August 29th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 241 of the year! Known as Chop Suey Day as well as More Herbs, Less Salt Day, Whiskey Sour Day and Lemon Juice Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of December 6th 2022 and your star sign is “Virgo”.
2020 – Caeden Thomson, aged 7, who was born 12 weeks early and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, climbed to the top of Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest mountain.
Todays birthdays
1958 – Sir Lenny Henry (65), British actor, comedian, singer, television presenter and writer (The Lenny Henry Show), born in Dudley, West Midlands.
1959 – Eddi Reader MBE (64), Scottish singer-songwriter, known for her work as frontwoman of Fairground Attraction (Perfect), born in Glasgow.
1969 – Joe Swail (54), Northern Irish former professional snooker player, bortn in Belfast.
1973 – Vincent Cavanagh (50), English singer and guitarist best known as a co-founder of British rock band Anathema, born in Liverpool.
1993 – Liam Payne (30), English pop singer (One Direction- “What Makes You Beautiful”), born in Wolverhampton.
The day today
1918 – Britain’s first police strike began at midnight, as 6000 policemen campaigned for better pay.
1923 – The birth of Richard Attenborough, English actor and director. He won two Academy Awards for Gandhi in 1982 and has also won four BAFTA Awards. As an actor he is perhaps best known for his roles in The Great Escape, 10 Rillington Place and Jurassic Park.
1981 – Vandals slashed the picture of Diana, Princess of Wales hanging at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
1986 – Britain’s oldest twins, May and Marjorie Chavasse, both received telegrams from the Queen, to celebrate reaching their 100th birthday.
2012 – The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. It was one of the largest multi-sport events ever held in the United Kingdom after the 2012 Summer Olympics. The mascot was called Mandeville after Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury.
Today in music
1994 – Oasis released their debut album Definitely Maybe which went on to spend 177 weeks on the UK chart. It also became the fastest selling debut album of all time in the UK and the album went on to sell over eight million copies worldwide.
1999 – Lou Bega went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Mambo No 5’, originally recorded and composed by Perez Prado in 1949.
2009 – The Los Angeles coroner confirmed Michael Jackson’s death was homicide, primarily caused by the powerful anaesthetic Propofol. The singer suffered a cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home in June, aged 50.
2018 – Ariana Grande was at No.1 on the UK album chart with her fourth studio album Sweetener. The album which features guest appearances from Pharrell Williams, Nicki Minaj and Missy Elliott also topped the US charts and won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album marking Grande’s first career Grammy win.
2019 – Noel Gallagher said he wanted to start a petition to break the Foo Fighters up. It followed Dave Grohl and co’s headline performance at the UK Reading Festival, at which the frontman and Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins told the crowd they wanted to start a petition to get Oasis to reunite.
Today in history
1782 – The British battleship HMS Royal George sank off Spithead with the loss of more than 900 crew while repairs were being carried out beneath the ship’s waterline.
1831 – Michael Faraday successfully demonstrated the first electrical transformer at the Royal Institute, London.
1833 – Legislation to settle child labour laws was passed in England. The legislation was called the ‘Factory Act’.
1842 – The Treaty of Nanking was signed between the British and the Chinese, ending the Opium War, and leasing the Hong Kong territories to Britain.
1895 – At the George Hotel, Huddersfield, twenty-one rugby clubs met to form the Northern Union. In 1922 the Union was renamed the Rugby League.
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