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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Multimillionaire Adventurer Steve Fossett Goes Missing (2007)
After earning millions as a stockbroker and investment consultant, Fossett began a second career as a sports adventurer. He swam the English Channel in 1985 and set many sailing records, but he is best known for his long-distance solo aviation triumphs, like becoming the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon in 2002. He disappeared while flying a private plane in Nevada in September 2007 and was declared dead five months later.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
"Crocodile Hunter" Killed When Stingray Barb Pierces His Heart (2006)
Australian wildlife expert and conservationist Steve Irwin shot to fame with his wildlife documentary television series The Crocodile Hunter, earning an international following with his exuberance and oft-repeated catchphrase "Crikey!". The beloved naturalist was snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef, filming a segment for a documentary, when he was fatally pierced in the chest by a poisonous stingray barb. He was just 44 and is survived by his wife and two children.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Christopher McCandless's Body Found (1992)
The tragic story of Christopher McCandless begins in southern California and ends in the wilds of Alaska, where the 24-year-old's emaciated remains were found weeks after he had apparently starved to death while trying to live off the land on his own. His journal, in which he chronicled his 113 days in the wilderness, has shed some light on his final months, including where he sheltered—an abandoned bus—and what he last ate, but much will never be known.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Delano Grape Strike Begins (1965)
In late 1965, California grape workers went on strike to protest poor pay and labor conditions. Labor leader César Chávez soon took up their cause, and in 1966, he and his followers began a 340-mi (547-km) trek from Delano to the state capitol to raise awareness of the farm workers' plight. The march began with 75 people and ended in a rally of 10,000 people on the capitol steps. Many Americans rallied to their cause and boycotted table grapes.

To me, one of the more interesting battles of that war.  

Birthdays
1157 Richard the Lionheart
1841 Antonín Dvořák,prolific composer
1897 Jimmie Rodgers was an American singer-songwriter regarded as "the Father of Country Music"
1925 Peter Sellers, comic actor famous as Chief Inspector Clouseau in "The Pink Panther" film series.
1941 Bernie Sanders, The longest-serving independent Senator in Congressional history
1932 Patsy Cline Country Music Singer

Events
70 Roman army under General Titus completes the siege of Jerusalem by destroying what remained after four months of occupation and plundering

1504 Michelangelo's statue of David is unveiled in Florence

1565 First permanent European settlement in the US is founded in St. Augustine, Florida

1664 The Dutch surrender the colony of New Netherland, including New Amsterdam (modern-day New York), to a force of about 300 English soldiers

1858 Abraham Lincoln, says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time"

1883 Northern Pacific Railroad's last spike is driven at Independence Creek, Montana

1894 Employed by Thomas Edison, William K.L. Dickson films the first boxing match in West Orange, New Jersey, an exhibition between world heavyweight champion James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney

1900 6,000 people are killed when a hurricane and tidal wave strike Galveston, Texas

1920 US Air Mail service begins (NYC to San Francisco)

1930 American inventor Richard Gurley Drew creates Scotch tape

1930 First appearance of the comic strip "Blondie," created by American cartoonist Chic Young

1934 Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle, bound for New Jersey, catches fire; 133 die

1939 Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller, 20, is the youngest pitcher to win 20 games

1941 Siege of Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins during World War II; battle lasts over 28 months as Soviets repel the invasion; well over a million lives are lost

1943 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower announces Italy's surrender to the Allies on September 3 in the Armistice of Cassibile

1944 First V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp, Belgium

1945 US invades Japanese-held Korea

1948 The British de Havilland DH 108 fighter flies faster than the speed of sound

1952 Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man and the Sea" is published

1954 With a 3-2 count, Philadelphia Phillies batter Richie Ashburn fouls off the next 14 pitches, then walks

1960 Nationwide release of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh

1965 Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana and Florida

1965 Kansas City A's Bert Campaneris plays all nine positions in a game

1965 "Hey-Hey, We're the Monkees. Small ads in Daily Variety and Hollywood Reporter attract 437 young men interested in forming the world’s first manufactured boy band, "The Monkees." Three are chosen, with British actor-singer Davy Jones already cast

1974 American motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho but fails, escaping with minor injuries

1974 US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes

1988  A. Bartlett Giamatti selected as the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. His tenure as Commissioner of Baseball ended abruptly with his sudden death of a heart attack in September of 1989.

1994 Last US, British, and French troops leave West Berlin

1994 USAir Boeing 737 crashes at Pittsburgh Airport, killing all 132 on board

2018 Archaeologists uncover more than 300 gold coins from the late imperial period in a theatre in Como, Italy

2022 Australian Stephanie Gilmore wins her eighth world surfing title at Lower Trestles, California, making her the most successful women's champion in history

2022 Queen Elizabeth II dies at Balmoral Castle after ruling for 70 years as the UK's longest-serving monarch; her eldest son inherits the throne as King III

Respectfully submitted this 8th day of September, 2026, By Mr Nubbz

1945 US invades Japanese-held Korea

At Inchon.  Keep the plans, you might need them five years later.  Spoiler alert, they were reused five years later.