From 3.00pm (ASWT) – World Rugby Sevens Series kicks off (on until 28 January) – Perth, and broadcast live on Stan 

Australia Day public holiday

A birthday for Ellen DeGeneres (1958)

Anniversary of:

• the Rum Rebellion, the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history (1808)

• the deaths of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and 7 others in a helicopter crash (2020)