3:30 am (AEST) – Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony (the Games are on until 11 August) and watch on Nine

5.00pm (AEST) – Super Netball preliminary final, West Coast Fever v Melbourne Vixens – Melbourne

7.00pm (AEST) – Olympics: Swimming, the Aussie swimmers begin their heats – Paris

9.45am (AEST) – The winner of the Young Archibald art prize will be announced – Sydney

NSW Labor Party Conference begins, with PM Anthony Albanese and Premier Chris Minns to speak (on until 28 July), in Sydney

And the Victorian Liberal Party State Council is on, with Coalition leader Peter Dutton and Victorian State Liberal leader John Pesutto to speak (until 28 July) – Melbourne

ASEAN post Ministerial Conference, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting – Laos 

Victory Day in North Korea, marking the end of the Korean War (1953)

Anniversary of :

• the first tobacco was brought to England from Virginia (1586)
• Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolating insulin at the University of Toronto (1921)
• Bugs Bunny’s cartoon debut in A Wild Hare (1940)
• the Korean War armistice (1953)