2.55pm (AEST) – Men’s Rugby: Wallabies v Springboks – Brisbane, and watch on Stan Sport

National Science Week (on until 18 August)

Ekka begins – Brisbane (until 18 August)

City2Surf in Sydney

Ecuador’s National Day

World Lion Day

International Vlogging Day

International Update Your Bio Day 

Birthdays for Antonio Banderas (1960), Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins (1962), and Kylie Jenner (1997)

Anniversary of:

• the Louvre Palace officially opening in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts (1793)
• the marriage of Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf (1912)
• the release of Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall album (1979)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg being sworn in as a US Supreme Court Justice (1993)