6.00pm (AEST) – Voice to Parliament ‘town hall’ with Professor Tom Calma, Shireen Morris, and Ruby Langton-Batty and independent MP Allegra Spender – Sydney

11.00pm (AEST) – Tennis – French Open – Women’s Singles Semi-Finals

ABS Data Release – International Trade in Goods and Services, April

World Brain Tumor Day

World Oceans Day

Dark Mofo festival begins (until 22 June) – Hobart

National Best Friend Day

Birthdays for Nancy Sinatra (1940), inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee (1955), and Kanye West (1977)

Anniversary of:
• the completion of the first trans-Pacific flight (US to Australia) by Charles Kingsford Smith (1928)
• Siam changing its name to Thailand (1949)
• the publication of George Orwell’s 1984 (1949)
• the death of Anthony Bourdain (2018)