First meeting of PM Scott Morrison’s new women’s taskforce of Cabinet

International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

World Table Tennis Day

Birthdays for Paul Rudd (1970) and Zach Braff (1975)

Anniversary of:
• the establishment of Cape Colony, the first European settlement in South Africa (1652)
• the arrest of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency (1895)
• Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson becoming the first to reach the North Pole (1909)
• the US declaring war on Germany, entering World War I (1917)
• ABBA winning Eurovision with Waterloo, launching their international career (1974)
• the beginning of the Bosnian War (1992)
• the beginning of the Rwandan genocide after the aircraft carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana is shot down (1994)
• the divorce of Heidi Klum and Seal (2012)