June 7th "2024" Daily Prep
Welcome to day 159, known as Isle of Man T.T. Bank Holiday, World Food Safety Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of September 14th in the previous year. Your star sign is Gemini and your birthstone is Pearl.
1977 – More than one million people lined the streets of London to watch the Royal Family on their way to St. Paul’s at the start of the Queen’s silver jubilee celebrations.
Todays birthdays
1940 – Tom Jones (84), Welsh singer (“Sexbomb”, “What’s New Pussycat?”, “Delilah”), born in Treforest, Pontypridd, Wales.
1952 – Liam Neeson (72), Northern Irish actor, (Schindler’s List, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Rob Roy), born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
1965 – Damien Hirst (59), English artist and art collector. He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep, and a cow) are preserved, sometimes having been dissected, in formaldehyde, born in Bristol.
1974 – Bear Grylls (50), British former SAS trooper who is a survival expert, adventurer, and television presenter, born in Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland.
1993 – George Ezra (31), English singer-songwriter (“Shotgun”, “Blame It on Me”), born in Hertford, Hertfordshire.
Famous deaths
2015 – Christopher Lee (b. 1922), English actor. He often portrayed vilains and appeared as Count Dracula in seven Hammer Horror films. His other major roles included Count Dooku in several Star Wars films and Saruman in both the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit.
The day today
1906 – Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania was launched at the John Brown Shipyard at Clydebank, Glasgow. At the time she was the world’s fastest and largest liner.
1939 – Queen Elizabeth I and George VI became the first king and queen of Great Britain to travel to the United States of America.
1946 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) resumed TV broadcasting for the first time since the end of WWII.
1990 – France, West Germany and Italy lifted a ban on British beef-on-the-bone after reaching a deal in Brussels.
2019 – Theresa May officially stepped down as the leader of the Conservative Party, but remained as Prime Minister until 22nd July when her successor was announced.
Today in music
1977 – The Sex Pistols held a party on a boat as it sailed down The River Thames in London. The Pistols performed ‘Anarchy In The UK’ outside The Houses Of Parliament resulting in members from the party being arrested when the boat docked later that day.
1987 – David Bowie played a concert in West Berlin in front of the Reichstag with the speakers pointing towards the nearby Berlin Wall where thousands of young East Berliners stood and listened.
1997 – Hanson started a three-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘MMMbop’. Originally called The Hanson Brothers, lead singer Zak Hanson was just 13-years-old at the time of the hit. One of the biggest debut singles of all time; reaching No.1 in 27 countries.
2002 – Virgin Records announced they had dropped Victoria Beckham after her debut solo album, which cost over £3 million to make, had sold only 50,000 copies.
2022 – Liam Gallagher was at No.1 on the UK chart with his third solo studio album C’mon You Know. It was preceded by the lead single ‘Everything’s Electric’, co-written by Dave Grohl, which charted at No.18 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Gallagher’s first solo single to reach the UK Top 20.
Today in history
1329 – Robert ‘the Bruce’, king of Scotland died. He earned a place in Scottish history for his legendary victory over the English at Bannockburn in 1314.
1535 – John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, was tried for treason (he was executed on 22nd June).
1628 – The Petition of Rights, one of England’s most famous constitutional documents and of equal value to the Magna Carta was granted the Royal Assent by Charles I. It set out specific liberties of the subject that the king was prohibited from infringing, including restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, the forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and restrictions on the use of martial law.
1778 – The birth of George Bryan Brummell, commonly known as ‘Beau’ Brummell. He was an iconic figure in Regency England and is credited with introducing, and establishing as fashion, the modern men’s suit, worn with a tie. He claimed he took five hours to dress, and recommended that boots be polished with champagne.
1862 – The United Kingdom and the United States agreed to suppress the slave trade.