Friday

2:00 (AEDT) the Funeral of MP Peta Murphy – Livestream 

ABS Data Release – National Health Survey: First Results 2022; Overseas Migration, 2022-23 financial year

Company shareholder meeting – NAB

QLD Year 12 students get their ATAR results

Last day of Term 4 for public schools in the ACT, the NT, and South Oz

Anniversary of:

• Gone with the Wind’s premiere (1939)
• the Soviet Union’s Venera 7 becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus) (1970)
• the deaths of musician and composer Glenn Miller (1944), animator and producer Walt Disney (1966) and actress Joan Fontaine (2013)

Saturday

Independence Day in Kazakhstan

Day of Reconciliation in South Africa 

Bahrain’s National Day

Victory Day – Bangladesh

Anniversary of:

• the Boston Tea Party that saw American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbour (1773)
• the birthdays of composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770) and author Jane Austen (1775)
• Shirley Temple announcing her retirement from films, aged 22yo (1950)
• Shannen Doherty (aka Brenda) being fired from TV series Beverly Hills 90210 (1993)
• the jumping castle tragedy at Devonport Public School in Tasmania that killed 6 children (2021)

Sunday

Bhutan’s National Day

Pope Francis’ birthday (1936)

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers 

National Maple Syrup Day in North America 

Anniversary of:

• PM Harold Holt disappearing while swimming off a beach near Portsea, Victoria (1967)
• The Simpsons premiering on the telly (1989)
• Kim Jong-un coming to power in North Korea after the death of his father Kim Jong-il (2011)