12.30pm (AEST) – Professor Marcia Langton addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

Early Childhood Educators’ Day

Indigenous Literacy Day

National Fight Procrastination Day

A birthday for actor Idris Elba (1972)

Anniversary of:
• Ferdinand Magellan’s Spanish expedition aboard the Vitoria returning to Spain becoming the first to circumnavigate the earth (1522)
• the Mayflower departing Plymouth, England for the New World (1620)
• the first supermarket, the Piggly Wiggly, opened in Memphis, Tennessee (1916)
• the premiere of TV sitcom The Brady Bunch (1969)
• the funeral of Princess Diana (1997)
• the deaths of Luciano Pavarotti (2007), Burt Reynolds (2018) and Robert Mugabe (2019)