12.30pm (AEDT) – Group Chief Executive of munitions company NIOA, Robert Nioa, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

ABS Data Release – Marriages and Divorces, 2022

World AIDS Day

National Water Safety Day

Bartender Appreciation Day

International Sweater Vestival

Birthdays for Woody Allen (1935), Bette Midler (1945), Janelle Monáe (1985) and Zoe Kravitz (1988)

Anniversary of:
• the Ford Motor Company establishing the world’s first moving assembly line (1913)
• the invention of modern-day Bingo by American toymaker Edwin S Lowe (1929)
• Hugh Hefner publishing the first edition of Playboy magazine featuring Marilyn Monroe as the centrefold (1953)
• the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama (1955)
• the signing of the Antarctic Treaty (1959)
• Papua New Guinea gaining self-governance from Australia (1973)
• the earliest traceable patient, a 55yo man, developing symptoms of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China (2019)