Foreign Minister Penny Wong flies to Honiara to meet Solomon Islands PM Manasseh Sogovare

First National Cabinet meeting since the federal election

Iceland’s National Day

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

Birthdays for former tennis star Venus Williams (1980), rapper Kendrick Lamar (1987), and former Aussie swimmer/Olympian Stephanie Rice (1988)

Anniversary of:
• Charles Goodyear obtaining his first rubber patent (1837)
• the Statue of Liberty arriving in New York aboard French ship Isere (1885)
• the last public guillotining in France (1939)