Term 3 begins for public schools in Victoria and Queensland

Independence Day in the Bahamas

Gina Rinehart family trial begins in WA’s Supreme Court – Perth

ABS Data Release – Monthly Business Turnover Indicator, May

Anniversary of:
• Lady Godiva riding naked on horseback through Coventry to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes. According to the legend, anyway… (1040)
• the beginning of the Battle of Britain during WWII (1940)
• the Rolling Stones scoring their 1st US #1 single with (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (1965)
• the swearing-in of Boris Yeltsin as the first elected President of the Russian Federation (1991)
• the release of Coldplay’s debut album Parachutes (2000)
• British tabloid News of the World publishing its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a phone-hacking scandal (2011)