10.00am (AEST) – Inquest into the murder of 12yo Tiahleigh Palmer – Brisbane

12.30pm (AEST) – 2021 Australian Society for Medical Research Medallist Professor Kelvin Kong addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

World Brain Tumor Day

World Oceans Day

National Best Friend Day (US)

Birthdays for Nancy Sinatra (1940), George Pell (1941), inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee (1955) and Kanye West (1977)

Anniversary of:
• the completion of the first trans-Pacific flight (US to Australia) by Charles Kingsford Smith (1928)
• Siam changing its name to Thailand (1949)
• the publication of George Orwell’s 1984 (1949)
• the death of Anthony Bourdain (2018)