9.00am – 4.00pm (AEDT) – Uber X Red Cross Clothing Drive – available in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth

Start of Children’s Week (on until 29 October)

International Day of the Nacho

Back to the Future Day, celebrating the day Doc Brown and Marty McFly first go back in time in the famous film

Birthday for Judge Judy (1942), Benjamin Netanyahu (1949) and Kim Kardashian (1980)

Anniversary of:
• English scientist John Dalton unveils his atomic theory (1803)
• China’s occupation of Tibet (1950)
• the death of former PM Gough Whitlam (2014)
• Australian newspapers blanking out their front pages in protest against press restrictions on the reporting of legal proceedings against Cardinal George Pell (2019)