Friday
11:10am (ACDT) – the Tour Down Under begins with the women’s race in Hahndorf, South Australia – you can stream it live 7Plus

ABS Data Release – Monthly Household Spending Indicator, November

Birthdays for author Haruki Murakami (1949), Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (1964), singer Zayn Malik (1993)

Anniversary of:

• Josef Dzhugashvili first using the pseudonym Stalin (“man of steel”) in a letter penned to the newspaper Social Democrat (1913)

• the founding of Timely Comics (later Marvel) by New York publisher Martin Goodman (1939)

• the death of British crime novelist Agatha Christie (1976)

• an earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 200,000 people (2010)

Saturday
2024 Taiwan General Election

Birthdays for actors Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), Patrick Dempsey (1966) and Orlando Bloom (1977)

Anniversary of:

• the death of Antony Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdon/Princess Margaret’s ex (2017)

• the false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike on Hawaii (2018)

Sunday
11:00am (AEDT) – the first matches of the Australian Open 2024 begin

World Logic Day 

Anniversary of:

• the first successful caesarean section operation (1794)

• the deaths of Lewis Carroll (1898), Dorothea Mackellar (1968) and Alan Rickman (2016)

• the establishment of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1960)

• the birthday of Joy McKean, the grand lady of Australian country music (1930)

Monday

1:00am (AEDT) – Denmark’s new King and Queen will be proclaimed