3.30pm (AEDT) – Men’s Cricket – First ODI – Australia v India – Mumbai

Early voting opens for the NSW state election

Productivity Commission releases 1000-page report about the economic challenges facing Oz

St Patrick’s Day

World Sleep Day

Birthdays for actor Kurt Russell (1951), Billy Corgan (1967) and Grimes (1988)

Anniversary of:
• the deaths of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (180) and Saint Patrick (461)
• Edward the Black Prince being made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England (1337)
• the patenting of the rubber band and self-raising flour (1845)
• Albert Einstein finishing his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics (1905)
• the birthdays of Gottlieb Daimler (1834), Nat King Cole (1919), and Alexander McQueen (1969)