12.30pm (AEST) – Rugby League – Bledisloe Cup – Wallabies v All Blacks – Dunedin

International Traffic Light Day

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of Joseph Merrick aka ‘The Elephant Man’ (1862), former PM Harold Holt (1908), and astronaut Neil Armstrong (1930)
• the deaths of Marilyn Monroe (1962), Toni Morrison (2019) and Judith Durham (2022)
• Humphrey Gilbert claiming Newfoundland for Britain – the first English colony in North America and the beginning of the British Empire (1583)
• the capture of Nelson Mandela. He would spend the next 27 years in prison in South Africa (1962)
• the Indian Government announcing it would change the status of Indian-controlled Kashmir from a state to a union territory (2019)