August 18th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 230 of the year! Known as Never Give Up Day, Fajita Day, Pinot Noir Day and Bad Poetry Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of November 25th 2022 and have the star sign “Leo”. People born in August all have the Peridot birthstone.
1932 – Scottish aviator Jim Mollison made the first westbound solo transatlantic flight in a light aircraft when he arrived in New Brunswick after leaving Portmarnock in Ireland 30 hours earlier.
Todays birthdays
1936 – Robert Redford (87), American actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby), born in Santa Monica, California.

1958 – Madeleine Stowe (65), American actress (The Last of the Mohicans; We Were Soldiers) , born in Los Angeles, California

1961 – Huw Edwards (62), Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader. He presents BBC News at Ten, born in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales.

1969 – Edward Norton (54), American actor (American History X; Fight Club), born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1983 – Mika [Michael Holbrook Penniman] (40) British-American pop singer (Grace Kelly; Relax, Take It Easy), an Italian television personality, born in Beirut, Lebanon.
The day today
1941 – Britain’s National Fire Service was established.
1948 – Jockey Lester Piggott, aged 12, rode his first winner on only his seventh ride.
1949 – Adi Dassler founded Adidas after falling out with his brother… His brother went on to found Puma.
1962 – Ringo Starr joined The Beatles – Lennon, McCartney and Harrison – as drummer, and made his debut with them at the horticultural society dance in Birkenhead.
1969 – Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand during filming of Ned Kelly in Australia. The film was dogged by problems: Jagger’s girlfriend of the time, Marianne Faithfull, had gone to Australia to play the lead female role (Ned’s sister, Maggie), but the Jagger-Faithfull relationship was breaking up, and she took an overdose of sleeping tablets soon after arrival in Sydney resulting in being hospitalised in a coma, and pulling out of the film.
Today in music
1977 – The Police made their live debut as a three-piece band when they played at Rebecca’s Birmingham, England. The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and are generally regarded as one of the first New Wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock that was influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz.
1984 – George Michael was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with his first solo single ‘Careless Whisper.’ It made George the first person to reach No.1 as a solo artist and a member of a band in the same year. It gave Epic records UK their first UK million seller and the song was No.1 in nearly 25 countries, selling over six million copies worldwide.
1986 – Bon Jovi released their third studio album, Slippery When Wet, going on to sell over 28 million copies worldwide. The album featured two chart toppers, ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’ and ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’.
1991 – Sweet Jesus appeared at the Boardwalk, Manchester. Support act was The Rain (later to become Oasis) minus Noel Gallagher who had yet to join his brothers band.
2014 – Ed Sheeran’s album X (pronounced “multiply”) notched up eight weeks at No.1 on the UK chart, becoming the joint longest chart-topper by a male solo artist. The last man to achieve the feat was James Blunt for his 2005 collection Back to Bedlam.
Historical events
1587 – An expedition led by Sir Walter Raleigh landed at what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Seven days later, Virginia Dare, granddaughter of governor John White, became the first child of English parentage to be born in America.
1783 – A huge fireball meteor was seen across Britain. Analysis of observations indicated that the meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the North Sea, before passing over the east coast of Scotland and England and the English Channel.
1825 – Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing became the first European to reach Timbuktu, now in Mali. He was murdered there the following month.
1868 – French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
1923 – The first British Track and Field championships for women are held at the OXO sports ground in Bromley, London.
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