World Standards Day – so it’s not a day to drop them…

Birthdays for fashion designer Ralph Lauren (1939) and singer Usher (1978)

Anniversary of:
• Arthur Conan Doyle publishing The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes(1892) and AA Milne’s Winnie the Pooh makes its debut (1926)
• Martin Luther King Jr winning the Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
• the deaths of Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson (1958), actor Errol Flynn (1959) and crooner Bing Crosby (1977)
• the premiere of reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians (2007)

National Dessert Day – People around the GLOBE indulge every October 14th on National Dessert Day! Celebrated by way of the local bakery, grandma’s house or chocolate shop, desserts include candies, pies, ice cream, fruits, cookies, pastries, cobblers, and donuts, too.

In 2022 – Mandatory 5-day isolation for positive COVID cases is scrapped nationwide, and mandatory reporting of a positive RAT ends in NSW