12.30pm (AEST) – Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China Xiao Qian addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

Ecuador’s National Day

Ecca public holiday – Brisbane

Company Results – Commonwealth Bank; Mirvac; Mineral Resources

Birthdays for actor Antonio Banderas (1960), Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins (1962), and reality star/businesswoman Kylie Jenner (1997)

Anniversary of:
• the Louvre palace officially opening in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts (1793)
• the marriage of Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf (1912)
• the release of Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall album (1979)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg being sworn in as a US Supreme Court Justice (1993)