August 27th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 239 of the year! Known as Banana Lovers Day, The Duchess Who Wasn’t Day and Just Because Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of December 4th 2022 and your star sign is “Virgo”.
1900 – Britain’s first long distance bus service began between London and Leeds. The journey took 2 days!
Todays birthdays
1956 – Glen Matlock (67), British punk rock bassist (The Sex Pistols; The Philistines), born in Paddington, London.
1961 – Mark Curry (62), English actor as well as a television and radio presenter (Blue Peter; Catchphrase), born in Stafford, West Midlands.
1970 – Peter Ebdon (53), English former snooker player, born in Islington, London.
1972 – Denise Lewis DBE (51), British sports presenter and former track and field athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon, born in West Bromwich, West Midlands.
1978 – Suranne Jones (45), English actress (Karen McDonald in Coronation Street between 2000 and 2004), born in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
The day today
1900 – Britain’s first long distance bus service began between London and Leeds. The journey took 2 days!
1950 – For the first time in history, the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) transmitted a two-hour-long live broadcast from Calais, France, to television screens in the UK.
1966 – Francis Chichester began the first solo circumnavigation of the world, when he set out from Plymouth in a de Havilland DH.60 (GIPSY) Moth.
1967 – Brian Epstein died, from an accidental overdose of brandy and barbiturates. He managed The Beatles and worked with Gerry and The Pacemakers, The Fourmost, Billy J. Kramer and Cilla Black.
2003 – Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years. The last time it came so close is estimated to have been on September 12, 57,617 BC.
Today in music
1966 – The Beach Boys ‘God Only Knows’ peaked at No.2 on the UK singles chart. The song broke new ground in many ways. It was one of the first commercial songs to use the word ‘God’ in its title and Brian Wilson used many unorthodox instruments, including the French horns that are heard in the song’s famous introduction.
1988 – ‘Monkey’ gave George Michael his eighth US No.1 single of the 1980s, a record only beaten by Michael Jackson.
1994 – Boyz II Men started a 14 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘I’ll Make Love To You’, a No.5 hit in the UK. The record- breaking 14 week stay came to an end when they knocked themselves from the top with ‘On Bended Knee’.
1999 – The Charlatans, Blur, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Offspring, Catatonia, Reef, The Chemical Brothers, The Divine Comedy, Pavement, Silverchair, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion all appeared at The Carling Reading three day festival, England, tickets, £78.
2013 – Miley Cyrus’s risque performance at the MTV VMAs drew complaints from a parenting pressure group in the US, which saw her dance suggestively in a nude bikini with singer Robin Thicke. It argued the show should not have been rated as suitable for 14 year olds.
Today in history
1776 – The British defeat Americans in the Battle of Long Island.
1877 – Birthday of The Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, English motor manufacturer. In 1906 he formed a partnership with Henry Royce to manufacture luxury cars.
1883 – Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions almost completely destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1955 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published in Great Britain.
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