ON THIS DAY

1842: Founding of city of Hobart.

1915: The last major fighting by Australian troops takes place at Gallipoli.

1943: Dorothy Margaret Tangney (WA) and Enid Lyons (Tas) are the first women elected to the Australian federal parliament. 1984: Australia’s federal budget speech is televised live from Canberra for the first time.

2013: A US military court sentences soldier Bradley Manning to 35 years in jail for handing secret government documents to WikiLeaks. 2014: Former News of the World deputy editor Neil Wallis and former features editor Jules Stenson appear in a UK court over phone hacking allegations.

Birthdays: Kenny Rogers, US country singer (1938-); Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google (1973-); Simon Katich, Australian cricketer (1975-); Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter (1986-).