Squiz the Day / 16 June 2023
16 June 2023
8.00pm (AEST) – Men’s Test Cricket – Ashes Match 1 – Australia v England – Birmingham
Liberal Party federal council meeting (until 17 June) – Canberra
International Day of the African Child
International Day of Family Remittances
Winner of the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize announced – National Portrait Gallery
Anniversary of:
• the formation of the Salvation Army in London (1880)
• the opening of the first rollercoaster in Coney Island, New York (1884)
• the marriage of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath (1956)
• the premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)
• Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova becoming the first woman in space (1963)
• the release of David Bowie’s breakthrough album The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
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