On This Day... The City of Melbourne was named after the British Prime Minister in 1837, Flemington Race Course held its first Race Meeting in 1840, TIME Magazine went on sale for the first time in 1923, The Star Spangled Banner became the US National Anthem in 1931, Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1932, John Tonkin, 69, became the Prime Minister of Australia in 1971, Steve Fosset, the billionaire, became the first person to fly solo around the world without stopping to refuel in 2005, and Toilet Paper sales soared across Australia in 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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