July 7th "2024" Daily Prep
Welcome to day 189 of the year! Known as World Chocolate Day, Tell The Truth Day, National Koi Day. If you were born today you were likely conceived the week of October 14th in the previous year. Your star sign is Cancer and your birthstone is Ruby.
2013 – Andy Murray won his first Wimbledon title and ended Britain’s 77 year wait for a men’s champion with a victory over world number one Novak Djokovic. The Scot won 6-4, 7-5 and 6-4.
Todays birthdays
1940 – Ringo Starr (83), British drummer, vocalist (The Beatles – “Yellow Submarine”), songwriter (“Early 1970”; “Photograph”), actor (Caveman), born in Dingle, Liverpool.
1941 – Bill Oddie (83), English actor (member of comedy trio The Goodies), writer and conservationist (Springwatch) and ornithologist, born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
1944 – Tony Jacklin (80), English golfer (winner of the British Open 1969 and US Open 1970), born in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.
1965 – Jeremy Kyle (59), English broadcaster and writer (The Jeremy Kyle Show), born in Reading, Berkshire.
1988 – Jack Whitehall (36), actor (Bad Education), comedian, writer, and television personality, born in London.
Famous deaths
2016 – Caroline Aherne (b. 1963), English actress and comedian (The Royle Family, The Mrs Merton Show, The Fast Show).
The day today
1967 – England’s round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. For the ceremony, the Queen used a sword that had originally belonged to Sir Francis Drake.
1981 – The Church of England decided that divorcees would be allowed to re-marry in a church ceremony.
1985 – German tennis player Boris Becker, an unseeded 17 year old, became the youngest player to win the men’s singles championship at Wimbledon.
2005 – A series of four co-ordinated explosions occurs on the London transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
2010 – Marksmen searched empty buildings, woods and fields in and around the town of Rothbury in Northumberland in the hunt for suspected gunman Raoul Moat, wanted over the shooting of three people the previous weekend.
Today in music
1966 – The Kinks were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with “Sunny Afternoon”, the group’s third and last UK No.1.
1971 – 26-year-old pop star Bjorn Ulvaeus and 21-year-old Agnetha Faltskog married in Verum, Sweden. 3000 ABBA fans arrived and in the chaos a police horse stepped on the brides foot, causing her slight injury.
1984 – Prince started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with “When Doves Cry”, his first US No.1 which went on to sell over 2 million copies, it made No. 4 in the UK.
1999 – It was reported that to attract young people to their mobile vans UK ice cream sellers would start to play pop hits as music instead of the traditional chimes. Spice Girls and Oasis hits would be the first to be played.
2007 – Ozzy Osbourne became the first artist to be honoured on Birmingham’s own Hollywood-style Walk of Fame. The singer, from Aston, told more than 1,000 fans on Broad Street that the brass paving star meant more to him that than any Hollywood accolade.
Today in history
1307 – England’s King Edward I, conqueror of Wales and ‘Hammer of the Scots’ died on the Solway Burgh Marshes on the way to Scotland to fight Robert the Bruce. He was succeeded by Edward II.
1575 – The Raid of the Redeswire took place at Redesdale in Northumberland. It was the last major battle between England and Scotland.
1667 – An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1668 – Sir Isaac Newton gained a master’s degree from Trinity College, Cambridge.
1865 – Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are executed for their role in the conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln