11.00am (AEDT) – 63rd Annual Grammy Awards – broadcast live on Network 10

11.19pm (AEDT) – Oscar’s nominations announced

International Day Against Police Brutality

World Consumer Rights Day

Start of Brain Awareness Week and Kidney Health Week (on until 21 March)

World Speech Day

Birthdays for actor Eva Longoria (1975) and musician will.i.am (1975)

Sydneysiders Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fischer celebrate a wedding anniversary (2010)

Anniversary of the:
• death of Julius Caesar (44BC)
• birthday of Saint Nicholas (270)
• return of Christopher Columbus to Spain after his first voyage to the New World (1493)
• first test cricket match – Australia v England at the MCG in Melbourne (1877)
• wedding of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (1964)
• release of The Godfather (1972)
• Christchurch mosque shootings that saw 51 dead (2019)