6.00am (AEST) – Surfing: The Corona Fiji Pro kicks off (until 29 August) – Tavarua, Fiji

10.00am (AEST) – Former test cricketer Michael Slater will apply for bail. He’s charged with domestic violence offences – Brisbane 

From 12.00pm (AEST) – US President Joe Biden and the First Lady Dr Jill Biden will speak on the first night of the Democratic National Convention along with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (the DNC runs until 22 August) – Chicago  

6.30pm (AEST) – Rural Women’s Award announcement and gala dinner – Canberra

The AFR is holding its Higher Education Summit 2024 – Sydney 

World Mosquito Day 

Birthdays for Robert Plant (1948), David Walliams (1971), Amy Adams (1974), Andrew Garfield (1983), and Demi Lovato (1992)

Anniversary of:

• the first known African slaves arriving in North America (1619)
• US President Andrew Johnson formally declaring the end of the US Civil War (1866)
• Operation Danube, or the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary in response to the Prague Spring (1968)