ABS Data Release – Consumer Price Index, January; National Accounts, December quarter

Enlighten Festival begins (on until 17 March) – Canberra 

Sculpture by the Sea begins (on until 18 March) – Perth 

World Indoor Athletics Championships (on until 3 March) – Glasgow, Scotland

St David’s Day

World Compliment Day

Zero Discrimination Day 

World Horse Day 

Birthdays for actor Lupita Nyong’o (1983) and singers Kesha (1987) and Justin Bieber (1994)

Anniversary of: 

• the birthdays of Chopin (1810), Glenn Miller (1904), Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914)

• the start of the infamous Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts (1692)

• Yellowstone becoming the world’s 1st national park (1872)

• Henri Becquerel’s discovery of radioactivity (1896)

• the first publication of Captain America (1941)

• the release of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

• colour television transmissions begining in Australia (1975)