July 27th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 208 of the year! Known as Walk On Stilts Day, Bagpipe Appreciation Day, National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day and Take Your Houseplants For A Walk Day. If you were born today, you were likely conceived the week of November 3rd 2022 and have the star sign “Leo”.
1974 – At Ascot, English champion jockey Lester Piggott had 3 wins, bring his total to 3,001. By the time that he retired in 1985–86 he had 5,300 winners in the UK & abroad, including nine Epsom Derby victories.
Todays birthdays
1958 – Christopher Dean (65), English ice dancer (Torvill & Dean; Olympic gold 1984), born in Calverton, Nottinghamshire, England.
1963 – Donnie Yen (60), Hong Kong actor, martial artist and director (Ip Man, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), born in Guangzhou, China.
1969 – Triple H (54), American pro wrestler (14 x world champion; D-Generation X stable), born in Nashua, New Hampshire.
1973 – Tom Kerridge (50), English chef, born in Salisbury, England.
1977 – Jonathan Rhys Meyers (46), Irish actor (Bend It Like Beckham, Mission Impossible 3), model and musician, born in Drimnagh, Dublin, Ireland.
The day today
1949 – The British De Havilland Comet, the first jet-propelled airliner, made its maiden flight. It was a 40-passenger airliner.
1969 – English rower Tom McLean arrived off the Irish coast to become the first man to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean – from west to east – a distance of 2000 miles. His voyage took 72 days.
1974 – At Ascot, English champion jockey Lester Piggott had 3 wins, bring his total to 3,001. By the time that he retired in 1985–86 he had 5,300 winners in the UK & abroad, including nine Epsom Derby victories.
1999 – Tony Hawk landed the first “900” on a skateboard at the 5th annual X Games in San Francisco.
2012 – Queen Elizabeth declared the 30th Olympics opened in London, UK. To the audience’s surprise, a stand-in for the Queen made an entrance by skydiving from a helicopter with James Bond’s assistance.
Today in music
1976 – Tina Turner filed for divorce from her husband Ike, ending their violent 16-year marriage and successful musical partnership.
1985 – The Eurythmics were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)’, the duo’s only UK No.1 single. The song featured a harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder.
1992 – Michael Jackson sued the British paper The Daily Mirror over photos and an article that said he was left a “scar face” from numerous plastic surgeries. The suit was later settled out of court.
1996 – The Spice Girls scored their first No.1 UK single with ‘Wannabe’. Seven weeks at No.1, the song won Best British-Written Single at the 1997 Ivor Novello Awards and Best Single at the 1997 Brit Awards. The Girl Power song became the best-selling single by a female group selling over six million copies worldwide.c
2002 – Mariah Carey checked herself into an undisclosed hospital suffering from “extreme exhaustion.” The singer cancelled all public appearances, including her headlining appearance at MTV’s 20th birthday party.
Historical events
1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria invaded Scotland and defeated Macbeth, King of Scotland ‘somewhere north’ of the Firth of Forth.
1586 – Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first tobacco to England, from Virginia.
1663 – The English Parliament passed the Second Navigation Act requiring that all goods bound for the American colonies had to be sent in English ships from English ports.
1866 – The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
1890 – Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
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