Coolangatta Gold (until 14 November) – Coolangatta Beach, Queensland

Start of Australian Food Safety Week (on until 20 November)

World Kindness Day

Birthdays for actor Whoopi Goldberg (1955) and TV host Jimmy Kimmel (1967)

Anniversary of:
• the release of Walt Disney’s animated film Fantasia (1940)
• US spacecraft Voyager 1 taking the first close-up pictures of Saturn (1980)
• the release of Eminem’s Lose Yourself, which would become the first rap song to win Academy Award (2002)