4.15pm (AEDT) – Black Caviar Lightning Stakes Horse Race – Flemington 

Rio de Janeiro Carnival street parade

Independence Day – Kosovo

Birthdays for Michael Jordan (1963), Paris Hilton (1981), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1982), Ed Sheeran (1991)

Anniversary of:

• the birthday of Banjo Patterson (1864)

• the world’s first superhero The Phantom making his first appearance in comics (1936)

• General Motors announcing it will be retiring the Holden brand (2020)