14 June - A rail service between Sydney and Melbourne commences when the NSW and Victorian rail systems are joined at Albury.
In 2000 the station sacked four of its radio presenters and began networking with the StarFM network hub in Albury.
Devis died in 1816 and was buried at Albury Old Church.
Australian Football was introduced to the Riverina region of New South Wales in Wagga Wagga in 1881 with a match between sides from Wagga Wagga and Albury.
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Notable players from the Riverina include: Australian Football Hall of Fame Legend Haydn Bunton, Sr. (Albury), who was the first player born in New South Wales to win the Brownlow Medal and the Sandover Medal, in 1931 and 1938 respectively; Shane Crawford (Finley), became the second player from New South Wales to the win the Brownlow in 1999; and Wayne Carey (Wagga Wagga), won the Leigh Matthews Trophy twice in the 1990s.
He was born in Albury, New South Wales, and moved to Seaford (in what is now the Division of Dunkley) as a child.
On 27 February, the NSW Liberal Premier Tom Lewis appointed Cleaver Bunton, a former long-serving Mayor of Albury, who was not affiliated with any political party.
It is said that both names for the plant derive from Jane Paterson or Patterson, an early settler of the country near Albury.
Her funeral took place at the Old Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Albury Park, Guildford, Surrey, on 1 October 2012.
While not pursuing a full time career in rugby, he subsequently made cameo appearances at several tournaments, including the Ettamogah Pub Sevens competition in Albury, the Hong Kong Tens and the World Classics in Bermuda.
Early in 1822, his preaching in London so impressed the banker and parliamentarian Henry Drummond (1786–1860) that Drummond appointed M‘Neile to the living of the parish of Albury Park, Surrey, from where M‘Neile’s first collection of sermons, Seventeen Sermons, etc.
Mr. Hume was the first to see the river, near the site of Albury and named it "the Hume," (now the Murray River) after his father, the commissary.
The tour visited Sydney twice for the return season along with Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Newcastle, Wollongong, Adelaide, Perth and regional towns Albury, Warragul and Ballarat.
NSW City Origin Debut: 2011 – NSW City Origin v NSW Country Origin, Lavington Sports Ground, Albury, New South Wales, 6 May.
Lisa Ho (born 1960) is an Australian fashion designer born in Albury, on the New South Wales and Victorian border.
On 16 March 1985, Edmunds was arrested on unrelated charges of indecent exposure while parked in his station wagon in Albury, New South Wales.
Timothy Peter Van Berkel (born June 29, 1984, Albury is an Australian triathlete and three time winner of the Long Distance Triathlon (2008, Busselton, 2010 and 2011 in Copenhagen).
The New south Wales premier, Tom Lewis felt that this convention only applied to vacancies caused by deaths or ill-health, and arranged for the legislature to elect Cleaver Bunton, former mayor of Albury and an independent.
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On 11 November 1998, a Kendell Airlines Saab 340 turboprop aircraft (registered VH-LPI) went into a dangerous stall situation with the two pilots losing control for around 10 seconds due to icing conditions that were experienced near Lake Eildon en route a scheduled flight from Albury to Melbourne.
The Balfour Baronetcy, of Albury Lodge in Albury in the County of Hertford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 February 1911 for Robert Balfour, Liberal Member of Parliament for Glasgow Partick from 1906 to 1922.
Located at the Midland Highway level crossing close to the centre of town, the station is served by both V/Line Albury-Wodonga line and NSW TrainLink Melbourne - Sydney passenger services.
On August 9, 1945, just three days after the bombing of Hiroshima, Sweeney's crew, with Albury as co-pilot, took off in the B-29 Superfortress, nicknamed the Bockscar, which would drop the atomic bomb known as the "Fat Man" on the city of Nagasaki.
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Albury stated repeatedly during his life that he did not have any remorse for the attack or his role in the attack on Nagasaki, noting that many more lives would have been lost if the United States had launched a full invasion of mainland Japan.
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On August 6, 1945, Albury witnessed the first atomic bombing of Hiroshima as pilot of the instrument observation plane, The Great Artiste, which accompanied the Enola Gay commanded by Tibbets.
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Tibbets initially organized two air crews: one headed by himself with Robert A. Lewis as co-pilot (cockpit crew of the Enola Gay during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima), the other headed by Sweeney with Albury as the co-pilot.
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Charles Donald Albury (October 12, 1920 – May 23, 2009) was an American military aviator who participated in both atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
, moderated by Hugh Boyd M‘Neile (1795-1879), at his friend Henry Drummond's seat, Albury Park at Albury, Surrey concerning unfulfilled prophecy, followed by an almost exclusive study of the prophetical books and especially of the Apocalypse, and by several series of sermons on prophecy both in London and the provinces.
The Albury electorate has since reverted to its traditional tendencies—the current Liberal member, Greg Aplin, was returned with more than 60 per cent of the vote in 2003, and Labor finished fourth behind Aplin and two independents.
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Albury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, currently held by Greg Aplin.
The Albury region had long been a settlement area for Catholic Germans, particularly farmers and wine growers from the Rhineland, who had begun to melt in with the Anglo-Celtic population.
In 1974 the area was included in the area to be developed as part of a proposed greater Albury-Wodonga region, proposed by the Whitlam Government as part of its national decentralisation program, but these plans were dismantled by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's successor, Malcolm Fraser.
The station buildings were opened in 1869 with arrival of the railway from Sydney, which was opened by the Governor Lord Belmore (an event commemorated by Belmore Park in the centre of the city), along with the completion of the line from Sydney to Albury in 1881 (and the connection with Victorian Railways in 1883), was a boom to the town.
In 2001, when Australia's regional television stations were centralising, he became the Administration Manager for the University of New South Wales School of Rural Health in Albury and Wagga Wagga.
Lavington Square Shopping Centre opened in the late 70's in the Albury suburb of Lavington, NSW.
Their car crashed where the Sydney-Melbourne road crossed the Sydney-Melbourne railway north of Albury, leading to the crossing being named after Billy Hughes; it was later replaced by the Billy Hughes Bridge.
North albury also has its own local football club located in the middle of north albury, they are the North Albury Football Club.
The only passenger services using the line operate on the standard gauge, being the daily NSW TrainLink XPT, the Great Southern Railway operated The Overland and standard gauge Albury-Wodonga V/Line rail service.
In 2007 the new Hume Highway bridge built over the Murray River as part of the Albury bypass was named the Spirit of Progress in recognition of the former train service.
One advertisement in Walkabout magazine in November 1953, headed 'Trains we are proud of', promoted H 220 as "Australia's mightiest engine" and its nightly service hauling the 9.25 Albury Interstate Fast Freight.
Eventually the NSW system was extended southwards from its originating terminus in Sydney to Albury, but the terminals of the broad and standard gauge systems remained separated by the Murray River and a few miles of its surrounding swampy flatlands and billabongs.
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The connection through to the standard gauge system across the Murray River to Albury was not completed for a few years, partly because the New South Wales standard gauge system had not yet extended as far south as Albury.
The Albury/Wodonga market underwent significant change in 2005 when Macquarie Southern Cross Media bought 105.7 The River from RG Capital Radio Network, and 2AY and Star FM from the DMG Radio Australia.