6.30pm (AEST) – Men’s Basketball – FIBA World Cup – Australia v Germany – Okinawa, Japan

Independence Day in Moldova

Start of Legacy Week (until 2 September)

International Boxing Day

World Rock Paper Scissors Day

Birthdays for Tom Ford (1961) and Mark Webber (1976)

Anniversary of:
• the largest eruption of the Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, which killed 40,000 people (1883)
• the first publication of the Guinness Book of World Records (1955)
• the premiere of Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins (1964)
• Lord Mountbatten, cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, being killed by the IRA (1979)