12.30pm (AEST) – Leading ‘No’ Voice campaigner Warren Mundine addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

World Contraception Day

Mesothelioma Awareness Day

European Day of Languages

A birthday for Serena Williams (1981)

Anniversary of:
• Olivia Newton-John’s birthday (1948)
• Operation Jaywick, the action that became the starting point for Australia’s Special Forces (1943)
• the first publication of comic book Tintin (1946)
• the premiere of Gilligan’s Island (1964)
• the release of The Beatles’ Abbey Road (1969)
• Republican Richard Nixon squaring off against Democrat John Kennedy in America’s first televised presidential debate (1960)
• Saudi Arabia announcing the overturning of its ban on women driving – the last country in the world to do so (2017)