/ 15 May 2022

15 May 2022

19 NOV (6)

5.00am (AEST) – Eurovision 2021 Grand Final – live on SBS. Non-early birds can watch the primetime broadcast at 7.30pm

The Coalition officially launches its election campaign – Brisbane

One from the Heart flood recovery concert – Lismore

Lebanese general election

International Day of Families

Anniversary of:
• the patenting of the world’s first machine gun (1718)
• the formation of the National Woman Suffrage Association, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1869)
• Jessica Watson becoming the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world at age 16 (2010)
• the deaths of poet Emily Dickinson (1886), former PM Robert Menzies (1978), actor Bud Tingwell (2009)

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