6.00am (AEDT) – Soccer – FIFA World Cup Semi-Finals – Argentina v Croatia – Qatar

9.30am (AEDT) – Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe delivers a keynote address at the AusPayNet Annual Summit – Sydney

Fiji general election

ABS Data Release – Employee earnings, August

Company AGM – Westpac

Monkey Day

Birthdays for Sophie Monk (1979) and Vanessa Hudgens (1988)

Anniversary of:
• the deaths of Vlad the Impaler (1476) and George Washington (1799)
• the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting where 20 children and 6 adults were killed (2012)