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New Zealander Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg led the allied troops on Crete

• 1941 – The Battle of Crete, involving the Australian 6th Division, begins.
• 1997 – A Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission report calls for an apology for an early government policy of removing Aboriginal children from their parents and placing them in institutions.