August 20th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 232 of the year! Known as Bacon Lovers Day, Lemonade Day and Radio Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of November 27th 2022 and have the star sign “Leo”.
2019 – NASA announced they would send a ship to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, to look for extraterrestrial life. The craft, named Europa Clipper, should be ready by 2023 and launch by 2025.
Todays birthdays
1948 – Robert Plant CBE (75), English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin, born in West Bromwich, West Midlands.
1961 – Joe Pasquale (62), English comedian, actor, television presenter and winner of the fourth series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, born in Grays, Essex.
1971 – David Williams OBE (52), English comedian (Little Britain), actor, writer, and television personality (X-Factor), born in Wimbledon, London.
1979 – Jamie Cullum (44), English jazz-pop singer, songwriter and radio presenter, born in Rochford, Essex.
1992 – Demi Lovato (31), American singer, songwriter, and actress, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States.
The day today
1956 – Calder Hall, Britain’s first nuclear power station, began operating.
1970 – England’s soccer captain, Bobby Moore, was cleared of charges of stealing, in a trial in Colombia.
1992 – The Daily Mirror published compromising photographs of Sarah Ferguson (the Duchess of York), sunbathing topless, on holiday in France with John Bryan, a Texan financial manager. The event contributed to her further estrangement from the Royal Family and after four years of official separation, the Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson announced the mutual decision to divorce, in May 1996.
2019 – NASA announced they would send a ship to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, to look for extraterrestrial life. The craft, named Europa Clipper, should be ready by 2023 and launch by 2025.
2020 – Hashem Abedi, aged 23 and the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, was jailed for at least 55 years for the murders of 22 people. He was convicted after a court heard that he was just as guilty as his brother, Salman Abedi, who had detonated the bomb and blew himself up at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on 22nd May 2017. Abedi refused to leave his cell at the Old Bailey for the sentencing. The judge said that it would be 55 years before Abedi could even be considered for parole and that he “may never be released”. The trial was the largest murder case in English legal history.
Today in music
1988 – Iron Maiden, Kiss, David Lee Roth, Megadeth, Guns N’ Roses and Helloween all appeared at this year’s ‘Monsters Of Rock’ Festival, Castle Donington, England. Two rock fans died while ‘slam dancing’ as Guns N’ Roses played.
2000 – Spiller went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Groovejet’. The Italian DJ and producer mixed the track based on an old 1970s hit ‘Love Is You’ by Carol Williams, with new vocals by Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
2004 – A man from Stoke-on-Trent, England, named Bryan Adams as the ‘other man’ in his divorce papers after years spent trying to cope with his wife’s obsession with the singer. Rob Tinsley said he had to live with a 6ft cut-out of Adams which stood at the foot of the bed and posters on the bedroom walls.
2006 – The Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at Twickenham Stadium on their ‘A Bigger Bang’ world tour. Feeder and The Charlatans also appeared.
2013 – It was reported that Beyoncé had spent almost £1,500 at an Essex branch of chicken chain Nando’s following her performance at the V Festival in the UK. The headliner’s receipt was posted on Twitter and Nando’s Chelmsford manager confirmed a member of Beyonce’s entourage called in with the order. The order included 48 whole chickens, 24 tubs of coleslaw, 58 chicken wing platters and 48 portions of chips. The receipt showed the meal was apparently paid for in cash.
Historical events
1612 – Nine Pendle witches are hanged at Gallows Hill in Lancaster.
1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace’s same theory.
1896 – The Erickson Brothers submitted the application for the first dial telephone patent. The patent (Number 597,062) was granted on January 11, 1898.
1913 – French pilot Adolphe Pegoud became the first person in Europe to jump from an aircraft using a parachute and land successfully. Also on this day… Harry Brearley of Sheffield cast the first stainless steel.
1940 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line “Never was so much owed by so many to so few”.
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