9.00am (AEST) – Tennis – US Open – Novak Djokovic v Holger Rune

10.15am (AEST – Tennis – US Open – Alex de Minaur v Taylor Fritz

2.15pm (AEST) – Tokyo Paralympics – Women’s Goalball Quarter-Finals – Australia v Turkey

7:30pm (AEST) – Tokyo Paralympics – Men’s 200m Individual Medley SM9 Final

9.45pm – Tokyo Paralympics – Men’s Wheelchair Basketball Quarter-Final – Australia v Japan. The winner will face the winner of the match between Great Britain and Canada on Friday in the semi-final.

Venice Film Festival begins (on until September 11)

ABS Data Release – Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product, June 2021

Indigenous Literacy Day

Wattle Day

Gold Bow Day, raising awareness about thyroid cancer

Start of Asthma Week (on until 7 September)

Start of World Alzheimer’s Month

Birthdays for Dr Phil (1950) and Zendaya (1996)

Anniversary of:
• the opening of the Sydney General Post Office (1874)
• the start of WWII after Germany invades Poland (1939)
• the US, Australia and New Zealand signing the ANZUS defence treaty (1951)
• the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic (1985)