July 12th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 193 of the year! Known as New Conversations Day and Etch A Sketch Day. If you were born today you were likely conceived the week of October 19th 2022.
2017 – Iceberg A-68 broke from the Larsen C Ice Shelf, along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. At the time, it was the largest iceberg in the world and the sixth-largest berg in three decades of records.
Todays birthdays
1966 – Annabel Croft (57), English tennis player, broadcaster (Eurosport, Sky Sport, BBC), born in Farnborough, Kent.
1969 – Alan Mullally (54), English cricket left-arm fast bowler (19 Tests, 58 wickets; 50 ODIs, 63 wickets), born in Southend-on-Sea, England.
1976 – Anna Friel (47), British actress (Brookside, Pushing Daisies), born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

1978 – Michelle Rodriguez (45), American actress (Fast and Furious, S.W.A.T), born in San Antonio, Texas.

1984 – Gareth Gates (39), English singer-songwriter and runner up in Pop Idol 2002, born in Bradford, England.
The day today
1963 – Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
1969 – Tony Jacklin became the first British golfer since 1951 to win the Open Championship.
1989 – Judy Leden became the first woman to cross the English Channel by hang glider. She was launched from a hot air balloon 13,500 ft above Dover and completed the flight in less than 30 minutes.
1993 – The musical “Sunset Boulevard” by Andrew Lloyd Webber opened at the Adelphi Theater in London. The show was incredibly popular and ran for 1,529 performances but had to be stopped due to losing money for being an expensive production.
2013 – Journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker died at the age of 87 after suffering from bronchial pneumonia. His TV career stretched nearly six decades and he was best known for his documentary series, Whicker’s World, which ran from 1959 to 1988 on both the BBC and ITV. On the same day… A military funeral was held for Fusilier Lee Rigby at Bury Parish Church in Greater Manchester. He was killed outside Woolwich Barracks in May by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale.
Today in music
1968 – Mickey Dolenz from The Monkees married Samantha Juste who he met when working in the UK on the BBC TV show Top Of The Pops.
1980 – Olivia Newton-John and the Electric Light Orchestra had the UK No.1 single with ‘Xanadu’, which was taken from the film of the same name. It gave Olivia Newton-John her third UK No.1 single.
1986 – Simply Red scored their first US No.1 single with ‘Holding Back The Years’. Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall wrote the song when he was seventeen, while living at his father’s house. The chorus did not come to him until many years later.
1988 – Michael Jackson arrived in the UK for his first ever-solo appearances. He performed a total of eight nights to 794,000 people.
1991 – Take That released their debut single ‘Do What U Like’ which was a commercial failure, peaking at No. 82 on the UK Singles Chart.
Historical events
927 – King Athelstan, (also spelled Aethelstan or Ethelstan), became the first West Saxon king to have effective rule over the whole of England. when various local kings accepted his overlordship at Eamont, in Cumbria.
1794 – British admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right eye at the siege of Calvi, in Corsica. Nelson was born at Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk.
1543 – England’s Henry VIII married Catherine Parr, his sixth and last wife, at Hampton Court Palace. Catherine was the fourth commoner Henry had taken as his consort, and she outlived him. She was also the most-married English queen, having a total of four husbands.
1690 – William of Orange defeated the deposed Catholic, King James II, at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1730 – The birth of Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company and credited with the industrialization of the manufacture of pottery. He was a prominent abolitionist, and is remembered for his ‘Am I Not a Man And a Brother?’ anti-slavery medallion.
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