12.30pm (AEST) – Musician, author and actor Clare Bowditch addresses the National Press Club on the future of Australian music – Canberra

6.47pm (AEST) – A ‘blood’ supermoon and total lunar eclipse will light up the skies. It will be the second-shortest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting just 14 minutes and 30 seconds

National Sorry Day

Independence Day in Georgia and Guyana

National Wine Day (US, but needs must…)

ABS Data Release – Construction Work Done, March

Birthdays for Stevie Nicks (1948), Lenny Kravitz (1964), Helena Bonham Carter (1966) and Lauryn Hill (1975)

Anniversary of:
• Alse Young becoming the first person executed as a witch in the American colonies (1647)
• the release of The Beatles Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the UK (1967)
• Ireland voting to repeal their 8th amendment to allow legalised abortion (2018)