PM Anthony Albanese is set to announce his new Ministry

Donate Life Week (until 4 August) 

World Hepatitis Day 

National Tree Day

Independence Day in Peru

Birthdays for Garfield creator Jim Davis (1945) and Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn (1952)

Anniversary of:

• the birthdays of author Beatrix Potter (1866) and former FLOTUS Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929)
• the invention of the hamburger in Connecticut (1900)
• the beginning of WWI, after Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia (1914)
• the release of Walt Disney’s Alice In Wonderland (1951)
• the Provisional Irish Republican Army calling an end to their 30-year armed campaign in Northern Ireland (2005)
• the Australian Defence Force MRH-90 Taipan helicopter crash during a training exercise in Queensland that killed 4 members (2023)