 | Craig Hill February 18 | Here are some of the events that happened on this day in Australian history. Please feel free to add others that you know of in the comments section. - 1793 – The first school in the colony opens in an unfinished church building in Sydney.
- 1946 – The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Norman Thomas Gilroy, becomes Cardinal Gilroy, the first Australian-born member of the College of Cardinals.
- 1958 – Two hundred thousand people assemble to meet the Queen Mother in Brisbane.
- 2001 – Four people are killed when a landslide forces a bus into a ravine at Cradle Mountain.
- 2006 – Six teenagers are killed and another is injured in a hit and run accident in Cardross, near Mildura.
International Observances. - Dialect Day (Amami Islands, Japan)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Gambia from the United Kingdom in 1965
- Kurdish Students Union Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
- National Democracy Day, celebrates the 1951 overthrow of the Rana dynasty (Nepal)
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