Squiz the Day / 03 August 2022
3 August 2022
12.30pm (AEST) – Greens Leader Adam Bandt addresses the National Press Club – Canberra
6.00pm (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Women’s Hockey – Australia v Scotland
8:00pm (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Women’s T20 Cricket – Australia v Pakistan
8:30pm (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Mountain Biking – Men’s & Women’s Cross Country
11:30pm (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Men’s Beach Volleyball – Australia v Rwanda
Independence Day in Niger
Company Results – News Corp; iHeartMedia; Novavax; Moderna; Revlon
Birthdays for actor Martin Sheen (1940), businesswoman Martha Stewart (1941), and boxer/ former Kiwi footballer Sonny Bill Williams (1985)
Anniversary of:
• American-American sprinter Jesse Owens famously winning gold in the 100m (10.3 seconds) in front of Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympics (1936)
• the US Senate ratifying the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union (1972)
• two mass shootings occurring in 24 hours in the US. A terrorist killed 22 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, and a gunman killed 9 at a bar in Dayton, Ohio (2019)
Thursday
4:00am (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Athletics – Men’s High Jump Final
5:58am (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Swimming – Men’s & Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay Finals
6:00am (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Men’s Hockey – Australia v South Africa
6:30am (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Athletics – Men’s & Women’s 100m Final
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