World Animal Day

Start of World Space Week (until 10 Oct)

Birthdays for actors Susan Sarandon (1946), Alicia Silverstone (1976), and Dakota Johnson (1989)

Anniversary of:

• The trial of former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins accused rapist begins 2022
  • the deaths of Dutch painter Rembrandt (1669), Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cancer cells provided one of the most important cell lines in medical research (1951), and musician Janis Joplin (1970)
  • the Soviet Union launching Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth satellite (1957)
  • the launch of WikiLeaks by Julian Assange (2006)