Portal:Australia/Anniversaries/January/January 20
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![Headstone of Captain Moonlite at Gundagai cemetery](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Gundagai_cemetery_Moonlight_headstone.jpg/100px-Gundagai_cemetery_Moonlight_headstone.jpg)
- 1880 – Andrew George Scott, known as bushranger Captain Moonlite, was hanged in Sydney.
- 1942 – Charles Groves Wright Anderson wins a Victoria Cross at Muar River, Malaya.
- 1944 – 17 people are killed at Brooklyn, New South Wales when a mail train and a bus collide at a level crossing.
- 2003 – Death of John Halfpenny, aged 68, trade union leader.