Squiz the Day / 27 February 2024
27 February 2024
11.00pm (AEDT) – The Republican and Democratic presidential primaries in Michigan
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency will publish the first set of private sector employer gender pay gap reports
Company results – Alumina; Coles; Woodside
Fair Trade Fortnight (until March 12th)
Anniversary of:
- the birthdays of author John Steinbeck (1902) and actor Elizabeth Taylor (1932)
- the world’s first women’s magazine Ladies’ Mercury published in London (1693)
- the discovery of carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory (1940)
- General Hafez al-Assad becoming head of Syria via military coup starting the family’s rule over the country (1969)
- the deaths of Louis Vuitton (1892), Ivan Pavlov (1936), Spike Milligan (2002), Fred Rogers (2003) and Leonard Nimoy (2015)
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