Tassie state election

From 11.00pm (AEDT) – US Democratic and Republican Primaries in Louisiana, and a Democratic primary in Missouri 

World Meteorological Day

Birthdays for former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (1952), celebrity blogger Perez Hilton (1978), and Eugenie, Princess of York (1990)

Anniversary of:

• the 1st recorded use of “OK” [oll korrect] in the Boston Morning Post (1839)
• the Battle of Okinawa, the largest battle of the Pacific War in World War II (1945)
• the premiere of The Bold and the Beautiful (1987)
• the death of Elizabeth Taylor (2011) and Madeleine Albright (2022)
• And Syria declaring the last Islamic State-controlled territory had been retaken (2019)