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The Royal Canberra Hospital implosion was a failed building implosion that killed one person and injured nine others. The implosion occurred on 13 July 1997, when the city's superseded hospital buildings at Acton Peninsula on Lake Burley Griffin (that formerly constituted the Royal Canberra Hospital) were demolished to make way for the National Museum of Australia.

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The Royal Canberra Hospital implosion was a failed building implosion that killed one person and injured nine others. The implosion occurred on 13 July...

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Valley Hospital and the Royal Canberra Hospital were amalgamated in 1991, and was renamed Canberra Hospital in 1996. It is the main teaching hospital for...

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Royal Canberra Hospital was the first hospital in Canberra, the capital of Australia. It opened in 1914 (a year after the planned city was opened) on the...

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"Katie Bender's family commemorate 20 years since Royal Canberra Hospital implosion". The Canberra Times. Archived from the original on 30 December 2023...

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Katie Bender may refer to: Katie Bender, victim of the Royal Canberra Hospital implosion Katie Bender (filmmaker) (born 1985), Australian film producer...

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James Hospital. Archived from the original on 28 April 2010. Retrieved 23 April 2010. "15 years since hospital implosion tragedy". The Canberra Times...

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massive explosion shook Cairns". ABC News. "15 years since hospital implosion tragedy". Canberra Times. 13 July 2012. "Durst still angry at Big Day Out over...

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deceased 2003 Canberra bushfires – ACT Supreme Court compensation – representing various landholders Royal Canberra Hospital implosion – damages claim...

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History of the Australian Capital Territory

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controversy over the funding of the Canberra Stadium and an accidental fatality caused by the Royal Canberra Hospital implosion. Labor have won the three elections...

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Acton Peninsula

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118°E / -35.291; 149.118 Gordon Taylor (13 July 2017). "Royal Canberra Hospital implosion: 20 years on the lessons are still relevant, family rep says"...

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1997 in Australia

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autonomy. 13 July — A crowd of over 100,000 people watches the Royal Canberra Hospital implosion. A 12-year-old girl, Katie Bender, is killed instantly and...

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narrowly failed). She also vocally opposed the demolition of the Royal Canberra Hospital, preferring that the buildings be reused, and later, once the demolition...

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successful effort on an alternative design proposed by John von Neumann, an implosion-type nuclear weapon, which was called Fat Man. A variant of the gun-type...

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enriched uranium gun-type fission weapon, and "Fat Man", a plutonium implosion-type nuclear weapon. The 509th Composite Group of the United States Army...

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Justice. Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology. ISBN 0-642-14605-5. OCLC 499960731. Retrieved 10 November 2019. Greville, P. J. (2002). The Royal Australian...

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co-founder and chief executive officer of OceanGate (Titan submersible implosion) (b. 1962) Charley Scales, 85, football player (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh...

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(December 6, 2020). ""He's Radioactive": Inside Johnny Depp's Self-Made Implosion". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on December 11, 2020...

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if the initial plosive is /k/). The voiced plosives are pronounced as implosives [ɓ, ɗ] by most speakers, but this feature is weak in educated speech,...

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Minister of Australia – official website". Transcript of press conference, Canberra. Australian Government. Archived from the original on 26 February 2011...

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by deliberate partial flooding to acquire acoustic data on submarine implosions and that no torpedoes were used. Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three...

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