August 22nd "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 234 of the year! Known as Be An Angel Day & Tooth Fairy Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of November 29th 2022 and have the star sign “Leo”.
2014 – ‘Upton Chippie’ in Gainsborough, which uses a coal-fired range and a 66 year old batter recipe, was listed alongside the finest restaurants in Britain in the Good Food Guide.
Todays birthdays
1957 – Steve Davis OBE (66), English retired professional snooker player, born in Plumstead, London.
1969 – Stephen Cradock (54), English guitarist, most notable for playing in the rock group Ocean Colour Scene (“The Day We Caught the Train”), born in Solihull, West Midlands.

1975 – Sheree Murphy (48), English actress (Tricia Dingle – Emmerdale; Eva Strong – Hollyoaks), born in Stoke Newington, London.

1978 – James Corden OBE (45), English actor (Smithy – Gavin and Stacey), born in Hillingdon, West London.
1995 – Dua Lipa (28), English and Albanian singer and songwriter (Levitating; One Kiss, New Rules), born in London.
The day today
1962 – The first live TV appearance of the Beatles was recorded by Granada, in a lunchtime session at The Cavern Club, Liverpool.
1989 – British Telecom launched the world’s first mobile phones. They had a very limited operating range that restricted their use to 100 yards from a public base station.
2004 – Two gunmen stole Edvard Munch’s paintings “The Scream” and “Madonna” from Much Museum in Oslo, Norway. The two pieces were safely recovered in August 2006.
2014 – ‘Upton Chippie’ in Gainsborough, which uses a coal-fired range and a 66 year old batter recipe, was listed alongside the finest restaurants in Britain in the Good Food Guide. Its first owner, Kathleen Longden, ran the shop for 55 years, before being succeeded by family members.
2015 – A vintage Hawker Hunter jet aircraft crashed during a display at the Shoreham Air show (West Sussex) killing 11 people and injuring 16 others.
Today in music
1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience appeared on the UK BBC TV Simon Dee show. Kiki Dee and Cat Stevens were also guests on the show.
1968 – Ringo Starr quit The Beatles during The White Album sessions when the constant bickering and tension became too much for him.
1970 – Bread went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Make It With You’, the group’s only No.1 hit, which was a No.5 in the UK. Many artists have covered the song including: The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind & Fire, Dusty Springfield, Andy Williams, and Marc Cohn.
1987 – Madonna went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Who’s That Girl’, her sixth US No.1 and also a No.1 in the UK. The track was from the soundtrack album of the motion picture of same name.
1999 – Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell scored her first UK No.1 solo single with ‘Mi Chico Latino’ the second single from her debut solo album Schizophonic.
Historical events
565 AD – St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness. It was the first reported sighting of the monster. The loch is Scotland’s second largest loch by surface area after Loch Lomond, but, due to its great depth, it is the largest by volume.
1138 – The English defeated the Scots at Cowton Moor. Banners of various saints were carried into battle, which led to its being called the Battle of the Standard.
1485 – Richard III of England was defeated and killed at The Battle of Bosworth Field, in the last of the Wars of the Roses between the Houses of Lancaster and York. He was the last English king to die in battle. He was reinterred in Leicester Cathedral on 26th March 2015 after his body was discovered under what had become a car park.
1642 – The English Civil War began, between the supporters of Charles I (Cavaliers) and of Parliament (Roundheads), when the king called the English Parliament traitors and raised his standard at Nottingham.
1780 – James Cook’s ship HMS Resolution returned to England; Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage.
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