/ 16 June 2021

Squiz the Day – 16 June 2021

12.30pm (AEST) – Minister for the Environment, Sussan Ley addresses the National Press club – Canberra

10.00pm (AEST) – Presidential talks between America’s Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin – Geneva

International Day of the African Child

International Day of Family Remittances

Red Apple Day supporting Bowel Cancer Australia

Anniversary of:
• the formation of the Salvation Army in London (1880)
• the opening of the first rollercoaster – Coney Island, New York (1884)
• the marriage of poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath (1956)
• the premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)
• Russia’s Valentina Tereshkova becoming the first woman in space (1963)

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