10.30am (AEDT) – Cricket – 4th Ashes Test – Jane McGrath Day – Australia v England – Sydney

5.10pm (AEDT) – AFLW – Round 1 Season Opener – St Kilda v Richmond – Melbourne

Birthdays for designer Christian Louboutin (1963), actor Nicolas Cage (1964, rugby coach Ricky Stuart (1967), and champion F1 driver Lewis Hamilton (1985)

Anniversary of:
• Guy Menzies completing the first solo trans-Tasman flight from Sydney to West Coast of New Zealand (1931)
• the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in Paris with 12 people killed by Islamic extremists (2015)