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Australia Day is the official national day of Australia.Observed annually on 26 January, it marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour. [2]
In August 2017 the council of the City of Yarra, in Melbourne, resolved unanimously that it would no longer hold citizenship ceremonies on 26 January and stop referring to it as Australia Day, instead holding an event acknowledging Aboriginal culture and history; [28] the City of Darebin soon followed suit. The federal government immediately ...
1869 – Duncan Gordon Boyes, English soldier; Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1846) [168] 1885 – Edward Davy, English-Australian physician and engineer (b. 1806) [169] 1885 – Charles George Gordon, English general and politician (b. 1833) [170] 1886 – David Rice Atchison, American general and politician (b. 1807) [171]
Updated January 19, 2017 at 8:43 AM Donald Trump is expected to focus on some of his most prominent campaign issues including jobs, border security and trade in his inaugural address on Friday.
President Donald Trump delivered his as first speech as commander in chief on Inauguration Day Friday morning.
On May 31, 1969, a 21-year-old Hillary Rodham delivered a fiery speech in which "Fear is always with us but we just don't have time for it. Not now," Clinton said during the speech.
The Constitution of India came into force, and India declared itself a Republic on 26 January 1950, a day thereafter celebrated annually as Republic Day in India. The Constitution had been drafted by the Constituent Assembly headed by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar which was set up when India gained its independence from the British in 1947.
March 23, 2017 at 3:30 PM The Duchess of Cambridge spoke at an event for a British charity today, giving a touching and poignant speech about motherhood, its joys, and also its struggles.