6.00am (AEDT) – BAFTA Awards ceremony – London

Aussies aged over 18yo get access to an additional COVID jab from today

Daniel Andrews marks his 3,000th day as Victorian Premier

Company Results – Bendigo and Adelaide Bank; Ampol; BlueScope Steel; GPT Group; Northern Star Resources

CISO Sydney Conference – Sydney (until 22 February)

Presidents’ Day in the US

World Day of Social Justice

Birthdays for Cindy Crawford (1966) and Rihanna (1988)

Anniversary of:
• British naval officer John Moresby discovering the site of what would become Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea and claiming it for Great Britain (1873)
• Kurt Cobain’s birthday (1967)
• the Southern Hemisphere’s most powerful storm on record (296km/hour), Cyclone Winston, hitting Fiji (2016)
• Venezuela becoming the first country to launch a virtual currency, the petro, to counteract their financial crisis (2018)