4.20pm (AEDT) – Horse Racing – The Victoria Derby – Melbourne

4.45pm (AEDT) – Horse Racing – The Golden Eagle – Sydney

Turkey’s National Day

World Stroke Day

World Psoriasis Day

Birthdays for the voice of Homer Simpson Dan Castellaneta (1957), actor Winona Ryder (1971),

Anniversary of:
• the release of the first ballpoint pen, manufactured by Biro (1945)
• the first publication of the comic Asterix in French magazine Pilote, illustrated by Albert Uderzo (1959)
• 77yo John Glenn becoming the oldest person to go into space, on board the Space Shuttle Discovery (1998)
• China announcing the end of their one-child policy after 35 years (2015)
• far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro becoming the president of Brazil (2018)
• the first Boeing 737 MAX plane crash with Lion Air flight plummeted into the sea just after takeoff near Jakarta. All 189 on board were killed (2018)