7.30pm (AEDT) – Australian Cricket Awards – Sydney

Industry Climate Action Summit – Sydney

Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day

Birthdays for actors Christian Bale (1974) and Olivia Colman (1974)

Anniversary of:
• the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi (1948)
• the birth of the Ashes legend after the defeated English team is presented with the ashes of a bail (1883)
• The Beatles performing their last live gig on a London rooftop (1969)
• the WHO declaring COVID-19 as a public health emergency (but not yet a pandemic…) (2020)