11.00pm (AEST) – Motorsport: F1, Dutch Grand Prix – Zandvoort, Netherlands

Start of Speech Pathology Week (on until 31 August) 

30th anniversary of Australian South Sea Islander National Recognition Day

Australian South Sea Islander National Recognition Day

Uruguay’s National Day

Birthdays for Gene Simmons (1949), 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)