12.30pm (AEDT) – Minister for Skills and Training, Brendan O’Connor, addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

2.30pm (AEDT) – RBA board meeting and rate announcement

7.30pm (AEDT) – Men’s Cricket – Cricket World Cup Warm-Up Matches – Pakistan v Australia – Hyderabad, India

8.45pm (AEDT) – Nobel Prize for Physics announced

Early voting opens for the 2023 referendum in NSW, ACT, Queensland, and South Oz

Term 4 begins for public schools in Queensland

Crypto-entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud trial kicks off – New York

ABS Data Release – Building Approvals, August; Lending Indicators, August

Mean Girls Day (“it’s October 3rd”)

Day of German Unity – anniversary of the reunification of East and West Germany (1990)

South Korea’s National Foundation Day

Melbourne Fringe Festival begins (until 22 October)

Birthdays for Lindsey Buckingham (1949) and ASAP Rocky (1988)

Anniversary of:
• the premiere of the Mickey Mouse Club (1955), The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) and Mr Ed (1961)
• American tennis star Billie Jean King becoming the first female athlete to win US$100,000 in prize money in a single year (1971)
• the marriage of Barack and Michelle Obama (1992)
• former NFL player/actor OJ Simpson was found not guilty of the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in California (1995)
• Chinese President Xi Jinping announcing the Belt and Road Initiative (2013)