8.00pm (AEST) – AFL Brownlow Medal Awards – Melbourne

King’s Birthday public holiday in Western Oz

Treasurer Jim Chalmers to release the Employment White Paper

The National Bushfire Preparedness Summit begins (until 26 September) – Canberra

Sleep Awareness Week begins (until 1 October)

World Pharmacists Day

Start of Paris Fashion Week (until 3 October)

Start of Sustainable Fashion Week (on until 8 October) – UK

World Dream Day

Catherine Zeta-Jones (1969) and husband Michael Douglas (1944) share a birthday, as well as Will Smith (1968) and Donald Glover (1983)

Anniversary of:
• the birth of the remote control after engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully guided a boat (1906)
• Henry Ford announcing an 8-hour, 5-day work week (1926)
• the formation of U2 after student Larry Mullen Jr posted an ad at Dublin’s Mount Temple Comprehensive School (1976)
• Cathy Freeman’s famous 400m Olympic win at the Sydney Olympics (2000)