October 24th"2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 297 of the year! Known as Bologna Day, World Tripe Day and Food Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of January 31st 2023. Your star sign is “Scorpio”.
2003 – The legendary supersonic aircraft, Concorde, landed for the final time amid emotional scenes at Heathrow airport. The final transatlantic flight, ending 27 years of supersonic history, carried 100 celebrities from New York.
Todays birthdays
1936 – Bill Wyman (87), English musician who was the bassist for the rock band the Rolling Stones (Satisfaction, Jumpin’ Jack Flash), from 1962 to 1993, born in Lewisham, London.
1957 – Sarah Greene (66), British television presenter and actress (Blue Peter, 1980-83; Going Live!), born in St Pancras, London.
1966 – Roman Abramovich (57), Russian-Israeli oil magnate and former owner of Chelsea FC, born in Saratov, Russia.
1980 – Monica (43), American singer (The Boy Is Mine), rapper and actress, born in College Park, Georgia, United States.
1985 – Wayne Rooney (38), English professional football manager and former player (Everton, Manchester United and England) and current manager of EFL Championship club Birmingham City, born in Croxteth, Liverpool.
The day today
1908 – Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel were sent to prison for ‘inciting the public to rush the House of Commons’. Two Cabinet ministers were witnesses for the defence including Lloyd-George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer.
1969 – British actor Richard Burton bought his wife, American actress Elizabeth Taylor, a 69.42 carat diamond costing more than half a million pounds.
1987 – Heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno knocked out Joe Bugner in Britain’s most hyped boxing match, held at White Hart Lane, London. Bruno took home £750,000, Bugner got £250,000.
2003 – The legendary supersonic aircraft, Concorde, made its last commercial passenger flight amid emotional scenes at Heathrow airport. Concorde was retired after 27 years due to a general downturn in the aviation industry after the 11th September terrorist attacks in 2001 and a decision by Airbus to discontinue maintenance support.
2012 – Sir Norman Bettison resigned as chief constable of West Yorkshire Police, saying that an inquiry into his role after the Hillsborough football tragedy of 1989 was ‘a distraction’ to the force. At the time he was a South Yorkshire Police inspector who attended the match as a spectator and later took part in an internal inquiry. He denied claims that he helped ‘concoct’ a false version of events.
Today in music
1979 – Paul McCartney received a medallion cast in rhodium after being declared the most successful composer of all time. From 1962 to 1978, McCartney had written or co-written 43 songs that had sold over a million copies each.
1987 – Michael Jackson started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Bad’, a No.3 hit in the UK. A music video for ‘Bad’, directed by Martin Scorsese and co-starring one of the first appearances of yet-undiscovered Wesley Snipes, was released in late 1987.
1999 – Westlife went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Flying Without Wings’. It made the Irish boy band only the third act to debut at No.1 with their first three singles, B*Witched and Robson and Jerome being the other two.
2004 – Queen became the first rock act to receive an official seal of approval in Iran. Western music was still strictly censored in the Islamic republic, where homosexuality is considered a crime. Freddie Mercury, was proud of his Iranian ancestry, and illegal bootleg albums and singles had made Queen one of the most popular bands in Iran.
2006 – Taylor Swift released her self-titled debut studio album. Swift was 16 years old at the time of the album’s release and the album went on the top the Country Albums Chart for 24 non-consecutive weeks selling over seven million copies. The album also became the longest-charting album on the Billboard 200 of the 2000s decade, remaining on the chart for 277 weeks in total.
Today in history
1537 – Henry VIII’s 3rd wife, Jane Seymour, died following the birth of future king, Edward VI.
1596 – The second Spanish armada sets sail to strike against England, but is smashed by storms off Cape Finisterre forcing a retreat to port.
1851 – William Lassell, an English astronomer born in Bolton, discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
1857 – The founding of the world’s first official football club, Sheffield FC, in Yorkshire, by a group of former students from Cambridge University.
1901 – Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Her motives were financial but she never made much money from her adventure. She died penniless and her funeral was paid for by public donations.
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