October 30th"2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 303 of the year! Known as RSPB Feed the Birds Day and Haunted Refrigerator Night. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of February 6th 2023. Your star sign is “Scorpio”.
1990 – English and French tunnellers met for the first time underneath the English Channel during the construction of the Channel Tunnel.
Todays birthdays
1945 – Henry Winkler (78), American actor best known for his role as Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli in the US series Happy Days, born in Manhattan, New York, United States.
1969 – Darrin Kenneth O’Brien AKA Snow (54), Canadian reggae musician, rapper and singer best known for his 1992 single “Informer”, born in North York, Toronto, Canada.
1972 – Jessica Hynes (51), also known as Jessica Stevenson, is a British actress best known for her role as Cheryl on the BBC sitcom, The Royle Family, born in London.
1981 – Ivana Marie “Ivanka” Trump (42), American businesswoman who is the second-born child of Donald Trump, born in Manhattan, New York, United States.
1989 – Vanessa White (34), British singer who rose to fame in 2008 as a singer in the girl group The Saturdays (Don’t Wanna Be Your Lover), born in Yeovil, Somerset.
The day today
1938 – Orson Welles’s radio dramatization of H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds was broadcast, causing great alarm though reports of a nationwide panic were unfounded as some listeners feared a genuine invasion from Mars.
1942 – Three British Royal Navy personnel – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard boarded the sinking German submarine U-559, and retrieved vital instruments and documentation which would later lead the Bletchley Park codebreakers to crack the German Enigma code. Brown was the only one of the three to survive when the submarine sank. All three received the George Cross Medal and Tommy Brown (aged 16 and too young to be at sea at the time ) is the youngest person to have ever received that award.
1960 – English surgeon Michael Woodruff performed Britain’s first successful kidney transplant, at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
1965 – English model Jean Shrimpton wore a miniskirt to the first day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival in Australia. The event became a milestone in the advancement of the mini as the defining fashion of the 1960s.
1979 – Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer and inventor of the wartime dam busting ‘bouncing bomb’ died. The pilots of 617 squadron used Derwent Reservoir in Derbyshire to practice their low level flying. There is a memorial to them at Derwent Dam.
Today in music
1968 – Marvin Gaye released ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’ which became his first US No.1 single. It was Marvin’s 15th solo hit and also his first UK No.1 single in March 69. Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1966, the single was first recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles as well as Gladys Knight & the Pips.
1970 – Hotlegs made their live debut supporting The Moody Blues at the Festival Hall, London. Their only hit ‘Neanderthal Man’ made No. 2 in July 1970. The members from the group went on to become 10cc.
1978 – Blondie released the single ‘Hanging on the Telephone’, as the second single from the album Parallel Lines. Written by Jack Lee from US West Coast power pop trio The Nerves. The song gave Blondie their first UK Top 10 hit.
2005 – Hundreds of people queued outside the Sheffield Arena to make sure of getting tickets to see a Sir Cliff Richard. By the time the tickets went on sale some fans had been outside the Arena for nine days, the concert was not until November 2006.
2015 – Adele went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Hello’, the lead track from her third album 25. The track was streamed 7.32 million times in its first week, breaking the streaming record previously held by Justin Bieber’s ‘What Do You Mean?’ The song also debuted at No.1 in Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia and Switzerland.
Today in history
130 AD – The Roman emperor Hadrian officially founded the city of Antinoöpolis in ancient Egypt.
1470 – Henry VI returns to the English throne after the Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle during the War of the Roses.
1485 – Henry Tudor, who was crowned Henry VII, founded the Tudor dynasty, ended the Wars of the Roses, used his children’s marriages to build alliances, and signed treaties that increased England’s power.
1925 – In his workshop in London, Scotsman John Logie Baird achieved the transmission of the first television pictures using the head of a dummy as his image source.. He then persuaded a 15 year old office boy, William Taynton, to sit in front of a camera, becoming the first live person captured on camera.
1944 – Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
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