October 2nd "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 275 of the year! Known as World Farm Animals Day, National Bookshop Day and Name Your Car Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of January 9th 2023 and your star sign is “Libra”.
1995 – British rock band Oasis released their second album, “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” The album sold a record 347,000 copies in its first week.
Todays birthdays
1948 – Trevor Brooking CBE (75), former England international footballer, manager, pundit spending almost all his footballing career at West Ham United making 647 appearances for the club, born in Barking, East London.
1950 – Mike Rutherford (73), English guitarist, bassist, songwriter and singer, best known as co-founder of the rock band Genesis (“I Can’t Dance”, “Jesus He Knows Me”), born in Guildford, Surrey.
1951 – Sting (72), British singer-songwriter and bassist (The Police – “Every Breath You Take”; solo – “Fragile”) and actor (Dune), born in Wallsend, Northumberland.
1955 – Philip Oakey (68), English singer, songwriter and record producer. He is the lead singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the synth-pop band the Human League (“Don’t You Want Me”, “Together in Electric Dreams”), born in Oadby, Leicestershire.
1974 – Simon Gregson (49), English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Steve McDonald in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, born in Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester.
The day today
1925 – London’s first red buses with roofed-in upper decks went into service, but they had been in use in Widnes, Cheshire, since 1909…. Also on this day, John Logie Baird (Scottish born engineer born at Helensburgh) performed the first test of a working television system.
1953 – A photograph of William Pettit, wanted for murder, was shown on BBC TV at the request of the police – the first time in Britain that television was used to help find a wanted man.
1968 – A woman gave birth to six babies in what was hailed as the first recorded case of live sextuplets in Britain.
1991 – Ron Chassidy (who had been jailed for not paying his poll tax) was released after a ‘whip-round’ at his local pub so that he could play in a dominoes match!
2020 – Two billionaire brothers from Blackburn won the battle to buy Asda from Walmart of the United States, in a deal valuing the supermarket chain at £6.8bn. Zuber and Mohsin Issa own EG Group (initially called Euro Garages) which was founded in 2001 on a single site in Bury, Greater Manchester. By 2020 they had more than 5,200 petrol stations across the UK, mainland Europe, the USA and Australia, along with 110 Starbucks stores and the largest franchise of KFC stores in the UK, with 125 sites.
Today in music
1983 – Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler was at No.1 on the US singles chart with the Jim Steinman written and produced track ‘Total Eclipse Of The Heart’. It made her the only Welsh artist to score a US No.1.
1995 – Oasis released their second album ‘(What’s The Story), Morning Glory’, which entered the UK chart at No.1. The album has gone on to sell over 18 million copies worldwide, and it won the award for the best British Album of the last 30 Years at the 2010 Brit Awards.
2002 – Robbie Williams signed the most lucrative British record deal in history when he signed with EMI records for £80m. Asked what he was going to do with money Robbie said, “I’m going to count it all.”
2006 – British singer, songwriter Katie Melua entered the Guinness Book of Records for playing the deepest underwater concert. This took palce 303 metres below sea level on the Norwegian Statoil’s Troll A platform in the North Sea. Melua and her band underwent extensive medical tests and survival training in Norway before the concert. Melua later described achieving the record as “the most surreal gig I have ever done”.
2009 – Mumford & Sons released their debut album ‘Sigh No More’ in the UK. It peaked at No. 2 on 20 February 2011, in its 72nd week on the chart following its Album of the Year win at the 2011 BRIT Awards. In early 2011, the album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in the US. In the United States, it was the 3rd most digitally-downloaded album of 2011, selling 761,000 copies
Today in history
1553 – The Coronation of Queen Mary I. She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. As the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, Mary is remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism and she had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian Persecutions.
1843 – The News of the World, Britain’s most popular Sunday newspaper, was first published. It was, at one time, the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, but amid a public backlash after allegations of phone hacking, News International announced the closure of the newspaper on 7th July 2011.
1861 – Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day.
1868 – The Midland Railway opened St. Pancras station in London. The first train arrived at 4:20am (the 10:05pm overnight mail train from Leeds).
1870 – The first British halfpenny postage stamp, in lilac, was issued.
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