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![Photo of the Rabbit proof fence, taken in 1927](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Rabbit-proof-fence-000876d.jpg/100px-Rabbit-proof-fence-000876d.jpg)
- 1820 – Joseph Wild discovers Lake George and names the Snowy Mountains.
- 1907 – The Rabbit-proof fence is completed.
- 1961 – Four Corners TV current affairs program first screened.
- 1986 – Nine-year-old Sydney schoolgirl Samantha Knight disappears from Bondi in Sydney.