ABS Data Release – Retail Trade, September month and quarter

Africa Day of Food and Nutrition Security

Grandparents’ Day in Oz

Mischief Night (as distinct to ‘every night’ if you’ve got young kids…)

Anniversary of:
• the Communist Party of Australia’s foundation (1920)
• Italian dictator Benito Mussolini forming government (1933)
• the radio broadcast of HG Wells The War of the Worlds, narrated by Orson Welles. Legend has it the broadcast caused mass panic when listeners thought that Earth was being attacked by aliens from Mars (1938)
• Clarence Birdseye selling the first frozen peas (1952)
• Kashmir officially losing its autonomous status with India bringing it under federal control (2019)
• the birthdays of explorer Christopher Columbus (1451) and Ivanka Trump (1981)