July 15th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 196 of the year! Known as I Love Horses Day and Saint Swithin’s Day (died on July 15, 862). If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of October 22nd 2022.
1858 – The birth, in Moss Side Manchester, of Emmeline Pankhurst, the English suffragette who led the fight for women’s suffrage in Britain, often by violent means.
Todays birthdays
1961 – Forest Whitaker (62), American actor (The Last King of Scotland, Godfather of Harlem), born in Longview, Texas.
1963 – Brigitte Nielsen (60), Danish actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV, Beverly Hills Cop 2), born in Rødovre, Denmark.
1967 – Adam Savage (56), American film special effects designer and television personality (MythBusters), born in New York City.
1965 – David Milliband (58), former British Labour Party politician, born in London.
1975 – Jill Halfpenny (48), English actress (Coronation Street, Waterloo Road), born in Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England.
The day today
1912 – National Insurance payments began in Britain.
1953 – Murderer John Christie, responsible for the deaths of at least six women in his home at 10, Rillington Place, London, was hanged.
1997 – Fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead on the steps of his Miami mansion.
1988 – The thriller Die Hard was first released in U.S. theatres, launching a hugely popular franchise and helping establish Bruce Willis as an action star.
2018 – Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao stops WBA welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse in seven rounds in Kuala Lumpur for his first knockout in nine years and 60th career victory.
Today in music
1978 – Bob Dylan with special guest Eric Clapton, Joan Armatrading and Graham Parker all appeared at Blackbushe Aerodrome, Surrey, England. Reputedly this was the biggest ever UK audience for Bob Dylan, with over 200,000 fans attending.
1989 – Simply Red scored their second US No.1 single with ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now’, a 1973 UK hit for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes.
2000 – A Manchester judge reprimanded Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder after he turned up a day late in court to give evidence. Ryder told the court he had been on ‘a bender’. A man was cleared of dangerous driving and assaulting Ryder.
2007 – The UK music industry reacted angrily to a decision to give away Prince’s new album “Planet Earth” as a ‘covermount’ with the Mail on Sunday newspaper. The CD was not due to be released in stores until July 24.
2012 – Queen were crowned top of the patriotic pops in a survey of 100,000 music fans. The band’s anthem ‘We Are The Champions’ was named number one by fans who were asked what song made them proud to be British.
Historical events
1381 – Poll Tax Triggers the Peasants’ Revolt: John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, is hung, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.
1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign.
1815 – Napoleon surrenders to Captain Frederick Maitland of HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort after his earlier defeat at the Battle of Waterloo.
1834 – The Spanish Inquisition is officially disbanded after nearly 356 years.
1941 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins the deportation of 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to extermination camps.
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