9.00am (AEDT) – The Australian Electoral Commission releases the annual financial disclosure returns from MPs and Senators 

ABS Data Release – Building Approvals, December 2023; International Trade Price Indexes, December 2023 

Beginning of Ovarian Cancer Month 

Start of African-American History Month in the US 

World Hijab Day

A birthday for Harry Styles (1994)

Anniversary of:

• the arrest of Martin Luther King Jr and 700 protestors in Selma, Alabama (1965)

• the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster killing all 7 astronauts aboard (2003)