Squiz the Day / 25 August 2023
25 August 2023
11.00am (AEST) – State Funeral for former Queensland Premier and Treasurer Michael John Ahern
6.00pm (AEST) – Men’s Basketball – FIBA World Cup – Australia v Finland – Okinawa, Japan
Uruguay’s National Day
Australian South Sea Islander National Recognition Day
Company Results – Ardent Leisure Group; Wesfarmers
Birthdays for Gene Simmons (1949), Martin Amis (1949), Tim Burton (1958), Billy Ray Cyrus (1961), Alexander Skarsgård (1976), and Blake Lively (1987)
Anniversary of:
• Englishwoman Alicia Thornton becoming the first female jockey (1804)
• the birthday of the best Bond (fight us…) Sean Connery (1930)
• the liberation of Paris by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation (1944)
• the release of the first package of pre-cooked instant noodles by Momofuku Ando (1958)
• the Voyager 1, which was launched in 1977, becoming the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space (2012)
• the deaths of Friedrich Nietzsche (1900), Truman Capote (1984), Neil Armstrong (2012) and John McCain (2018)
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