1.00am (AEST) – Surfing: WSL finals (on until 14 Sep) – California, US

3.20pm (AEST) – AFL: First Qualifying Final, Sydney Swans v GWS GIANTS – Sydney and watch on Kayo

5.00pm (AEST) – Basketball: the NBL Blitz begins with a double header – Tassie JackJumpers v Brisbane Bullets followed by Melbourne United v Cairns Taipans (the comp is on until 14 September) – Gold Coast

7.30pm (AEST) – AFL: First Elimination Final, Brisbane v Carlton – Brisbane, and watch on Kayo 

11.00pm (AEST) – Cricket: Scotland Men v Australia Men – Third T20I – UK, and watch on Kayo

World Beard Day 

Independence Day in Brazil

Threatened Species Day, on the anniversary of the death of the last Tassie Tiger Benjamin, at the Hobart Zoo (1936)  

International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies 

Anniversary of:

• the start of the Blitz when Germany bombed London for 57 nights as the Nazis prepared for an invasion (1940)
• the shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur (1996)
• Tony Abbott becoming PM after the Coalition defeated the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor Government (2013)