August 3rd "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 215 of the year! Known as Clean Your Floors Day, Watermelon Day as well as Grab Some Nuts Day. If you were born today, you were likely conceived the week of November 10th 2022 and have the star sign “Leo”.
1926 – Manually operated three-colour traffic lights were first used in Piccadilly, London with automatic traffic lights making their first appearance on an experimental basis in Princes Square, Wolverhampton, during November 1927.
Todays birthdays
1946 – Jack Straw (77), British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, born in Essex, England.
1963 – James Hetfield (60), American heavy metal rocker (Metallica), born in Downey, California.

1967 – Skin [Deborah Anne Dyer] (56), British singer (“Weak”, “Hedonism” – Skunk Anansie), songwriter and electronic music DJ, born in Brixton, London.

1970 – Gina G (53), Australian singer (“Ooh Aah… Just A Little Bit “) who represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996, born in Brisbane, Australia.
1973 – Stephen Graham (50), English actor (Snatch, This is England, Boiling Point), born in Kirkby, Merseyside, England.
The day today
1916 – Sir Roger Casement, Irish nationalist, was hanged in London for treason, following his attempts to induce Germany to support the cause of Irish independence.
1926 – Britain installed its first traffic lights – at Piccadilly Circus, in London.
1963 – The Beatles performed at The Cavern Club (on 10, Mathew Street, Liverpool), for the 292nd, and last time. They received a fee of £300 pounds for the performance.
2002 – The death of Carmen Silvera, Canadian-born British comic actress who starred in the television programme, ‘Allo Allo!’ (written by David Croft & Jeremy Lloyd) as Edith Artois, wife of the cafe owner René.
2017 – Brazilian footballer Neymar transfers from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record transfer fee of €222m on a 5-year deal.
Today in music
1971 – Paul McCartney announced the formation of his new group Wings with his wife Linda and former Moody Blues guitarist and singer Denny Laine.
1985 – Madonna scored her first UK No.1 single with ‘Into The Groove’. The track was taken from the movie ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’ which featured Madonna and Rosanna Arquette. Also on this day, Tears For Fears started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Shout’, the duo’s second US No.1.
1996 – Los Del Rio started a 14 week run at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘Macarena’. The song which has sold 11 million copies world-wide was ranked the No.1 Greatest One Hit Wonder of all Time by VH1 in 2002.
2007 – Queen guitarist Brian May handed in his astronomy PhD thesis – 36 years after abandoning it to join the band. May had recently carried out observational work in Tenerife, where he studied the formation of “zodiacal dust clouds”.
2008 – Kid Rock was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘All Summer Long’. The song is based on Warren Zevon’s ‘Werewolves of London’ and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Sweet Home Alabama’.
Historical events
1100 – King William II of England, (often known as William Rufus) son of William the Conqueror, was killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest after allegedly being mistaken for a deer.
1610 – English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay in north eastern Canada, thinking that he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.
1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place. On 4th July earlier that year the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
1784 – The first specially-built Royal Mail coach began its scheduled service from Bristol to London.
1895 – The death (aged 37) of Joseph Thomson, Scottish geologist and African explorer. Thomson’s Gazelle and Thomson’s Falls (Kenya) are named after him.
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