Firefighting team near the Frye Fire

The Frye Fire was a wildfire that burned 48,443 acres (19,604 ha) in Graham County, Arizona, United States, from June 7 to September 1, 2017. The fire was ignited by a lightning strike on Mount Graham, within the Coronado National Forest, and spread rapidly until it was mostly contained on July 12. The fire destroyed three buildings and briefly threatened the Mount Graham International Observatory. It cost $26 million (equivalent to $32 million in 2023) to contain and suppress, and involved more than 800 firefighters. There were no fatalities, but 63 firefighters were quarantined with strep throat. During seasonal rains beginning in July, ash and debris from the Frye Fire's burn scar washed off the mountain slopes, then clogged creeks and damaged infrastructure within Graham County. The fire particularly impacted the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel, whose remaining habitat on Mount Graham was devastated. (Full article...)

Nikolay Cherkasov as Ivan the Terrible

• ... that Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible (scene pictured) has been named as both one of the worst films and one of the greatest films of all time?
• ... that Olympian Sydney Francisco was named after the city where her mother competed at the Olympics?
• ... that the December 2010 Christchurch earthquake caused Boxing Day sales events six weeks later?
• ... that a judge compared the bankruptcy fraud of an Ohio TV station to a 1601 English court case?
• ... that the surviving copies of the Kitab-ı Bahriye contain a total of more than 5,700 maps?
• ... that in 2006 the parochial church council of St Peter's, Draycott, tried to sell the church's baptismal font?
• ... that the 1920 foxtrot song "I'll See You in C-U-B-A" was an example of Cuba being perceived as "America's playground"?
• ... that 30 royal portraits of Korean kings were completely destroyed in a 1954 fire in Busan, South Korea?
• ... that Babydog is "a fixture in West Virginia politics"?

Paralympics opening ceremony

• The Summer Paralympics open (ceremony pictured) in Paris, France.
• More than four hundred people are killed in an Islamist militant attack in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso.
• The Islamic State claims responsibility for a mass stabbing that killed three people at a festival in Solingen, Germany.
• In cycling, Katarzyna Niewiadoma wins the Tour de France Femmes.
• Doctors strike and protests occur across India after the rape and murder of a female physician in Kolkata.

September 6: Arba'in / Arba'in pilgrimage (Shia Islam, 2023); Krishna Janmashtami (Hinduism, 2023); Defence Day in Pakistan (1965)

Hurricane Irma

• 1492 – Christopher Columbus set sail from San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands on his first voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas.
• 1520 – Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, died at the age of 71.
• 1970 – Black September: The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked four airliners, landing two at Dawson's Field in Jordan and one in Cairo, while the last hijacking attempt was foiled near London.
• 2017 – Hurricane Irma (pictured) reached peak intensity near the Carribbean islands of Barbuda, Saint Martin, and Virgin Gorda.
• 2022 – Liz Truss succeeded Boris Johnson as prime minister following the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.