/ 04 August 2022

4 August 2022

19 NOV (65)

6.00pm (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Netball – Australia v Jamaica

7.00pm (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Cycling – Women’s Individual Time Trial, followed by the men at 9.00pm

11.30pm (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Women’s Beach Volleyball – Australia v Cyprus

National Cabinet meets

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

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day

Constitution Day – Cook Islands

Barack Obama Day in Illinois, where the former US prez launched his political career

Birthdays for author Tim Winton (1960), former US President Barack Obama (1961), and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex (1981)

Anniversary of:
• the invention of Champagne by Dom Pérignon (1693)
• the arrest of Anne Frank following a tip-off (1944)
• Prince’s Purple Rain album going to #1, where it would stay for 24 weeks (1984)
• the Beirut blast, which killed 207 people (2020)

Friday
5.35am (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Athletics – Men’s Discus Final

6.00am (AEST) – Commonwealth Games Men’s Hockey – Australia v Pakistan

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