5.45am (AEDT) – Men’s Soccer Friendlies – Socceroos v England – London

10.05am (AEDT) – Women’s Cricket – 3rd ODI – Australia v West Indies – Melbourne

4.15pm (AEDT) – Horse Racing – The Everest Race – Sydney

6.00pm (AEDT) – Women’s Rugby League – Pacific Championship – Australia v New Zealand – Townsville

8.10pm (AEDT) – Men’s Rugby League – Pacific Cup – Australia v Samoa – Townsville

Voice referendum

New Zealand election

World Standards Day – so it’s not a day to drop them…

Birthdays for Ralph Lauren (1939) and Usher (1978)

Anniversary of:
• the publication of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) and AA Milne’s Winnie the Pooh (1926)
• Martin Luther King Jr winning the Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
• the premiere of reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007)
• the deaths of Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson (1958), actor Errol Flynn (1959) and crooner Bing Crosby (1977)