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Tasmania
1996 Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning

1996 Martin Bryant shoots and kills 35 in Port Arthur Tasmania

1994 Earliest start of Sheffield Shield season (Queensland vs. Tasmania)

1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days

1975 Carla Boyd, Wynyard Tasmania, basketball player 1996 Olympics bronze

1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent and Hobart, Tasmania and ship sinks

1974 Ricky Ponting, cricketer, prodigious Tasmania batsman, Australia 1995

1973 Scott Goodman, Hobart Tasmania Aus, 200m butterfly swimmer, Oly-br-96

1973 Toby Haenen, Hobart Tasmania Aus, backstroke swimmer 1996 Olympics

1967 Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives

1960 David Boon, cricketer, short backward square from Tasmania

1957 Debbie Brinkley, Tasmania, golfer, 1990 T25 Victorian Open

1949 John Tarrant, Tasmania, 1st Australian born Zen teacher

1936 Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, SA vs. Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes

1933 Jack Badcock scores 274 vs. Victoria, Tasmania's 1st double-ton

1933 Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria vs. Tasmania at Hobart

1930 Tasmania all out 280, WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500

1914 Jack Badcock, cricketer, Tasmania Australian batsman of 30's

1909 Errol Flynn, born in Hobart, Tasmania, actor, Captain Blood, Robin Hood

1898 1st 1st-class game between NSW and Tasmania

1896 Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory

1895 Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years

1851 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs. Vic, Launceston

1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania

1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)

1804 Hobart Tasmania founded

1659 Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ), dies at about 56

1643 Able Tasmania returns to Batavia after discovering Tasmania

1642 Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)



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