8.00pm (AEST) – Women’s World Cup Final – Spain v England – Sydney

Start of Speech Pathology Week (until 26 August)

World Mosquito Day

Birthdays for Robert Plant (1948), David Walliams (1971), Amy Adams (1974), Andrew Garfield (1983), and Demi Lovato (1992)

Anniversary of:
• the first known African slaves arriving in North America (1619)
• US President Andrew Johnson formally declaring the end of the US Civil War (1866)
• Operation Danube, or the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary in response to the Prague Spring (1968)