2.30pm (AEST) – Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe announces the latest interest rate decision

International Day of Charity

Be Late for Something Day

Birthdays for Michael Keaton (1951), India Hicks (1967), and Rose McGowan (1973)

Anniversary of:
• the First Opium War beginning in China (1839)
• Christine Hardt patenting the first modern brassiere (1889)
• the premieres of The Huckleberry Hound Show featuring Yogi Bear (1958) and The Muppet Show (1976)
• Freddie Mercury’s birthday (1946)
• the death of Mother Teresa (1997)
• Hurricane Irma becoming the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin region with winds of 280km/hour (2017)