9.00am (AEST) – US Open Tennis – Novak Djokovic v Jenson Brooks – New York

10.00pm (AEST) – Soccer World Cup Qualifier – Australia v Vietnam – live on Network Ten

A leadership challenge for Victorian Liberals expected to go down today

ABS Data Release – Building Approvals, July (Additional Information)

Independence Day in Brazil

Threatened Species Day, on the anniversary of the death of the last Tassie tiger (1936)

International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies

Anniversary of:
• Australia observing a ‘day of humiliation’ and praying for rain during a bad drought. Rain started falling 3 days later… (1902)
• the start of the Blitz when Germany bombed London for 57 nights as the Nazis prepared for an invasion (1940)
• the shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur (1996)
• Tony Abbott becoming PM with the Coalition defeating the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor Government (2013)
• the death of rapper Mac Miller (2018)