King's Birthday (Australia)
Second Monday of June in most Australian states. Has nothing to do with the actual birthday of any king — it's a colonial-era public holiday that became its own thing.
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Also on this day
Full history →Notable · 2019
Dominican-American retired baseball player David Ortiz was shot and severely wounded while at a bar in Santo Domingo.- 2010At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.
- 2009An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
- 2008Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.