Labor Day public holiday in the ACT, NSW and South Australia

King’s Birthday public holiday in Queensland

2.45am (AEDT) – Rugby World Cup – Australia v Portugal – France

7.05pm (AEDT) – Women’s Cricket – Second T20 – Australia v West Indies – Sydney

8.30pm (AEDT) – Nobel Prize for Medicine announced

Early voting opens for the 2023 referendum in the NT, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Oz

Term 4 begins for public schools in Victoria

International Day of Non-Violence

World Habitat Day

Audiophile Day

World Architecture Day

Birthdays for Don McLean (1945), Annie Leibovitz (1949), and Sting (1951)

Anniversary of:
• Rome becoming Italy’s capital after the country’s unification (1870)
• the publication of Beatrix Potter’s children’s classic The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)
• the first comic strip featuring Charlie Brown which would later become Peanuts (1950)
• the Warsaw Uprising by Polish resistance fighters which saw some 250,000 people killed (1944)
• the murder of writer Jamal Khashoggi (2018)