3.00pm (AEDT) – Men’s Rugby League – Pacific Cup Final – Kangaroos v New Zealand Kiwis – Waikato, New Zealand

7.30pm (AEDT) – Men’s Cricket – ICC Cricket World Cup Group Stage – England v Australia – Ahmedabad, India

PM Anthony Albanese arrives in China for talks with President Xi Jinping (until 7 November)

Tonga’s National Day

Roast Dinner Day – UK

Birthdays for Tony Abbott (1957) and Matthew McConaughey (1969)

Anniversary of:
• James Ritty patenting the first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his saloon in Dayton, Ohio (1879)
• archeologist Howard Carter discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt (1922)
• the premiere of the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
• the election of Republican Ronald Reagan (1980) and Barack Obama becoming the first African-American to be elected President of the US (2008)