9.00am (AEDT) – Men’s cricket – 2nd Test of Australia v New Zealand – Christchurch 

1.00pm (ACDT) – Lowitja O’Donoghue’s State Funeral – Adelaide

International Women’s Day

10th anniversary of the disappearance of flight MH370 

Birthdays for The Squiz (we turned 7) and actors Freddie Prinze Jr (1976) and James Van Der Beek (1977)

Anniversary of:

• Henry VIII being recognised as supreme head of Church in England (1531)

• the founding of the New York Stock Exchange (1817)

• the marriage of Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis (1952)

• the disappearance of flight MH370 with 227 passengers and 12 crew onboard (2014)