8.00am (ACST) – National Security Conference with a focus on Indo-Pacific security, national resilience and capability – Canberra

7.00pm (AEST) – A Midsummer Night’s Dream opens as part of Shakespeare Under the Stars (until 28 April) – Sydney

SA Parliament sits, both Houses

Eid al-Fitr 

National Library Workers Day

Birthdays for Nigel Slater (1958), Marc Jacobs (1963), Cynthia Nixon (1966), Kristen Stewart (1990), and Lil Nas X (1999)

Anniversary of:

• the end of US Civil War after the surrender of the Confederate Army (1865)
• US troops capturing Baghdad, which led to the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime (2003)
• Prince Charles and Camilla’s wedding (2005)
• the death of Prince Philip (2021)