1.00pm (AEDT) – WHO Regional Director for the Western Pacific, Dr Takeshi Kasai, gives an update on COVID-19 in the region

International Day of People with Disability

Bartender Appreciation Day

International Sweater Vestival

A birthday for rocker Ozzy Osborne (1948) and actors Brendan Fraser (1968) and Amanda Seyfried (1985)

LOL c u l8r, it’s the 29th anniversary of the very first text message (1992)

Anniversary of:
• the Eureka Stockade (1854)
• the deaths of author Robert Louis Stevenson (1894), painter Pierre Auguste Renoir (1919)
• Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George HW Bush declaring the Cold War over (1989)