12.30pm (AEST) – Chair of the ABC and Patron of Macular Disease Foundation Australia Ita Buttrose addresses the National Press Club – Canberra

ABS Data Release – Building Approvals, March

Celebration of Cinco de Mayo

Liberation Day in the Netherlands to remember 1945’s end to the Nazi Occupation

World Hand Hygiene Day

World Asthma Day

International Day of the Midwife

A birthday for Adele (1988)

Anniversary of:
• Birthday of Karl Marx (1818)
• Death of Napoléon Bonaparte (1821)
• Carnegie Hall opening in New York with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor (1891)
• Perfume Chanel No 5 released by fashion designer Coco Chanel (1921)