5.00pm (AEST) – Netball World Cup – Australia v England – Cape Town

Independence Day in Niger

ABS Data Release – International Trade in Goods and Services, June

Melbourne International Film Festival begins (until 27 August)

Birthdays for Martin Sheen (1940), Martha Stewart (1941), Tom Brady (1977), and 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)