/ 30 April 2021

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Friday
National Cabinet meets

US President Joe Biden marks his first 100 days in office

ABS Data Release – Producer Price Indexes, March

International Jazz Day

Birthdays for Kirsten Dunst (1982), Gal Gadot (1985) and Nikki Webster (1987)

Anniversary of:
• the inauguration of George Washington, the first President of the United States of America (1789)
• Mr Potato Head becoming the first toy to be advertised on television (1952)
• Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson getting hitched (1988)
• the World Wide Web (WWW) being launched in the public domain (1989)

Saturday
3.00pm (AEST) – First game of the 2021 Super Netball season – Melbourne Vixens v West Coast Fever – Melbourne

Tasmanian state election

Anniversary of:
• ‘Penny Black’, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp issued by Great Britain (1840)
• the Empire State Building opening in New York City (1931)
• the marriage of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu (1967)
• Labour’s Tony Blair elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997)
• Tasmania decriminalising homosexuality (1997)

Sunday
8.30am (AEST) – Horse Racing – Kentucky Derby – Louisville, Kentucky

World Press Freedom Day

World Tuna Day

World Laughter Day

Start of National Heart Week (until 9 May)

Birthdays for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (1972), Lily Allen (1985) and Princess Charlotte (2015)

Anniversary of the deaths of Leonardo da Vinci (1519), J Edgar Hoover (1972), fictional villain Lord Voldemort (1998) and Osama bin Laden (2011)

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