12.30pm (AEST) – President of the Australian Local Government Association Linda Scott addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

It’s Budget Day for NSW

Birthdays for Meryl Streep (1949), Elizabeth Warren (1949), Cyndi Lauper (1953) and Dan Brown (1964)

Anniversary of:
• Galileo Galilei being forced to recant his view that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope (1633)
• Anniversary of then Princess Elizabeth meeting future husband Prince Philip of Greece (1939)
• Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union during WWII (1941)
• the deaths of Judy Garland (1969) and Fred Astaire (1987)