September 15th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 258 of the year! Known as World Afro Day, National Creme de Menthe Day, Double Cheeseburger Day and Make A Hat Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of December 23rd 2022 and your star sign is “Virgo”.
1916 – First use of tanks in warfare, “Little Willies” at Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the Battle of the Somme.
Todays birthdays
1946 – Tommy Lee Jones (77), American actor (Men In Black, Double Jeopardy, The Fugitive) and film director, born in San Saba, Texas, United States.
1955 – Brendan O’Carroll (68), Irish actor, comedian, director, producer and writer (Agnes Brown – Mrs Browns Boys), born in Finglas, Dublin, Ireland.
1972 – Jimmy Carr (51), British-Irish comedian, presenter, writer (8 Out of 10 Cats, Big Fat Quiz of the Year), born in Isleworth, West London.
1977 – Tom Hardy (46), English actor, producer and screenwriter (Venom, Legend, Bronson, The Dark Knight Rises), born in Hammersmith, London.
1984 – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (39), He is the younger son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, born in St Mary’s Hospital, London.
The day today
1940 – The tide turned in the Battle of Britain as the German air force sustained heavy losses inflicted by the Royal Air Force. The defeat was serious enough to convince Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to abandon his plans for an invasion of Britain. The day was chosen as “Battle of Britain Day”.
1960 – London introduced Traffic Wardens onto the streets of the capital.
1971 – Prince Charles joined the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, under the graduate entry scheme, as Acting Sub-Lieutenant. The Duke of Edinburgh, and his great-uncle, Lord Mountbatten, had both been at Dartmouth.
1997 – Google.com is registered as a domain name.
2014 – Phones 4u, which had more than over 600 stores throughout the United Kingdom, went into administration after EE, Vodafone, Orange & O2, the company’s final remaining suppliers, ended their contracts.
Today in music
1956 – Elvis Presley started a five-week run at No.1 on the US charts with ‘Don’t Be Cruel’. The track went on to become Presley’s biggest selling single, with sales over six million by 1961. This “double-sided hit” which had ‘Hound Dog’ on the B side, became the most successful on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. One side reached No.1 on the chart, the other No.2. The two titles spent a combined 55 weeks in the Top 100 in 1956-1957.
1962 – The Four Seasons started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Sherry’, it made No.8 in the UK. They became the first American group to have three No.1’s in succession.
1966 – The Small Faces were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘All Or Nothing’, their only No.1 hit. According to Kay Marriott, Steve Marriott’s mother, Steve wrote the song about his split with ex-fiancee Sue Oliver, though first wife Jenny Rylance states that Marriott told her he wrote the song for her as a result of her split with Rod Stewart.
1984 – Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s ‘Relax’ became the longest running chart hit since Engelbert Humperdink’s ‘Release Me’, after spending 43 weeks on the UK singles chart.
1990 – George Michael scored his second UK No.1 solo album with his second release ‘Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1’. The album went on to sell over 8 million copies worldwide.
Today in history
1830 – MP William Huskisson if the first passenger to be killed by a train when he is run over and fatally wounded by Robert Stephenson’s pioneering locomotive Rocket at Eccles on the day the Duke of Wellington opens the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.
1835 – Charles Darwin reaches the Galapagos Islands on HMS Beagle.
1859 – The death of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel who is considered “one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history” who designed many structures including the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol Temple Meads Train Station and Bath Spa Railway Station among many others.
1916 – Tanks were used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme, during World War I.
1928 – Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin while studying influenza.
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