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.

National Sorry Day

Independence Day in Georgia and Guyana

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)