July 29th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 210 of the year! Known as International Tiger Day, National Chicken Wing Day as well as Rain Day. If you were born today, you were likely conceived the week of November 5th 2022 and have the star sign “Leo”.
1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
Todays birthdays
1959 – John Sykes (64), English rock guitarist and singer (Thin Lizzy, 1983-2009; Blue Murder), born in Reading, England.
1966 – Sally Gunnell (57), British 400m hurdler, (Olympic gold 1992), born in Chigwell, England.
1972 – Wil Wheaton (51), American actor (Star Trek Next Generation, Stand By Me and appearences has himself in The Big Bang Theory), born in Burbank, California.
1981 – Fernando Alonso (42), Spanish racing driver (World Formula 1 Drivers Champion 2005-06; 24 Hours of Le Mans 2018-19; FIA World Endurance C’ship 2018-19), born in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain.
1990 – Joey Essex (33), English television personality (The Only Way Is Essex), born in Southwark, London.
The day today
1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
1948 – King George VI opened the 14th Olympic Games in London – the first time the Games had been held in 12 years, due to World War II.
1981 – A worldwide television audience of around 750 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
2008 – Weston-super-Mare Grand Pier burns down for the second time in 80 years. Following the 2008 fire, which completely destroyed the pavilion, the pier was rebuilt at a cost of £39 million and reopened on 23rd October 2010.
2014 – Clifford Hartland, aged 101, a Second World War prisoner camp survivor and his wife Marjorie, aged 97, died within hours of each other on their 76th wedding anniversary.
Today in music
1963 – Elvis Presley was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘(You’re The) Devil In Disguise’. His 14th UK No.1. In 1963, when the song was debuted to a British audience on the BBC television show Juke Box Jury, the celebrity guest John Lennon voted the song “a miss” stating on the new song that Elvis Presley was “like Bing Crosby now.”
1967 – The Doors started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with an edited version of ‘Light My Fire’. The group’s first US No.1, it only reached No.49 on the UK chart.
1986 – English songwriter, producer and manager Gordon Mills died of stomach cancer. Worked with Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones and Gilbert O’Sullivan. Wrote the 1963 No.4 UK hit ‘I’ll Never Get Over You’, for Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, and ‘I’m The Lonely One’ a hit for Cliff Richard.
1990 – Elton John checked into a Chicago clinic to cure bulimia and an addiction problem, taking over a year off from touring and recording.
2019 – ‘Old Town Road’, the viral rap song by Lil Nas X, became the longest-running No.1 in US chart history after it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 17 weeks, overtaking Luis Fonsi’s ‘Despacito’ and Mariah Carey’s ‘One Sweet Day’, which both spent 16 weeks at No.1.
Historical events
1567 – The infant James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English fleet damages and scatters the “Invincible” Spanish Armada, which is forced to make a long and costly retreat around Scotland and Ireland.
1833 – The death of William Wilberforce, English campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. He died a month before the Slavery Abolition Act was passed. The Wilberforce Monument is in Kingston upon Hull and His birthplace is now a museum.
1848 – The Tipperary Revolt took place in the village of Ballingarry, County Tipperary, in protest at British rule. After being chased by a force of Young Irelanders and their supporters, an Irish Constabulary unit raided a house and took those inside as hostages. A gunfight lasting for several hours followed, but the rebels fled after a large group of police reinforcements arrived.
1930 – The airship R100 began its first passenger-carrying flight from England to Canada.
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