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Skylab

1916 – Gough Whitlam, later Prime Minister of Australia, was born.
1974 – Sir John Kerr sworn in as Governor-General of Australia.
1979 – American space station Skylab crashes in Western Australia
1987 – The Bob Hawke-led Australian Labor Party returned to power after a double dissolution federal election.
1990 – Sarah MacDiarmid, age 23, disappears and likely murdered at Kananook railway station, Melbourne. The crime remains unsolved.

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