Service marking the end of WWII – Canberra

India’s National Day

Start of National Science Week (until 23 August)

Birthdays for Princess Anne (1950), Melinda Gates (1964), Ben Affleck (1972), Jennifer Lawrence (1990)

Anniversary of:
• the first Rugby Test Match between New Zealand’s All Blacks and Australia’s Wallabies (1903)
• 75 years since the end of WWII (1945)
• 70 years since Sukarno proclaimed the Republic of Indonesia and became its first President (1950)
• the opening of Woodstock Music Festival (1969)
• the release of musical atrocity, the Macarena by Los del Rio (1995)