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What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history. See acast.com/priva...
REPEAT: At 2am on this day in 1944, the Cowra Breakout began. This episode looks at the man who blew the bugle that gave the signal for the...
REPEAT: On this day in 1912, William Chidley, radical sexologist and one of Australia’s most eccentric characters, was arrested for being a...
REPEAT: On this day in 1986, one of Australia's strangest and funniest crimes was committed when Pablo Picasso's masterpiece The Weeping Wom...
REPEAT: On this day in 1905, Flos Greig became Australia’s first female lawyer — but before she could practice the law she had to change it...
REPEAT: Australia suffered what is still our worst industrial disaster when an explosion ripped through the Mount Kembla mine on 31 July 190...
REPEAT: Pioneering Australian pilots Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm and Bert Hinkler are household names for their aviation feats and...
REPEAT: On the 24th of May 1917, famous Aussie boxier James Leslie “Les” Darcy died in America. Just over two months later in Western Austra...
REPEAT: On this day in 1950 in Cairns, amateur herpetologist Kevin Budden caught a Taipan to start Australia’s anti-venom program for that d...
REPEAT: On this day in 1909 the SS Waratah, voyaging from Australia to England via South Africa with more than 200 people aboard, vanished w...
REPEAT: On this day in 1919, boxer George Mendies won the Australian Flyweight Title — and it was a crown he'd defend successfully again and...
REPEAT: On this day 111 years ago, two scientific giants spent a couple of hours hanging out and talking shop in Sydney. One had invented th...
REPEAT: On this day in 1920, Raymond Longford's classic silent film On Our Selection had its Australian premiere in Brisbane. This was a bus...
REPEAT: On this day in 1931 Australia was shocked by news of an Adelaide crime, as much for its sheer brutality as for the cold and calculat...
REPEAT: On this day in 1950, Australia learned that its driest and most inhospitable region had become a huge inland sea — and that it was b...
REPEAT: On this day in 1942, the battle for the Kokoda Track began — just as the long and lonely war of a brave Australian coastwatcher came...
REPEAT: 81 years ago today the Battle of Britain was raging. Among those taking on the Nazis in Spitfires was a handful of young Australian...
REPEAT: Born in 1900, Charles Shaw grew up in poverty, was orphaned at age 14 and worked more tough jobs than he could count over the next t...
REPEAT: On this day in 1968, geologist Jim Bowler found the bones of an Aboriginal woman who'd died and been ritually cremated and buried mo...
REPEAT: On this day in 1940, a bullet-ridden body was found in a dark alley in Sydney's Surry Hills. The reign of razor-gangster William Smi...
REPEAT: At the Stockholm Olympics in 1912, champion swimmer Fanny Durack became the first Australian woman to win a gold medal. But Fanny ne...
REPEAT: Back when the Village People's Can't Stop The Music was top of the charts and AC/DC's Back In Black was about to be released, Austra...
REPEAT: After much preparation, expenditure and near catastrophe, the rival cities of Sydney and Melbourne are as last connected by telephon...
REPEAT: Aboriginal boxer Dave Sands was a household name in the late 1940s and early 1950s, holding three Australian titles — and wearing th...
REPEAT: On this day in 1965, wireless pioneer Sir Ernest Fisk died in his Sydney home. This eccentric genius left a colourful legacy, having...
REPEAT: Australian Army Warrant Officer Kevin Conway of Queensland became the first Australian soldier to die in combat in Vietnam when the...
REPEAT: On this day in 1920 Sydney police arrested a man named Harry Crawford for murder — giving Australian newspapers the story of the yea...
REPEAT: What possessed a 15-year-old Sydney boy to save for three years to buy a 50-year-old vintage steamroller? How'd he end up splashed a...
REPEAT: Australia's first railway got under way with huge fanfare — and then went nowhere for more than half a decade. As bad as this delay...
REPEAT: When colonial newspaper readers were jolted by the claim that electric snakes were on the loose, it was up to a heretical scientific...
REPEAT: The ABC is born amid controversy over whether it should carry advertisements and whether its bosses are politically biased. Here’s t...
On this day in 1935, taxi driver John Smillie (cousin of William Smillie, the razor gangster of the 13 July episode) was shot dead in Sydney...
On this day in 1973, the deal was done — Australia was the proud new owner of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles. The price? $1.3m — the most ever...
On this weekend in 1992, two bodies were found in Belanglo State Forest in the Southern Highlands of NSW. The discovery triggered the hunt f...
Arthur Benjamin was born on this day in 1893 — and it was also on this day in 1950 that he was in The Sun newspaper slamming Sydney as a bac...
On this day in 1944, Australia's most famous war cameraman — whose film Kokoda Front Line! had won us our first Oscar the previous year — wa...
On this day in 1956, Channel Nine executive Bruce Gyngell uttered these famous words. While TV was a modern marvel, its genesis in Australia...
125 years ago today, Mark Twain, acclaimed as the world's funniest man, steamed into Sydney Harbour — and started cracking jokes to a newspa...
Rod Taylor was our biggest movie star of the 1960s, beloved by generations of Australians for his knock-about persona and success in Hollywo...
On this day a century ago, Captain Percy William Snell thrilled Brisbane by performing aviation stunts in a biplane right over the centre of...
On this day 80 years ago, the SS Dunera steamed into Sydney Harbour. Aboard were more than 2000 men — most of them European Jews who'd fled...
On this day in 1908, Australia's most beloved and popular poem saw print for the first time. Dorothea Mackellar's "My Country" — with its li...
This was the 24 hours of Australia's war from the first shot of the war fired to the mass internment of 300 people. Hosted on Acast. See aca...
On this day in 1901, the Australian flag was raised for the first time after the winners of the competition to design our national ensign we...
On this day 50 years ago, Sydney's vice squad swooped on a clear, present and wholly fictitious danger to society: Alexander Portnoy. He was...
On this day in 1934, the pyjama-clad body of a young woman was found near Albury in NSW, triggering one of Australia's most baffling murder...
Australian silent movie star Lotus Thompson was born on this day in 1904. Before she turned 20 she'd arrived in Hollywood and made her name...
On this day in 1824, two desperate convicts fled the brutality of one of Australia’s most notorious penal settlements to take their chances...
On this day in 1973, young thug Archibald McCafferty — fueled by drugs and supported by a gang of youthful misfits — began a killing spree t...
On this day in 1966, Gurindji stockmen and their families — led by elder Vincent Lingiari — walked off the job at the Wave Hill station in t...
This was the day that Australian punters went to the movies for the first time – and it happened at Melbourne’s Opera House just nine months...