The first One-Day International event was played on the fifth day of a rain-aborted Test match between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971, to fill the time available and as compensation for the frustrated crowd.

Whitington noted that " Hele believes that had what followed occurred in Melbourne the crowd would have leapt the fence and belaboured the English captain, Larwood, and possibly the entire side ".

During the second Test between Sri Lanka and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Boxing Day 1995, Australian umpire Darrell Hair called Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan for throwing in front of a crowd of 55, 239.

* 11 June-Melbourne, Australia: The 1997 State of Origin series is wrapped up in Game II by New South Wales who defeat Queensland 15-14 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground before a crowd of 25, 105.

The fire was the biggest conflagration seen in London since the Great Fire of 1666, and an enormous crowd flocked to Westminster to witness the spectacle, including Lord Melbourne, the prime minister, and many of his cabinet.

A then-record crowd for a football match in Australia of 85, 513 – at the Melbourne Cricket Ground – witnessed the second leg of the World Cup qualifier against Iran, as well as Kewell's second goal.

The 1999 National Rugby League Grand Final, played on 26 September between the Melbourne Storm and the St George Illawarra Dragons, broke the rugby league world-record crowd previously set earlier in the season when 107, 999 came to watch the Storm defeat the Dragons 20 – 18.

30 September 2012 saw the largest ever rugby league crowd since reconfiguration when 82, 976 attended the NRL grand final to see the Melbourne Storm defeat the Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs 14 – 4.

Generally dances like the Melbourne Shuffle are not applied as a dance for battling, rather for dancing in the crowd at a rave party.

With a seated capacity of 51, 515 Football Park is the fourth largest Australian Rules Football stadium in Australia in terms of crowd capacity, behind Docklands Stadium in Melbourne ( 56, 347 ), Stadium Australia in Sydney ( 81, 500 ) and the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( 100, 018 ).

Sheedy agreed to stay for the rest of the season In Sheedy's last home game as coach against Richmond in Round 21 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, a near sell out crowd of 88, 468 people turned out to farewell him and James Hird.

However another heartbreaking loss to New Zealand, the replacement of halfback Peston Campbell – a crowd favourite – with former Melbourne halfback Brett Kimmorley, and a string of released players signaled trouble for 2003.

On 4 February 2005, they beat Australian side Canterbury Bulldogs 39 – 32 in front of 37, 028 spectators and on 29 February 2008, they were 11 – 4 winners over Melbourne Storm in the 2008 World Club Challenge in front of a crowd of 33, 204.

This was also the largest rugby league crowd in Australia until Game 2 of the 1994 State of Origin series when 87, 161 attended the game at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The third Test was Woodfull's first at his home ground in Melbourne, and despite scoring 107 in the second innings, the tourists won by three wickets in front of Test world record crowd.

The teams returned to Melbourne for the fifth Test, where Woodfull scored 102 and 35 in front of his home crowd as Australia won by five wickets.

Whitington noted that " Hele believes that had what followed occurred in Melbourne the crowd would have leapt the fence and belaboured the English captain ; Larwood, and possibly the entire side ".

Anti-conscriptionists, especially in Melbourne, were also able to mobilise large crowds with a meeting filling the Exhibition Building on 20 September ; 30, 000 people on the Yarra bank on Sunday 15 October, and 25, 000 the following week ; a " parade of women promoted by the United Women's No-Conscription Committee – an immense crowd of about 60, 000 people gathered at Swanston St between Guild Hall and Princes Bridge, and for upwards of an hour the street was a surging area of humanity ".

a great crowd assembled round the station at the Melbourne terminus, lining the whole of Flinders Street ".

A Soccer match between Melbourne Victory and the Newcastle Jets in 2008 pulled a crowd of 8, 500.

The first Rugby match at Kardinia Park occurred in 2012, Melbourne Rebels played Waikato Chiefs and attracted a crowd of 8, 000.

On 14 November 1998 Allen sang " Goosebumps " before a huge crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground – she retired following her performance which was released on the VHS album, Mushroom 25 Live ( December 1998 ).

They moved the event to the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds ( home of the Big Day Out ) the following year, but the event was not successful, drawing a crowd of only 10, 000.

In March 1967, the Seekers returned to Australia for a homecoming tour, which included a performance at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, attended by an estimated audience of 200, 000.

The largest public protest in Melbourne since the Vietnam War occurred on 10 November 1992, with an estimated 100, 000 people marching in opposition to the retrenchment of many workers and the large State budget cutbacks.

SBS Radio broadcasts in 68 languages in all Australian states, producing an estimated 13, 500 hours of Australian programming for its two frequencies in Sydney and Melbourne as well as its national network.

Since the fires, the surviving population outside the central highlands has been estimated at fewer than 100 by Melbourne Zoo threatened species biologist Dr. Dan Harley, with the entire distribution confined to a 70 by 80 kilometre area.

In May 1970, Cairns, as chair of the Vietnam Moratorium, led an estimated 100, 000 people in a " sit-down " demonstration in the streets of Melbourne.

The area around Port Phillip and the Yarra valley, on which the city of Melbourne now stands, was the home of the Kulin people, an alliance of several language groups of Indigenous Australians, whose ancestors had lived in the area for an estimated 31, 000 to 40, 000 years.

It is located in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and has an area of 81. 0 square kilometres and has a estimated population of 176, 069 people.

In March 2006, The Cat Empire participated in the opening ceremony of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, playing their own compositions for approximately an hour as the Games ' athletes entered the stadium, introducing the group to an estimated worldwide audience of one billion.

Linking Dynon and Footscray Roads in the Port of Melbourne precinct to Geelong Road in West Footscray, now known as the East-West road connection its cost is estimated at more than $ 2. 5 billion.

Located in Melbourne, its membership is estimated as involving between 300 and 400 people.

Although by the end of the 1950s television had expanded to also include Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, it was estimated that less than 5 % of the residents in Melbourne, and fewer than 1 % in Sydney owned a television set, which at the time cost, on average, six to ten weeks ' wages.

In 2007 it was reported that she sold two adjoining penthouses in Toorak, Melbourne over six months for an estimated A $ 9 million, a profit of A $ 4 million.

An estimated 70 % of houses are owned by absentee owners, most of whom live in and around Melbourne.

In 1963, a Melbourne university lecturer called Ray Brown estimated that 5 % of Australians lived in chronic poverty, with articles published in the radical magazine " Dissent " by David Scott, Leon Glezer, and Michael Keating coming to similar conclusions.

In the Fourth Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground, England batting second scored 513 to defeat Australia ( 98 & 258 ) by an innings and 157 runs.

Adelaide was not as badly hit as the larger gold-rush cities of Sydney and Melbourne, and silver and lead discoveries at Broken Hill provided some relief.

An AFL Premiership season match at Carrara Stadium on the Gold Coast, Queensland | Gold Coast between Adelaide Crows | Adelaide and Melbourne Football Club | Melbourne.

by Sir Alan Walsh at the CSIRO ( Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization ), Division of Chemical Physics, in Melbourne, Australia.

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

Australia holds the first day of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the start to the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

Paul Hester joined The Finn Brothers on stage for three songs at their Palais Theatre show in Melbourne at the end of 2004.

On 6 December 2008 Crowded House played the Homebake festival in Sydney, with warm up gigs at small venues in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.

On 14 March 2009 the band joined Neil's older son, Liam Finn, on stage for three songs at the Sound Relief concert in Melbourne.

The first of the matches with coloured uniforms was the WSC Australians in wattle gold versus WSC West Indians in coral pink, played at VFL Park in Melbourne on 17 January 1979.

* 1987 – Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills eight people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, before jumping to his death.

Formed in 1871 as a junior club and as a senior club in 1873, it is headquartered at the Essendon Recreation Reserve ( Windy Hill ) in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon, Australia but match day home games are played at Etihad Stadium or the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

During its early years in the Association, Essendon played its home matches at Flemington Hill, but moved to the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1881.

Essendon were known as the " Same Olds " ( as in " the same old Essendon ") in order to distinguish the Essendon VFL side ( that played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground ) to which this article refers, from the separate and unconnected Essendon VFA side ( that played at what was then the Essendon Cricket Ground ), which existed from 1900 to 1921.

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

Known as the " Dreadnoughts ", the team continued to play at the Essendon Cricket Ground until the expansion of the Jolimont Railway Yards into the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1922 meant that the " Same Olds " were looking for a new home.

Having played at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground from 1882 to 1921, and having won four VFA premierships ( 1891 – 1894 ) and four VFL premierships ( 1897, 1901, 1911, ( 1912 ) whilst there, Essendon were looking for a new home, and were offered grounds at the current Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, at Victoria Park, at Arden St, North Melbourne, and the Essendon Cricket Ground.