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Vickers Vimy aircraft

1860 – The Victorian College for the Deaf is opened in a small house in Peel Street, Windsor.
1919 – Keith and Ross Macpherson Smith set out to fly a Vickers Vimy, G-EAOU, from England to Australia, the first flight between these two places. They arrive in Darwin on December 18.
1943 – Japanese planes make their last air raid on Darwin.
1971 – The Seven Mile Beach National Park is established 110 km southwest of Sydney.

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