12.30pm (AEDT) – Former PM Paul Keating addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

7.30pm (AEDT) – Men’s Basketball – Grand Final Game 5 – Sydney Kings v New Zealand Breakers – Sydney

9.00pm (AEDT) – World Men’s Baseball Classic Quarter-Final – Australia v Cuba – Tokyo

ABS Data Release – Overseas Arrivals and Departures, January

NAPLAN testing begins at schools around Oz

World Consumer Rights Day

International Day Against Police Brutality

World Speech Day

The World’s Greatest Shave begins (until 19 March)

Season 3 of Ted Lasso released on Apple TV+

Birthdays for actor Eva Longoria (1975) and musician will.i.am (1975)

Anniversary of:
• the death of Julius Caesar (44BC)
• the birthday of Saint Nicholas (270) and Ruth Bader Gingburgs (1933)
• the return of Christopher Columbus to Spain after his first voyage to the New World (1493)
• the first Test cricket match – Australia v England at the MCG in Melbourne (1877)
• the wedding of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton (1964)
• the release of The Godfather (1972)
• the Christchurch mosque shootings that saw 51 killed (2019)