August 4th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 216 of the year! Known as Assistance Dog Day and Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. If you were born today, you were likely conceived the week of November 11th 2022 and have the star sign “Leo”.
2015 – Because of the locusts, a state of emergency has been declared in three regions near Stavropol, according to local media. In Stavropol alone, efforts to kill the insects have stretched across more than 350 miles, according to officials.
Todays birthdays
1947 – Paul Layton (76), English musician and rocker (The New Seekers – “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing”), born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England.
1955 – Billy Bob Thornton (68), American film actor and director (Bad Santa, Tombstone, Armageddon), Hot Springs, Arkansas.
1958 – Ian Broudie (65), English musician (The Lightning Seeds) and singer-songwriter (Three Lions, Lucky You, The Life Of Riley), born in Liverpool, England.
1968 – Lee Mack (55), English comedian, actor, podcaster and presenter (Not Going Out, Would I Lie To You), born in Southport, England.
1981 – Meghan Windsor (42), American former actress (Suits), Duchess of Sussex and wife of Prince Harry, born in, Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California.
The day today
1984 – Carl Lewis wins the 100m in 9.9 seconds at the Los Angeles Olympics. On the same day, the Republic of Upper Volta becomes Burkina Faso.
1989 – ‘Licence to Kill’ went on general cinema release in the United Kingdom. It was the sixteenth entry in the James Bond film series by Eon Productions, and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel.
2000 – Celebrations took place all over the United Kingdom to mark the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. She was the first ever member of the Royal Family to reach her centenary.
2012 – The annual stinging nettle-eating competition, started in 1986, was held at The Bottle Inn pub at Marshwood near Bridport in Dorset. The current record at the event for the most amount of nettles eaten in one hour is 76ft (23m). Also on this day, Great Britain enjoyed its most successful day at an Olympics in 104 years by winning six gold medals on day eight of the London Games.
2014 – People in the UK were encouraged to turn off their lights between 10pm and 11pm, leaving only a single light or candle for a symbolic act of reflection and hope in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of World War 1. On the eve of Britain officially entering the war, Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, uttered the words “The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”
Today in music
1962 – The Rolling Stones played the first of 22 weekly shows at Ealing Jazz Club in Ealing, London. They were known as The Rollin’ Stones during this period.
1966 – The Troggs were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘With A Girl Like You’, the group’s only UK No.1 single.
1975 – Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and his wife were both badly injured when the hire car he was driving spun off the road and crashed on the Greek island of Rhodes. Plant smashed both his ankle and his elbow, and was not fully fit for the best part of two years.
2000 – Craig David scored his second UK No.1 single with ‘7 Days’. At the age of 19, he became the youngest male artist to score two No.1’s since Donny Osmond in 1973.
2017 – ‘Despacito’ by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi featuring Justin Bieber became the most-watched YouTube video ever, passing the Wiz Khalifa/Charlie Puth collaboration ‘See You Again’ with nearly 3 billion views in just seven months.
Historical events
1265 – The Battle of Evesham (Worcestershire) took place, in which the army of Prince Edward, the future king Edward I of England, defeated the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. De Montfort and many of his allies were killed.
1693 – Dom Perignon’s invention of champagne; it is not clear whether he actually invented champagne, however he has been credited as an innovator who developed the techniques used to perfect sparkling wine.
1704 – Gibraltar was captured for the British by Admiral Sir George Rooke.
1914 – World War I: Britain declared war on Germany after the Germans had violated the Treaty of London by invading Belgium, and so began ‘the war to end all wars’. The United States declared their neutrality.
1944 – The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
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