World Alzheimer’s Day
National days for Armenia, Belize and Malta
Birthdays for author Stephen King (1947), actor Bill Murray (1950), Japanese PM Shinzō Abe (1954), former PM Kevin Rudd (1957), actor Billy Porter (1969) and Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher (1972)
Anniversary of:
• the passing of a proclamation announcing the formal abolition of the French monarchy during the French Revolution (1792)
• the publication of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937)
• the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China by the Chinese Communist Party (1949)
• the publication of a genomic study finding Indigenous Australians are the oldest known civilisation on earth in Nature (2016)
