Adelaide Cup Day 

Canberra Day 

Eight Hours Day (Tasmania)

Labour Day in (Victoria)

9.00am (AEDT) – AFR Live Business Summit 2024 (on until 12 March)

11.00am (AEDT) – The 2024 Oscars – Los Angeles, and broadcast live on Seven/7Plus

Ramadan (Islamic Holy Month) begins in Australia (on until 9 April) 

Australian Cider Day 

World Plumbing Day

Birthdays for Rupert Murdoch (1931), Benji and Joel Madden (1979) 

Anniversary of:

• Liberal Party leader John Howard being sworn in as PM (1996)

• the Madrid train bombings which killed 193 people (2004)

• an earthquake and tsunami in Japan that triggered the 2nd-worst nuclear accident in history at Fukushima nuclear plant (2011) 

• Chinese President Xi Jinping being appointed president for life (2018)