July 5th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 186 of the year! Known as Mechanical Pencil Day, National Apple Turnover Day and Bikini Day. If you were born today you were likely conceived the week of October 12th 2022.
2012 – The Shard, Europe’s tallest building to date and ‘a gleaming feat of glass and gravity-defying engineering’, was officially unveiled in London.
Famous birthdays

1946 – Sir Paul Smith (77), British fashion designer (Paul Smith), born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England.

1950 – Huey Lewis [Hugh Anthony Cregg III] (73), American musician (Huey Lewis and the News), born in NYC, New York.

1966 – Gianfranco Zola (57), Italian footballer and coach (Chelsea), born in Oliena, Italy.

1979 – Shane Filan (44), Irish singer and songwriter (Westlife), born in Sligo, Ireland.
1988 – Joe Lycett (35), English comedian (Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back), born in Birmingham, England.
The day today
1945 – Churchill lost the General Election after leading Britain throughout World War II. Attlee’s Labour Party won 393 seats to the Tories’ 213.
1948 – The birth of Aneira Reece at Amman Valley Hospital in Carmarthenshire. She was the first baby born to be born under the National Health Service, just after the clocks chimed midnight. She was named Aneira, after the founding father of the NHS, Aneurin Bevan.
1996 – Dolly the sheep (d. 2003), the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, is born in Scotland.

2012 – Police apologised after a terror alert closed the M6 Toll for more than four hours. Armed officers, troops, firefighters and bomb disposal experts responded after a coach passenger saw smoke coming from another passenger’s bag. Police later confirmed that the device was an electronic cigarette which gives off a visible vapour.

2014 – The Tour de France cycle race made its first visit to the north of England. Day 1 started in Leeds and took in the town of Skipton.
Today in music

1963 – The Beatles played at the Plaza Ballroom in Dudley in the West Midlands. Appearing The Beatles was Denny and the Diplomats, led by Denny Laine, who went on to join the Moody Blues and eventually, Paul McCartney’s group Wings.

1969 – The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in London’s Hyde Park before an audience of 250,000, as a tribute to Brian Jones who had died two days earlier.
1999 – The Eurythmics announced their first world tour for more than 10 years and that all profits would be given to charity. The duo made the announcement from the Greenpeace boat ‘Rainbow Warrior’ moored on the River Thames in London.
2002 – It was reported that Dr Dre had become the richest music star after earning £62m in the last year, £37m from his own earnings plus £25m from his record label Aftermath.
2009 – Michael Jackson started a seven week run at No.1 on the UK album charts with The Essential Michael Jackson and was one of eight Jackson albums in the top twenty after the singers death on 25th June.
Historical events
1628 – English settlers establish town of St Michael (later Bridgetown) on Barbados.
1687 – Isaac Newton’s great work Principia published by Royal Society in England, outlining his laws of motion and universal gravitation.
1814 – Americans defeat British and Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario.
1841 – Thomas Cook opens first travel agency.
1887 – Columbia University 4’s crew becomes first American boat to win at London’s Henley Regatta (Visitors Challenge Cup).
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