7.30pm (AEDT) – Netball – Constellation Cup – Australia v New Zealand – Brisbane

8.45pm (AEDT) – Kathleen Folbigg interviewed on Channel 7’s Spotlight

Polish parliamentary election

Start of National Carers Week (until 21 October)

Global Handwashing Day

Breast Health Day

World Students’ Day

International Day of Rural Women

South by Southwest (SXSW) begins – Sydney (until 22 October)

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), PG Wodehouse (1881) and Michel Foucault (1926)
• the first ballet performance, Ballet Comique de la Reine, in Paris (1581)
• the execution of Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari for spying for Germany during WWI (1917)
• the premiere of I Love Lucy (1951)
• the publication of EB White’s Charlotte’s Web (1952)
• the ‘Balloon Boy’ fake news story (2009)