October 22nd "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 295 of the year! Known as International Stuttering Awareness Day & National Colour Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of January 29th 2023. Your star sign is “Libra”.
1983 – The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) held its biggest ever protest against nuclear missiles in London, with an estimated one million people taking part.
Todays birthdays
1938 – Christopher Lloyd (85), American actor best known for his role as Emmett “Doc” Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, born in Stamford, Connecticut, United States.
1949 – Arsène Wenger (74), French former football manager (Arsenal from 1996 to 2018) and current FIFA’s Chief of Global Football Development, born in Strasbourg, France.
1952 – Jeff Goldblum (71), American actor (Independance Day, Jurassic Park, The Fly), born in West Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States.
1968 – Shaggy (55), Jamaican Grammy Award-winning reggae rapper and songwriter (“It Wasn’t Me”, “Boombastic”,), born in Kingston, Jamaica.
1972 – Saffron Burrows (51), British-American actress who has appeared in films such as Circle of Friends, Wing Commander, Deep Blue Sea, Gangster No. 1, Enigma, Troy, Reign Over Me and The Bank Job, born in Saint Pancras, London.
The day today
1910 – American born Doctor Hawley Crippen was convicted at the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London of poisoning his wife Cora. Crippen was hung on November 23rd at Pentonville prison.
1930 – The BBC Symphony Orchestra played their first concert, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult at the Queen’s Hall, London.
1969 – Paul McCartney publicly declared he’s not dead. Rumors broke out that the Beatles star had died in a car crash in 1966 and that he was replaced with a lookalike. He denied these rumors in an interview with BBC.
1986 – The world’s youngest heart transplant patient, a two-and-a-half-month-old baby from north west London, was given the heart of a five-day-old Belgian boy by Professor Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital, Middlesex.
2013 – Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall was stripped of his OBE by the Queen after he was jailed for a series of sexual assaults on young girls. In June, Hall, aged 83, admitted 14 counts against girls aged from nine to 17 between 1967 and 1985. The Queen directed that the honour should be “cancelled and annulled” and his name be “erased” from the register.
Today in music
1964 – Sandie Shaw had her first UK No.1 single with the Burt Bacharach song ‘(There’s) Always Some Thing There To Remind Me’.
1988 – U2 scored their fourth UK No.1 album with the double set and film soundtrack ‘Rattle And Hum’, featuring their first UK No.1 single ‘Desire’.
2000 – George Michael paid £1.45m for the Steinway piano on which John Lennon wrote ‘Imagine’. George said, “I know that when my fingers touch the keys of that Steinway, I will feel truly blessed. And parting with my money has never been much of a problem, just ask my accountant.” The singer outbid Robbie Williams and The Oasis brothers.
2005 – Waterloo by ABBA was voted the best song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. Viewers in 31 countries across Europe voted during a special show in Copenhagen to celebrate the annual event’s 50th birthday.
2021 – Adele returned to the UK Singles Chart after a five-year absence when her single ‘Easy on Me’ entered the chart at No.1. Adele also set a new chart record with the single as ‘Easy On Me’ racked up 24 million streams in the UK in its first week of release, the most streams for a song in one week.
Today in history
1707 – Four British Royal Navy ships ran aground near the Isles of Scilly. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and more than 1,400 sailors drowned in one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of Britain. It was later determined that the main cause of the disaster was the navigators’ inability to accurately calculate their positions.
1797 – The world’s first recorded parachute jump occurred from 3,300 feet (1,000 m) above Paris. The parachutist, André-Jacques Garnerin, was a student of one of the earliest hot-air ballooning pioneers. He was the first person to make a parachute jump and the inventor of parachutes. Garnerin ascended using a hot air balloon, cut his connection to the balloon, and descended in the basket using his prototype parachute.
1877 – An explosion at the Blantyre mine in Scotland killed 207 miners the youngest aged 11. It remains Scotland’s worst mining accident.
1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (lasting 131⁄2 hours before burning out).
1884 – The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world’s prime meridian.
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