7.05pm (AEDT) – Cricket – Women’s T20 – Australia v Pakistan – Hobart

Australia Day, marking 235 years since Captain Arthur Phillip raised the Union Jack at Sydney Cove, New South Wales (1788)

Tár, starring Cate Blanchett, premieres in Australian cinemas

A birthday for Ellen DeGeneres (1958)

Anniversary of:
• the Rum Rebellion, the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history (1808)
• the deaths of basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and 7 others in a helicopter crash (2020)