On Sunday, August 7, 1994 at the Tasty nightclub, one of Melbourne’s most popular queer venues, the music stopped and the police came to attack patrons.

On Friday 15 September 2000 the whole country held its breath as Cathy Freeman lit the cauldron at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, we would all hold our breath later for a different reason...

The Games of the XVI Olympiad were held in Melbourne. The so-called “friendly games” ended up turning very bloody - despite that, an enduring Olympic tradition started in Melbourne....

The day that Victoria separated from New South Wales was the day that Melburnians had the mother of all parties. They oiled a pig. Really.

The world’s biggest (and greatest, I think) war memorial is located in Western Victoria. It is 243 kilometres long and spans from Torquay to the City of Warrnambool.

Judge Starke when deciding if using a sorting hat was a fair way of deciding an election said that the hat itself wasn’t an issue.

The Parliament of Victoria accidentally gave (some) women the right to vote in elections for the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1863.

On 31 October 1923 Melbourne was rocked by riots and looting lasting 3 days. Trams were overturned, three people died, 78 stores looted, and a third of Victoria’s police was discharged.

Sure we like Melbourne’s Christmas Myer Windows, but at least once people flocked to see a dead body in a shop window on Little Bourke Street.

On 30 November 1983, Australia's CIA, the ASIS, held a terrorism and hostage training session at the Melbourne Sheraton Hotel, the problem was that they didn't tell the hotel they would be walking in armed to the teeth and wearing masks.

34 years ago, Picasso’s “Weeping Woman” was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria by (self proclaimed) Australian Cultural Terrorists and held for ransom in exchange for more arts funding- at the time it was the most valuable painting bought by an Australian gallery.