11.00am (AEDT) – The Australian Open tennis tournament gets underway – Melbourne

From 11.00am (AEDT) – Critics Choice Awards – Los Angeles

11.05am (AEDT) – Women’s Cricket ODI – Australia v Pakistan – Brisbane

Late afternoon – Extreme runner Erchana Murray-Bartlett to finish her 42.2km-a-day run over 150 days – Melbourne

World Economic Forum annual meeting – Davos, Switzerland

World Religion Day 

A birthday for Kate Moss (1974)

Anniversary of:
• the death of Australian photographer Frank Hurley (1962). Fascinating bloke…
• Muammar Gaddafi taking over the rule of Libya, 4 months after leading a coup against the monarchy (1970)
• the premiere of BBC’s landmark nature series Life on Earth presented by David Attenborough (1979)
• the US announcing the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait (1991)