5.00pm (AEST) – Women’s World Cup Quarter Final – Australia v France – Brisbane

8.30pm (AEST) – Women’s World Cup Quarter Final – England v Colombia – Sydney

Start of National Science Week (until 20 August)

International Youth Day

World Elephant Day

Ekka begins – Brisbane (until 20 August)

Birthdays for Karl Stefanovic (1974), Jesinta Franklin (1991) and Cara Delevingne (1992)

Anniversary of:
• American inventor Isaac Singer patenting the sewing machine (1851)
• Henry Ford’s company building the first Model T car (1908)
• Clarence Birdseye receiving a patent for his method for quick freezing food (1930)
• IBM launching its first Personal Computer (1981)
• the deaths of Cleopatra (30BC), Henry Fonda (1982) and Lauren Bacall (2014)