National days for Armenia, Belize and Malta

International Day of Peace

World Alzheimer’s Day

ARIA Award nominees announced

Birthdays for Stephen King (1947), Bill Murray (1950), Kevin Rudd (1957), Billy Porter (1969), Liam Gallagher (1972), and Nicole Richie (1981)

Anniversary of:
• the passing of a proclamation announcing the formal abolition of the French monarchy during the French Revolution (1792)
• the publication of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937)
• the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China by the Chinese Communist Party (1949)
• the publication of a genomic study finding Indigenous Australians are the oldest known civilisation on earth in Nature (2016)