July 14th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 195 of the year! Known as Mac & Cheese Day as well as Shark Awareness Day, Bastille Day (France) and Pandemonium Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of October 21st 2022.
2014 – The Rt. Rev. Libby Lane became the first female Church of England bishop, when she was consecrated Bishop of Stockport in a ceremony at York Minster.
Todays birthdays
1952 – Chris Cross [Allen] (71), English musician, best known as the bass guitarist in the new wave band Ultravox, born in Tottenham, London.
1958 – Anne Hegerty (65), British TV quiz show host (The Chase), born in London, England.
1971 – Bubba Ray Dudley [Mark LoMonaco] (52), American professional wrestler (WWF, WWE), born in New York City.
1975 – Taboo [Jaime Luis Gomez] (48), American rapper (Black Eyed Peas), singer, songwriter, actor, DJ and comic book writer, born in Los Angeles, California.
1988 – Conor McGregor (35), Irish professional mixed martial artist and former UFC Featherweight and Lightweight Champion, born in Dublin, Ireland.
The day today
1939 – The government announced that all infants and nursing mothers would get fresh milk free or at no more than two pence a pint.
1940 – World War II: Britain tackled the threat of a German invasion by forming the Home Guard – a part-time volunteer army, generally comprising men too old for national service.
1997 – Convicted murderer and former London gangster Reggie Kray married Roberta Jones at Maidstone Prison in Kent.
2001 – British tourists Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees are allegedly attacked while driving in the Northern Territory of Australia. Falconio’s body is never found but Lees later identifies Bradley Murdoch as the attacker and he is subsequently found guilty, although documentary makers and forensic experts continue to cast doubt on the conviction.
2006 – After an investigation into Italian match-fixing and bribing referees, Juventus are relegated to Serie B and stripped of the Italian championship titles they had won in 2004/05 and 2005/06.
Today in music
1982 – The movie premier for Pink Floyd’s The Wall was held at The Empire, Leicester Square, London, England. The film which centers around a confined rocker named Floyd “Pink” Pinkerton earned $22 million in its first year and won two British Academy Awards.
1986 – Madonna was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with her second No.1 ‘Papa Don’t Preach’. Madonna also had the UK No.1 album with ‘True Blue’.
1989 – Tom Jones lost a paternity suit and was ordered to pay $200 a week in child support to 27 year old Katherine Berkery of New York. The judge in the case was Judge Judy Sheindlin, who was still serving in her 15 year tenure as a New York Family Court judge before appearing in her court TV show, Judge Judy.
1997 – Walkers Spice Girls crisps went on sale in the UK, over 16 million bags were sold by the end of the year.
2006 – Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie had his nose broken when he was attacked in a hotel bar in Madrid in Spain. The singer had to postpone a Top Of The Pops recording due to the injuries.
Historical events
1766 – The official opening of the 137 mile long Grand Union Canal (Britain’s longest canal) that links London to Birmingham.
1782 – English composer Henry Purcell was appointed organist of the Chapel Royal, London.
1789 – The Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie finally completed his journey to the mouth of the great river he hoped would take him to the Pacific, but which turns out to flow into the Arctic Ocean. Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.
1865 – English mountaineer Edward Whymper leads first expedition to climb the Matterhorn (four die on the descent).
1867 – Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time, at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.
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