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Bill Denny, MC (1872–1946) was a South Australian journalist, lawyer, Labor politician and decorated soldier who held a seat in the South Australian House of Assembly for 33 years. He was elected in 1900, re-elected in 1902, defeated in 1905 and re-elected the following year, then retained his seat until defeated in 1933. Denny was the Attorney-General of South Australia in the Labor government led by John Verran (1910–12). In August 1915, Denny enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force to serve in World War I, initially as a trooper in the 9th Light Horse Regiment. After being commissioned in 1916, he served in the artillery on the Western Front. He was awarded the Military Cross for his actions on 15 September 1917 when he was wounded while leading a convoy into forward areas near Ypres. He was again Attorney-General in the governments led by John Gunn, Lionel Hill and Robert Richards. When Denny died in 1946 aged 73, he was accorded a state funeral. (Full article...)
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Did you know...
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 William Hood Dunwoody
- ... that William Hood Dunwoody (pictured) was a silent partner in what was to become General Mills?
- ... that although Shamokin Creek is a Warmwater Fishery, all of its twelve named tributaries are Coldwater Fisheries?
- ... that occupational hazards can be as diverse as infectious diseases, asbestos, poison ivy, and noise?
- ... that during World War II, Roman Gross was rescued from the Jewish Tarnopol Ghetto by Józef Regent, whom he in turn had rescued from deportation earlier in the war?
- ... that the Atlantic bamboo rat lives in bamboo thickets and makes loud squeals when alarmed?
- ... that activist Arif Yunus, a supporter of a peaceful resolution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, is now in jail?
- ... that the sugar plantation in Spreckelsville, Hawaii, US, was once the largest in the world?
- ... that Peter Maloney was one of the first Canadian political figures to come out as gay?
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 Malcolm Turnbull
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On this day...
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September 15: International Day of Democracy; Independence Day in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua (1821); Battle of Britain Day in the United Kingdom
 John Bull
- 1816 – HMS Whiting became wrecked on the Doom Bar, a treacherous shoal off the coast of Cornwall, England, that has caused over 600 known shipwrecks.
- 1831 – The John Bull (pictured), the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, ran for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
- 1935 – Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived German Jews of citizenship, and adopted a new national flag emblazoned with a swastika.
- 1944 – World War II: American and Australian forces landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Morotai, while the US Marines began their attempt to capture Peleliu.
- 1963 – A bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded in the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, US, killing four children and injuring at least 22 others.
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