3.00pm (AEDT) – Men’s Basketball – World Cup Asian Qualifier – Australia v Kazakhstan – Melbourne

4.00pm (AEDT) – State funeral held for Olivia Newton-John at Hamer Hall – Melbourne

Birthdays for former Kiwi PM Helen Clark (1950) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954)

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of Victor Hugo (1802), Levi Strauss (1829), John Harvey Kellogg (1852), Fats Domino (1928) and Johnny Cash (1932)
• the first known European landing in Australia by Dutch navigator Willem Jansz at Cape York (1606)
• P&O’s SS Ceylon beginning the world’s first round-the-world pleasure cruise from Liverpool (1881)
• the infamous Oscars mixup with La La Land mistakenly awarded Best Film instead of Moonlight (2017)
• Cardinal George Pell being convicted of child sexual abuse charges – that was later overturned on appeal (2019)