July 11th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 192 of the year! Known as National Mojito Day and World Population Day. If you were born today you were likely conceived the week of October 18th 2022.
1848 – London’s Waterloo Station was officially opened. With over 91 million passenger entries and exits between April 2010 and March 2011, it is Britain’s busiest railway station.
Todays birthdays
1960 – Caroline Quentin (63), English actress (Men Behaving Badly, Jonathan Creek), broadcaster and television presenter, born in Surrey, England.

1962 – Pauline McLynn (61), Irish actress (Father Ted, Shameless) and author, born in Sligo, Ireland.

1964 – Craig Charles (59), English actor (Red Dwarf), comedian, television (Robot Wars) and radio presenter.

1965 – Tony Cottee (58), former professional football player (West Ham United, Everton and Leicester City), born in Forest Gate, London, England.
1990 – Caroline Wozniacki (33), Danish professional tennis player born in Odense, Denmark.
The day today
1848 – Old Trafford (Manchester) became England’s 2nd official Test Match cricket ground (after the Kennington Oval in London).
1950 – Puppets Andy Pandy, Teddy and Looby Loo first appeared on BBC TV. The episodes were repeated for more than 25 years, until the film wore out.
1987 – War veterans returned to the scene of the bloodiest battle of World War I to commemorate its 70th anniversary. The fields of Passchendaele in Belgium claimed the lives of 250,000 troops of the British Commonwealth between July and November 1917.
2000 – The World Aids Conference in South Africa announced that trials for a new HIV vaccine would begin in Britain.
2013 – Greenpeace protesters climbed to the summit of London’s Shard and unfurled a blue flag with ‘Save the Arctic’ written on it.
Today in music
1981 – The Specials had their second and final UK No.1 single with ‘Ghost Town’. Despite being a song about Coventry, the band chose to film the video of themselves driving a Vauxhall Cresta around some empty London streets.
1982 – Phil Collen replaced Pete Willis in Def Leppard who was fired due to excessive alcohol consumption on the job.
1998 – Billie went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Because We Want To’. The 15 year old made chart history by becoming the second youngest female to score a No.1; Helen Shapiro was the youngest at 14 with the 1961 No.1 single ‘You Don’t Know’.
1999 – Ricky Martin started a three week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Livin’ La Vida Loca’. A US No.1 for 5 weeks. The song was the first No.1 song to be recorded, edited, and mixed totally on a DAW (digital audio workstation).
2004 – UK band McFly went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Room On The 3rd Floor.’ They broke the record set by The Beatles as the youngest group ever to debut at No.1 on the album charts.
Historical events
1274 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland was born. His body is buried in Dunfermline Abbey.
1576 – Yorkshire born explorer Martin Frobisher sighted Greenland. In all he made three voyages to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage. He was later knighted for his service in repelling the Spanish Armada.
1656 – Ann Austin and Mary Fisher became the first Quakers to arrive in America and were promptly arrested. Five weeks later they were deported, back to England.
1776 – Captain Cook sailed from Plymouth in the Resolution, accompanied by the Discovery, on his last expedition. He was killed in Hawaii in a fight with Hawaiians in 1779.

1859 – Big Ben, in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, tolled for the first time. In September it cracked under the hammer, two months after it officially went into service.

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