2.00pm (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Australia CEO, Craig Phillip, holds a press conference – Sydney

7.00pm (AEST) – Netball World Cup – Australia v Zimbabwe – Cape Town

7.45pm (AEST) – Women’s Cricket – 3rd ODI – Australia v Ireland – Dublin

Independence Day in Peru

Statehood Day in Ukraine

AUSMIN talks begin in Brissie (until 29 July)

ABS Data Release – Retail Trade, June; Producer Price Indexes, June

World Hepatitis Day

Strive to be Kind Day (in memory of Allison Baden-Clay)

Schools Tree Day

Birthdays for Garfield creator Jim Davis (1945) and Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn (1952)

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of author Beatrix Potter (1866) and former FLOTUS Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929)
• the invention of the hamburger in Connecticut (1900)
• the beginning of WWI, after Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia (1914)
• the release of Walt Disney’s Alice In Wonderland (1951)
• the Provisional Irish Republican Army calling an end to their 30-year armed campaign in Northern Ireland (2005)