Squiz the Day / 02 October 2023
2 October 2023
Labor Day public holiday in the ACT, NSW and South Australia
King’s Birthday public holiday in Queensland
2.45am (AEDT) – Rugby World Cup – Australia v Portugal – France
7.05pm (AEDT) – Women’s Cricket – Second T20 – Australia v West Indies – Sydney
8.30pm (AEDT) – Nobel Prize for Medicine announced
Early voting opens for the 2023 referendum in the NT, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Oz
Term 4 begins for public schools in Victoria
International Day of Non-Violence
World Architecture Day
Birthdays for Don McLean (1945), Annie Leibovitz (1949), and Sting (1951)
Anniversary of:
• Rome becoming Italy’s capital after the country’s unification (1870)
• the publication of Beatrix Potter’s children’s classic The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
• the first comic strip featuring Charlie Brown which would later become Peanuts (1950)
• the Warsaw Uprising by Polish resistance fighters which saw some 250,000 people killed (1944)
• the murder of writer Jamal Khashoggi (2018)
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