/ 23 February 2021

February the 23rd

12.30pm – Tony Mahar (National Farmers’ Federation), Jennifer Westacott (Business Council of Australia) and Peter Strong (Council of Small Business Organisations) address the National Press Club – Canberra

ABS Data Release – Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, July 2016 – June 2020

Birthdays for Aziz Ansari (1983), Emily Blunt (1983) and Dakota Fanning (1994)

Anniversary of:

  • Johannes Gutenberg printing the first-ever book using a printing press – the Bible (estimated date 1455)
  • The deaths of John Keats (1821) and Dame Nellie Melba (1931)
  • The Times of London publishing the world’s first classified ad (1886)
  • The first mass inoculation against polio (1954)
  • Rapper Eminem releasing his first major record album The Slim Shady LP(1999)

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