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First flight in South Australia [37] Bolivar, South Australia: Bleriot monoplane: Carl William 'Bill' Wittber 1910: 1910-03-17: SA: First controlled flight in South Australia [38] Bolivar, South Australia: Bleriot monoplane: Fred Custance 1910: 1910-03-18: Vic: Flight at Diggers Rest [38] Diggers Rest, Victoria: Voisin biplane: Harry Houdini ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia was a part of the worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first confirmed case in Australia was identified on 25 January 2020, in Victoria , when a man who had returned from Wuhan , Hubei Province, China , tested positive ...
First transpacific flight (US to Australia): Charles Kingsford Smith and crew, in the Southern Cross, flew from Oakland, California, to Brisbane, Australia via Hawaii and Fiji, between May 31 and June 9, 1928. [174] First rocket-powered aircraft to fly: was the Lippisch Ente flown by Fritz Stamer on June 11, 1928, using solid fuel rockets. [175]
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In 1948, the first commercial flight from Australia to Africa was flown by Qantas, launching what is known as the Wallaby Route. [2] [3] In 1954, the first flight from Australia to North America was completed, as a 60-passenger Qantas aircraft connected Sydney with San Francisco and Vancouver, having fuel stops at Fiji, Canton Island and Hawaii ...
On 30 April 2020, the ACT declared itself to be free of all known cases of COVID-19, the first Australian jurisdiction. [87] However, on 4 May there was a one new case, a young woman who acquired the virus overseas. [ 88 ]
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