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23.01.2022 #OnThisDay in history, November 27: 1823 - Victorian Premier James Service, after whom the west Wimmera township of Serviceton is named, was born. 1880 - Sir Ralph Freeman, designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, is born. 1895 - Alfred Nobel draws up his last will and testament, pledging his enormous wealth toward the betterment of humanity.... 1931 - Don Bradman scores 200 on the first day of the first Test Cricket match to be played at the Gabba in Brisbane. 1970 - Australian wicketkeeper Rodney Marsh makes his Test cricket debut against England at the Gabba in Brisbane. 1979 - The first day-night one-day cricket international is played at the Sydney Cricket Ground between Australia and the West Indies. 1998 - United States nuclear weapons begin being tested for possible year 2000 problems. 1999 - The Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. 2014 - Cricketer Phillip Hughes dies two days after being struck on the head by a bouncer, prompting the ‘Put Out Your Bats’ campaign (below), which was a way for cricketers around the world to pay their respects to Hughes. See more

20.01.2022 #OnThisDay in history, November 30: 1835 - American author and satirist, Mark Twain, is born. 1854 - Peter Lalor is elected to lead the gold-diggers in the movement in Ballarat that would lead to the uprising known as the Eureka Stockade. 1874 - Winston Churchill is born. Amongst many other achievements, Churchill oversaw the Gallipoli Campaign as the British First Lord of the Admiralty during the early years of World War One and served as British Prime Minister during World ...War Two. 1878 - ‘Advance Australia Fair’, the song that would become Australia's National Anthem over a century later, is performed for the first time in public. 1920 - The first aeroplane to cross the Australian continent from east to west departs Melbourne. A converted World War I bomber, an Airco DH.4, piloted by Captain Francis S Briggs and J Howard along with the aircraft's owner, Clement John de Garis, who wished to inspect a property he had purchased at Kendenup in Western Australia, took 18 hours, and arrived in Perth on 2 December. 1928 - Australian cricket icon Donald Bradman makes his Test debut, against England in which he scored 18 and 1. 1934 - The English Class A3 4472 ‘Flying Scotsman’ becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching the speed of 100 miles per hour. 1958 - Australian polar explorer, pilot, soldier, geographer, and photographer Sir George Hubert Wilkins passed away. He became the only official Australian photographer from any war to receive a combat medal when he was awarded the Military Cross for rescuing wounded soldiers during the World War One Third Battle of Ypres, and he earned a bar to his Military Cross when he assumed command of a group of American soldiers who had lost their officers during the Battle of the Hindenburg Line. His many other achievements included narrowly failing to be the first to pass under the North Pole in a submarine and pioneering flights over both the Arctic and Antarctic. 1982 - Michael Jackson's second solo album, ‘Thriller’ is released worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history. See more

18.01.2022 Tomorrow, Tuesday 1st December 2020, has been declared a day of Total Fire Ban in the Mallee and Wimmera districts. No fires can be lit or be allowed to remain alight in the open air from 12:01am on Tuesday 1st December until 11:59pm Tuesday 1st December. (Map accurate at 3.30pm Monday)

18.01.2022 #OnThisDay in history, November 29: 1314 - King Philip IV, who orders the suppression of the Knights Templar, dies in a hunting accident. 1854 - The Oath of Allegiance was stated by Peter Lalor and sworn by miners at Bakery Hill in Ballarat. ('We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties') This forms part of the events that led to the Eureka Stockade rebellion early the following month. 1876 - The Queensland flag is... officially adopted. 1898 - C S Lewis, author of the 'Narnia' series of books, is born. 1948 - Australian Prime minister Ben Chifley launches the first mass-produced Australian car, the Holden FX. 1954 - The Dimboola Fire Brigade outclassed 27 brigades to win the grand aggregate at the Wimmera and Western District Fire Brigades’ Association demonstration that was held on the Horsham City Oval. Other brigades to compete included Ballarat City, Geelong City, Swan Hill, Hamilton, Geelong North, Willaura, Horsham, Kaniva, Warracknabeal, Coleraine, Murton, Nhill, Minyip, and Stawell. 1963 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 1970 - Recreated goldfields town, Sovereign Hill in Ballarat, is officially opened. 1972 - Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game. 1990 - The United Nations Security Council passes 'Resolution 678', authorising military intervention if Iraq does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait by 15 January 1991. 2015 - Australia wins the first day-night Test which was played against New Zealand in Adelaide, adding to their record of having also won the first Test, the first One Day International, the first day-night One Day International and the first T20 International. 2015 - Australian association football (soccer) player James Marston passed away. Marston became the first Australian to appear in an English FA Cup Final when he played for Preston North End in their 1954 defeat to West Bromwich Albion. He also played 37 international soccer matches for Australia, and was manager for the national team for two seasons. See more

17.01.2022 Victoria’s fire services have today launched a new platform for applying for fire permits and registering burn-offs. Read more - https://read.dimboolacourier.com.au/5204

16.01.2022 #OnThisDay in history, December 1: 1876 - Aboriginal stockman Sam Isaacs and teenager Grace Bussell rescue about 40 people from a stricken steamship off Western Australia. 1942 - Ordinary Seaman Edward ‘Teddy’ Sheean performs an Extraordinary act of bravery by strapping himself to a gun and firing on Japanese aircraft straffing sailors abandoning their damaged ship. Sheean died when he went down with the ship, but his actions saved many lives. Today the Australian Governor-...General will present the insignia of the Victoria Cross for Australia to the Sheean family, making him the first member of the Royal Australian Navy to receive this award. 1959 - Twelve nations, including Australia, sign the Antarctica Treaty, which bans military activity and weapons testing on that continent. 1987 - Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen is forced to resign as Queensland's longest-serving Premier. 1990 - The final wall of rock is drilled out, to join the two halves of the Channel Tunnel which now links Britain and France under the English Channel. 1997 - Eight of the known planets in the solar system form a rare alignment from west to east. 2004 - Two years after being destroyed by bushfires, Mount Stromlo Observatory in the ACT becomes fully operational again. See more

16.01.2022 Today’s Total Fire Ban for the Wimmera and Mallee forecast districts has been revoked, however wind speeds of almost 50 km/h continue to be observed at Horsham. Read more - https://read.dimboolacourier.com.au/5211

15.01.2022 A Total Fire Ban (TFB) has been declared for the Mallee, Wimmera and Northern Country regions tomorrow, 28th November 2020. https://read.dimboolacourier.com.au/5202

13.01.2022 #OnThisDay in history, December 2: 1642 - Members of Dutch explorer Abel Tasman's crew become the first Europeans to set foot on Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). 1697 - St Paul's Cathedral is consecrated in London. 1911 - Douglas Mawson departs Hobart to commence his Antarctic exploration.... 1924 - Dimboola’s Soldiers’ Memorial Hall (below), now the Secondary College’s library, is officially opened. 1932 - The infamous ‘Bodyline’ cricket series between Australia and England begins with the first Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground. 1970 - The numbat is officially listed as endangered. 1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, a role he would fill until 2008. He had previously been Prime Minister of Cuba between 1959 and 1976. 1977 - The first day of Kerry Packer’s ‘World Series Cricket’ was played at VFL Park in Melbourne where barely 200 spectators were present to watch Australia take on West Indies. On an uninspiring first day, Australia were bowled out for 256, although this was a better performance than the official Australia side, which managed just 166 against India in Brisbane. 2004 - The Dimboola Community Bendigo Bank branch opened, with a party in Lloyd Street. 2015 - The Dimboola Courier changed ownership at the end of its fifth year online. See more

13.01.2022 A Victoria Police operation focussing on road safety since the opening of the metro-regional border has returned a disappointingly large number of road users flouting the rules. Read more - https://read.dimboolacourier.com.au/5207

11.01.2022 Residents of the Hindmarsh Shire East Ward are being reminded that voting in the by-election closes on Friday. Read more - https://read.dimboolacourier.com.au/5203

09.01.2022 #OnThisDay in history, November 28: 1660 - The founding meeting is held prior to the formation of the Royal Society, which is the oldest national scientific institution in the world. 1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation. 1893 - Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election.... 1919 - Keith Miller, considered to be one of Australia’s best Test cricket all-rounders, is born. 1923 - Mr Tom Parker of Peppers Plain pays 950 guineas, an Australian record, for a Clydesdale mare. 1932 - The 'Dog on the Tuckerbox' statue at Gundagai is unveiled. 1964 - Mariner 4, the first spacecraft to transmit close range images of Mars, is launched. 1979 - 257 people are killed when an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight crashes into Mount Erebus in Antarctica. 1990 - The Conservative Party in the United Kingdom chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as the leader and Prime Minister. 1992 - Painter Sidney Nolan passed away. Nolan spent time in Dimboola during the Second World War. Below is a Nolan mural at the Dimboola Memorial Secondary College. 2012 - ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’, the first of the Hobbit film series, premieres in Wellington, New Zealand. See more

04.01.2022 The two senior West Wimmera Warriors cricket teams met with mixed results in round four of Horsham Cricket Association matches on Saturday, with a narrow loss by the A grade, but an emphatic win by the C grade team. FInd all the scores here - https://read.dimboolacourier.com.au/5205