12.30pm (AEDT) – Former Chief Justice of Australia, Robert French, addresses the National Press Club on ‘The Voice – Filling a Long Constitutional Silence’ – Canberra

8.00pm (AEDT) – Nobel Peace Prize announced

Commonwealth, state, and territory agriculture ministers to hold a virtual meeting

World Cerebral Palsy Day

World Smile Day

Anniversary of:
• the opening of the Moulin Rogue in Paris (1889)
• inventor Thomas Edison showing his first motion picture (1889)
• the High Court of Australia sitting for the first time (1903)
• the release of the first film with a soundtrack, The Jazz Singer. It signalled an end to the era of silent films (1927)
• the launch of Instagram (2010)