second term.
1969 - The first permanent ARPANET link is established. This is the foundation of the modern internet.
1980 - 350 million people around the world tune in to television’s popular primetime drama “Dallas” to find out who shot J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate.
2009 - Competitive rowing returned to the Wimmera River in Dimboola after a four-year absence, due to drought conditions, with the hosting of the 122nd Dimboola Rowing Regatta.
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