NZ PM Jacinda Ardern arrives in Oz and will have dinner with PM Anthony Albanese

Birthdays for author Patricia Cornwell (1956), and actors Michael J Fox (1961), Johnny Depp (1963), and Natalie Portman (1981)

Anniversary of:
• China leasing Hong Kong’s new territories, including Hong Kong, to the UK for 99 years (1898), as well as the anniversary of the lease expiring, handing the city back to China (1997)
• the first appearance of Donald Duck in The Wise Little Hen (1934)
• the Ghost Train fire at Luna Park in Sydney that killed 7 (1979)