4.00pm (AEST) – NRL Preliminary Final – Melbourne Storm v Penrith Panthers – Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane

7.15pm (AEST) – AFL Grand Final – Melbourne Demons v Western Bulldogs – Optus Stadium, Perth

8.05pm (AEST) – Rugby Championship – Wallabies v Argentina – Townsville

Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969) and husband Michael Douglas (1944) share a birthday, as well as actor/musos Will Smith (1968) and Donald Glover (1983)

Anniversary of:
• the birth of the remote control after engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully guided a boat (1906)
• Henry Ford announcing an 8 hour, 5-day work week (1926)
• the formation of U2 after Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik and Adam Clayton responded to an advertisement posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr at Dublin’s Mount Temple Comprehensive School (1976)
• Cathy Freeman’s famous 400m Olympic win (2000)