12.30pm (AEDT) – Professor Rod Sims and Professor Ross Garnaut address the National Press Club on Australian climate and energy policy

Company results – Comm Bank

Indonesian General Election

Ash Wednesday (Lent begins)

Valentine’s Day

International Book Giving Day 

Library Lovers Day 

Birthdays for Michael Bloomberg (1942), Simon Pegg (1970), Cadel Evans (1977), and Freddie Highmore (1992)

Anniversary of:

• the death of Captain James Cook (1779)

• the release of the original Dracula film starring Bela Lugosi (1931)

• the patenting of the first microchip (called “micro on a chip”) by Texas Instruments (1978)

• the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, which prompted widespread protests against gun violence in the US (2018)