September 5th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 248 of the year! Known as World Samosa Day, Cheese Pizza Day and Be Late For Something Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of December 13th 2022 and your star sign is “Virgo”.
2013 – More than 130 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes in thick fog on the Sheppey crossing in Kent. The A249 bridge was closed for more than nine hours.
Todays birthdays
1946 – 1991 – Freddy Mercury British singer-songwriter (Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody”), born in Stone Town, Sultanate of Zanzibar.
1951 – Michael Keaton (72), American actor (Batman, Batman Returns, Beetlejuice, Jack Frost), born in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, United States.

1969 – Mark Ramprakash MBE (54), is an English former cricketer and cricket coach, born in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

1973 – Paddy Considine (50), British actor, director, and screenwriter (Dead Mans Shoes), born in Winshill, Burton upon Trent.
2001 – Bukayo Saka (33), English football player (Arsenal), born in London.
The day today
1960 – Cassius Clay wins the light heavyweight boxing gold medal at the Rome Olympics.
1979 – The BBC began broadcasting the hit American series ‘Dallas’ which soon became one of the most popular programmes on British TV.
2008 – £20,000 of petrol was given away in north London to promote a computer game. Traffic was gridlocked outside the Last Stop garage in Finsbury Park as drivers queued for £40 worth of free fuel each.
2013 – More than 130 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes in thick fog on the Sheppey crossing in Kent. The A249 bridge was closed for more than nine hours. Police found enough evidence to prosecute 32 motorists, but offered to send them on a driver alertness course instead. Eight people suffered serious injuries and 200 others were treated at the scene following the crash, which started at around 7.15am.
2014 – Channel 4’s game show Countdown achieved a Guinness World Record for the ‘most series broadcast for a TV game show’ when it reached its 6,000th episode On This Day. The programme was launched in 1982, with the late Richard Whiteley at the helm.
Today in music
1981 – Soft Cell were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of ‘Tainted Love.’ The song had been a hit for Gloria Jones in 1964. (Jones who became Marc Bolan’s girlfriend was the driver of the car, that crashed and killed Bolan on 16 September 1977. Jones nearly died in the accident).
1998 – Manic Street Preachers scored their first UK No.1 single with ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next’. The group’s 19th hit and the first Welsh act to have a No.1 single since Shakin’ Stevens in 1985. The song is in the Guinness World Records as the longest title for a No.1 single without brackets.
1999 – After spending 58 weeks on the UK album chart, Shania Twain went to No.1 with ‘Come On Over’. It became the best-selling country music album, and the second best-selling studio album by a female act. To date, the album has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
2006 – Arctic Monkeys won this year’s UK Mercury Prize for their album ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.’ The Sheffield-based bands album became the fastest-selling debut in chart history after shifting more than 360,000 copies in its first week of release in Feb 2006.
2021 – English singer Sarah Harding died age 39. Her professional career began in 2002 when she successfully auditioned for the ITV reality series Popstars: The Rivals, during which Harding won a place in the girl group Girls Aloud. The group achieved twenty consecutive top ten singles (including four number ones) in the UK. In August 2020 Harding announced that she had been diagnosed with advanced breast cancer.
Today in history
1174 – Canterbury Cathedral was destroyed by fire.
1646 – Following Cromwell’s victory in the English civil war, the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury was abolished.
1666 – The end of the Great Fire of London, that had started on 2nd September at the bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul’s Cathedral had been destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.
1800 – Following a blockade by Admiral Horatio Nelson, French troops surrendered the Mediterranean island of Malta to Britain.
1914 – The First Battle of the Marne began. German, British and French troops fought for six days. Half a million people were killed.
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