August 2nd "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 214 of the year! Known as Colouring Book Day as well as Ice Cream Sandwich Day. If you were born today, you were likely conceived the week of November 9th 2022 and have the star sign “Leo”.
1985 – England captain David Gower scores his 5,000th run in Test cricket during the drawn fourth Test v Australia at Old Trafford.
Todays birthdays
1962 – Lee Mavers (61), English singer (The La’s – “There she goes”), songwriter and guitarist, born in Liverpool, England.
1976 – Sam Worthington (47), English – Australian actor (Terminator Salvation, Avatar, Clash of the Titans) born in Surrey, England.

1977 – Edward Furlong (46), American actor, (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, American History X) born in Glendale, California.

1979 – Donna Air (44), English actress, television presenter (Byker Grove, The Big Breakfast) and media personality born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
1992 – Charli XCX (31), English singer-songwriter (“Boom Clap” – The Fault In Our Stars Soundtrack), born in Cambridge, England.
The day today
1922 – The death of Alexander Graham Bell, the Scottish scientist who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
1985 – England captain David Gower scores his 5,000th run in Test cricket during the drawn fourth Test v Australia at Old Trafford.
1989 – Trade restrictions between Britain and Argentina were lifted for the first time since the 1982 Falklands war.
2014 – 49 year old Stuart Kettell completed his challenge to push a Brussels sprout up Snowdon using his nose. It took him 3 days and he raised more than £6000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
2018 – Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.
Today in music
1975 – The Eagles went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘One Of These Nights’, the group’s second US No.1 single and the first to chart in the UK where it peaked at No.23.
1986 – Peter Cetera started a two-week run at No.1 on the US charts with the theme from the film ‘Karate Kid II’, ‘The Glory Of Love’, it made No. 3 in the UK.
2000 – Jerome Smith from KC and the Sunshine Band died after being crushed by a bulldozer he was operating. Had the 1975 US No.1 single ‘Get Down Tonight’ and the 1983 UK No.1 single ‘Give It Up.’
2005 – Status Quo filmed a cameo appearance in UK’s Coronation Street playing themselves. Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt were set to appear in three episodes of the long-running ITV soap.
2019 – Ed Sheeran broke U2’s tour record when his Divide tour became the biggest, most attended and highest grossing tour of all time. By the time the tour ended he would have spent 893 days on the road, compared to the 760 days U2 toured. Sheeran also surpassed Bono and co’s tour attendance record of 7.3 million with a gig in France in May of the same year.
Historical events
1274 – Edward I of England returns from the Ninth Crusade and is crowned King seventeen days later.
1865 – Lewis Carroll publishes “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. On the same day, Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern between Great Britain and America snaps and is lost.
1870 – Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London
1880 – British Parliament officially adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
1939 – Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
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