/ 09 August 2021

Squiz The Day – 9 August 2021

A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change set to be released

Company Earnings Announcements – Suncorp, Aurizon, Transurban Group

Singapore’s National Day

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

Book Lovers Day

Birthdays for tennis great Rod Laver (1938), designer Michael Kors (1959), former Kiwi PM John Key (1961), and actors Gillian Anderson (1968), Eric Bana (1968) and Anna Kendrick (1985)

Anniversary of:
• the opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican (1483)
•the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854)
• the US dropping a 2nd atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan (1945)
• the Manson family committing the Tate-LaBianca murders (1969)
• the resignation of US President Richard Nixon (1974)

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