/ 04 July 2024

4 July 2024

From 9.00am (AEST) – We’re keeping an eye out for an announcement from Western Australian MP Fatima Payman who’s expected to quit the Labor party – Canberra

9.00am (AEST) – Legal arguments over evidence continuing in Bruce Lehrmann’s committal hearing over rape allegations – Toowoomba

10.30am (AEST) – Equestrian: Giddy up, the Aussie equestrian team will be named for the Paris Olympics – Sydney… And continuing the Olympics announcements…

2.00pm (AEST) – Beach Volleyball: the final beach volleyball team for the Paris Games will be revealed – Brisbane

From 4.00pm (AEST) – Polls open for the UK Election

9.35pm (AEST) – Cycling: Tour de France, stage 6, Macon to Dijon (163 km) – France

ABS Data Release – International Trade in Goods, May; 

Independence Day – US

Post Malone’s birthday (1995)

Anniversary of:

  • Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) creating the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for Alice Liddell on a family boat trip in Oxford (1862)
  • the launch of hotmail.com, the first free web-based email service – and we’re not judging if you still use it… (1996)
  • North Korea testing their first successful intercontinental ballistic missile (2017)
  • the deaths of Thomas Jefferson (1826), Marie Curie (1934) and Barry White (2003)
  • wedding anniversaries for Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne (1982), David and Victoria Beckham (1999) and Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis (2015)

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