/ 19 November 2021

19 November 2021

19 NOV

8.00am (AEDT) – The Australian Navy holds a press conference revealing the identity of the Unknown Soldier who died on the HMAS Sydney in 1941 – Canberra

7.45pm (AEDT) – Football – Men’s A-League – Melbourne City v Brisbane Roar – AAMI Park, Melbourne

Evening – The longest partial lunar eclipse in 600 years will light up the skies – check out the details here

ABS Data Release – Consumer Price Index, June (Additional Information)

Monaco’s National Day

National Agriculture Day (AgDay)

Women’s Entrepreneurship Day

International Men’s Day

World Toilet Day

Ausmusic T-Shirt Day

Adele’s first album in 6 years, 30, is released

Birthdays for designer Calvin Klein (1942), and actors Meg Ryan (1961), Jodie Foster (1962) and Adam Driver (1983)

Anniversary of:
• American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patenting the pencil (1895)
• the expulsion of Leon Trotsky from the Politburo (1926)
• the sinking of the HMAS Sydney in battle off the coast of WA, killing 645 people (1941)
• the death of cult leader Charles Manson (2017)

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