September 19th "2024" Daily Prep
Welcome to day 263 of the year! Known as Talk Like a Pirate Day, The Wales International Film Festival. Your star sign is Virgo and your birthstone is Sapphire.
2022 – The State Funeral for Her Majesty The Queen took place at Westminster Abbey. The Queen’s Coffin had been Lying-in-State since the evening of Wednesday 14th September.
Todays birthdays
1948 – Jeremy Irons (76), English actor (House of Gucci, Die Hard with a Vengeance, The Man in the Iron Mask), born in Cowes, Isle of Wight.
1949 – Lesley Lawson “Twiggy” (75), English model, actress, and cultural icon during the swinging ’60s, born in Neasden, London.
1952 – Nile Rodgers (72), American record producer, guitarist, composer and co-founder of “Chic” (“Le Freak”), born in New York, New York, United States.
1963 – Jarvis Cocker (60), English musician and founder, lyricist and only consistent member of the band Pulp (“Common People”, “Disco 2000”), born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
1974 – Victoria Silvstedt (50), Swedish model, actress, singer, and television personality, born in Skelleftehamn, Sweden.
Famous deaths
2007 – Colin McRae (b. 1968), Scottish race car driver (1991 and 1992 British Rally Champion, and the first British driver to win the World Rally Championship Drivers’ title in 1995.)
The day today
1945 – The Nazi propaganda broadcaster William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was sentenced to hang for treason.
1952 – The United States prevented the English born film legend Charlie Chaplin from returning to his Hollywood home until he was investigated by the Immigration Services.
1960 – Traffic wardens issued the first 344 parking tickets in London. Britain’s first parking ticket was issued to Dr. Thomas Creighton, who had parked his car outside a London hotel while treating a patient.
1975 – The first episode of Fawlty Towers aired on 19 September 1975. Audiences were keen to see what John Cleese would do after Monty Python, but at first the situation comedy received some less than enthusiastic reviews.
2022 – The State Funeral for Her Majesty The Queen took place at Westminster Abbey at 11:00am. Queen Elizabeth was the longest serving monarch of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, with a reign that lasted 70 years and 214 days. It was the longest recorded of any female head of state in history, and the second-longest verified reign of any monarch of a sovereign country in history, the longest being Louis XIV. His reign lasted for 72 years and 110 days.
Today in music
1969 – Creedence Clearwater Revival scored their only UK No.1 single with ‘Bad Moon Rising’.
1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival was held at Michael Eavis’s farm in Glastonbury, starring T. Rex. The first festivals in the 1970s were influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement.
1990 – Kylie Minogue’s ‘Better The Devil You Know’ gave producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman their 100th UK chart entry.
1992 – The Shamen started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Ebeneezer Goode’. One of the most controversial UK chart toppers due to its perceived subliminal endorsement of recreational drug use. The song was initially banned by the BBC.
1998 – Robbie Williams scored his first solo UK No.1 single with ‘Millennium’, taken from his from his second album, I’ve Been Expecting You.
Today in history
1356 – Led by Edward, the Black Prince, the English defeated the French, and captured the French king, John II at the Battle of Poitiers in the Hundred Years’ War. The battle resulted in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years’ War, the other two being Crécy, and Agincourt.
1783 – The Montgolfier brothers sent aloft a balloon with a rooster, a duck, and a sheep aboard, rapidly advancing French aeronautics.
1839 – Birth of George Cadbury, the chocolate manufacturer. A Quaker, he believed in taking care of the welfare of his workforce, and he created a model village for his employees at Bournville, Birmingham.
1851 – Birth of William Hesketh Lever. He changed the process of soap manufacture by using vegetable oils instead of tallow. Like George Cadbury he cared about the welfare of his workers, and established the new town of Port Sunlight in Merseyside, to house them.
1896 – Beginning of the Bombay bubonic plague epidemic when Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas detects the first case in Mandvi, Gujarat. By March 1897, hundreds of thousands of people had fled and the plague’s death toll stood at around 20,000.