July 7th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 188 of the year! Known as Global Forgiveness Day, World Chocolate Day and Tell The Truth Day. If you were born today you were likely conceived the week of October 14th 2022.

2013 – Andy Murray won his first Wimbledon title and ended Britain’s 77 year wait for a men’s champion with a victory over world number one Novak Djokovic. The Scot won 6-4, 7-5 and 6-4.

Famous birthdays
1940 – Ringo Starr (83), British drummer, vocalist (The Beatles – “Yellow Submarine”), songwriter (“Early 1970”; “Photograph”), actor (Caveman), born in Dingle, Liverpool, England.
1944 – Tony Jacklin (79), English golfer (British Open 1969, US Open 1970), born in Scunthorpe, England.
1965 – Jeremy Kyle (58), English radio and television presenter (The Jeremy Kyle Show), born in Berkshire, England.
1972 – Kristen Vangsness (50), American actress (Penelope Garcia in Criminal Minds) and writer, born in Pasedena, California.
1988 – Jack Whitehall (35), actor, comedian, writer, and television personality born in London, England.
The day today
1967 – England’s round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. For the ceremony, the Queen used a sword that had originally belonged to Sir Francis Drake.
1981 – The Church of England decided that divorcees would be allowed to re-marry in a church ceremony.
1985 – German tennis player Boris Becker, an unseeded 17 year old, became the youngest player to win the men’s singles championship at Wimbledon.
2010 – Marksmen searched empty buildings, woods and fields in and around the town of Rothbury in Northumberland in the hunt for suspected gunman Raoul Moat, wanted over the shooting of three people the previous weekend.
2014 – A precious hoard of Roman and Late Iron Age coins were discovered in a cave in Dovedale, Derbyshire, where it had lain undisturbed for more than 2,000 years.
Today in music
1966 – The Kinks were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Sunny Afternoon’, the group’s third and last UK No.1.
1971 – 26-year-old pop star Bjorn Ulvaeus and 21-year-old Agnetha Faltskog married in Verum, Sweden. 3000 ABBA fans arrived and in the chaos a police horse stepped on the brides foot, causing her slight injury.
1984 – Prince started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘When Doves Cry’, his first US No.1 which went on to sell over 2 million copies, it made No. 4 in the UK.
1999 – It was reported that to attract young people to their mobile vans UK ice cream sellers would start to play pop hits as music instead of the traditional chimes. Spice Girls and Oasis hits would be the first to be played.
2007 – Ozzy Osbourne became the first artist to be honoured on Birmingham’s own Hollywood-style Walk of Fame. The singer, from Aston, told more than 1,000 fans on Broad Street that the brass paving star meant more to him that than any Hollywood accolade.
Historical events
1307 – King Edward I of England died on his way to subdue the new Scottish king, Robert the Bruce.
1667 – An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1865 – Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold and George Atzerodt are executed for their role in the conspiracy to assassinate US President Abraham Lincoln.
1911 – The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
1952 – The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
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