October 11th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 284 of the year! Known as National Fossil Day, Coming Out Day and Sausage Pizza Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of January 18th 2023. Your star sign is “Libra”.
1957 – The largest radio telescope in the world (at that time) was switched on at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire.
Todays birthdays
1937 – Bobby Charlton (86), English former footballer who played as an attacking-midfielder, central-midfielder and left-winger. Widely considered as one of the greatest players of all time, he was a member of the England team that won the 1966 FIFA World Cup, born in Ashington, Northumberland.
1956 – Neil Buchanan (67), English artist, photographer, and musician (Marseille), best known for his work on British children’s television show “Art Attack”, born in Aintree, Liverpool.
1957 – Dawn French (66), British actress (The Vicar of Dibley), comedian, presenter and writer (French and Saunders), born in Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, Wales.
1960 – Nicola Bryant (63), English actress best known for her role as Peri Brown, a companion to both the Fifth and Sixth Doctors, in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986, born in Guildford.
1992 – Cardi B [Belcalis Almanzar] (31), American rapper (“Bodak Yellow”; “I Like It”), born in Washington Heights, New York, United States.
The day today
1919 – The first airline meals were served on a Handley-Page flight from London to Paris. They were pre-packed lunch boxes at 3 shillings each (15p).
1957 – The largest radio telescope in the world (at that time) was switched on at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire.
1966 – The Post Office announced that all home and business addresses in Britain were to be allocated postcodes.
1982 – The Mary Rose, which had been the pride of Henry VIII’s English fleet until it sank in the Solent in 1545, was raised, by the Mary Rose Trust. It was one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
1987 – A huge sonar exploration of Loch Ness failed to find the world famous monster, known affectionately as Nessie.
Today in music
1962 – The Beatles made their first appearance on the UK singles chart with ‘Love Me Do’ which peaked at No. 4 on the chart.
1986 – Madonna was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the title track from her album. ‘True Blue’ her third UK No.1. The title came from a favorite expression of her then husband Sean Penn and was a direct tribute to him.
1997 – The Verve started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with their third album Urban Hymns. The band’s best-selling release features ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’, and ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’. It is currently ranked the 15th best-selling album in UK.
1997 – Elton John went to No.1 on the singles chart with ‘Candle In The Wind 97’ A re-write of his 1974 hit about Marilyn Monroe. This version was raising funds for the Diana, Princess of Wales charity, following her death in Paris. It went on to become the biggest selling single in the world ever.
2016 – Rod Stewart said he was “on cloud nine” after being knighted by the Duke of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace. The singer was honoured in the Queen’s birthday honours list in recognition of his services to music and charity.
Today in history
1216 – King John infamously lost the Crown Jewels while trying to cross The Wash estuary in 1216, and a scientist has now discovered that the maligned monarch’s treasure was seized by the sea as a result of a freakishly large and powerful tide.
1649 – After a ten-day siege, English New Model Army troops, under the command of Oliver Cromwell, stormed the town of Wexford, Ireland, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.
1738 – The birth of Arthur Phillip, English admiral and first governor of New South Wales, who founded the first penal colony at Sydney.
1899 – The start of the Boer War between the British Empire and the Republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal in southern Africa.
1958 – NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
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