12.30pm (AEST) – Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, Dr Michael Fullilove, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

Birthdays for actor Meryl Streep (1949), US Senator Elizabeth Warren (1949), singer Cyndi Lauper (1953), and author Dan Brown (1964)

Anniversary of:
• Galileo Galilei being forced to recant his view that the Earth orbits the Sun by the Pope (1633)
• Princess Elizabeth meeting her future husband, Prince Philip of Greece (1939)
• Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union during WWII (1941)
• the deaths of actor/singers Judy Garland (1969) and Fred Astaire (1987)