Tonight (AEST) – A final high-level meeting before the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow in November is held – Milan

ABS Data Releases – Job Vacancies, August; Building Approvals, August

Botswana’s National Day

International Translation Day

World Maritime Day

International Podcast Day

Birthdays for actor Fran Drescher (1957) and dancer Maddie Ziegler (2002)

Anniversary of:
• anaesthetic ether being used for the first time by American dentist Dr William Morton (1846)
• 22 Nazi leaders being found guilty of war crimes at the Nuremberg war trials (1946)
• the death of James Dean (1955)
• the premiere of the cartoon The Flintstones (1960)