1944— Lieutenant General Stanley Savige’s II Australian Corps relieved Americans at Torokina, Bougainville.

1918— HMAS Australia led the port line of the British Fleet at the surrender of the German Fleet in the Firth of Forth, Scotland.  HMA Ships Melbourne and Sydney were also present.

1943— Japanese forces launched a surprise counter-attack at Scarlet Beach, near Lae, New Guinea. The position was narrowly held by Australian and American defenders. 

1940— HMAS Goorangai is lost with all hands in Port Phillip Bay after a collision with the MV Duntroon. HMAS Goorangai was the RAN's first surface vessel lost with all hands, and the first RAN vessel lost in the Second World War.

1951— HMA Ships Sydney and Tobruk take part in Operation ANTHENAEUM, a combined surface and air strike on Hungnam, during the Korean War.

1958— Soldiers of 3RAR in battle with communist terrorists near Sungei Siput, Malaya, during the Malayan Emergency. 

1939— George Rayner Hoff, the artist responsible for the sculptures of the Anzac Memorial, including Sacrifice, dies of pancreatitis, aged 42.

1940— No 3 Squadron RAAF were involved in their first air combat against the Italians in North Africa.

1941— HMAS Sydney sinks the German Raider Kormoran off the coast of Western Australia but is lost with her entire crew of 645 men. 

1916 — The Battle of the Somme ended as Allied Forces ceased the offensive push. Both sides suffered over 600,000 casualties during the five-month campaign.

1942 — Popondetta is captured from the Japanese as Australian troops advance across the Owen Stanley Range, New Guinea. 

1917 — Australian Light Horse troops were involved in the Battle of Nebi Samwil, Palestine. 

1943 — The Australian 9th Division commences its attack on Sattelberg, New Guinea.

2006 — Wing Commander Linda Corbould OAM became the first woman to command a RAAF flying squadron when she took command of No 36 Squadron.