October 4th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 277 of the year! Known as Ship in A Bottle Day, World Habitat Day, National Vodka Day and Taco Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of January 11th 2023 and your star sign is “Libra”.
2013 – 93 year old Clifford Dadson, from Cumbria become the oldest graduate in the UK after receiving an Arts degree from the Open University.
Todays birthdays
1947 – Ann Widdecombe (76), British politician and television personality (Celebrity Big Brother, Celebrity Fit Club), born in Bath, Somerset.
1958 – Anneka Rice (65), Welsh-born television (Challenge Anneka, Treasure Hunt) and radio presenter, born in Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
1959 – Chris Lowe (64), English musician, singer and songwriter, and co-founder of the synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys (Go West, It’s a Sin), which he formed with Neil Tennant in 1981, born in Blackpool.
1976 – Alicia Silverstone (47), American actress (Clueless, Batman and Robin), born in San Francisco, California.
1989 – Dakota Johnson (34), American actress (Fifty Shades film franchise), and daughter of Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson, born in Austin, Texas.
The day today
1911 – Britain’s first underground escalators were introduced. They connected the District Line and Piccadilly Line platforms at Earl’s Court underground station in London.
1958 – Aviation history was made when 2 British designed and built De Havilland Comet 4 airliners operated by BOAC (now British Airways) made the first scheduled jet passenger service flights across the North Atlantic.
1983 – The Scottish entrepreneur Richard Noble reached a world land speed record of 663.5mph at Nevada in his jet-powered car, Thrust II, now housed in the Coventry Transport Museum.
2000 – It was reported that Harry Potter author JK Rowling had donated a six figure sum to the National Council for One Parent Families.
2013 – London won the coveted title of number one ‘Crap Town’ in the UK, held for the previous decade by Hull, . Not only was Hull stripped of its title, it completely dropped out of the top 50. Less than 2 months later, Hull was named the UK’s next City of Culture, beating Leicester, Dundee and Swansea Bay to the right to hold the title in 2017.
Today in music
1962 – The Tornadoes were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the instrumental, ‘Telstar’, (named after a communication satellite). The track went on to be the first major hit from a UK act on the American chart also reaching No.1.
1968 – On the first night of a UK club tour Led Zeppelin (billed as The Yardbirds featuring Jimmy Page) appeared at the Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, supported by Terry Reid’s Fantasia, tickets cost 10/6. The Mayfair was a regular venue for up and coming acts, Pink Floyd Mott the Hoople, Def Leppard and AC/DC had all appeared at the club which was demolished in 2000.
1973 – The BBC broadcast the 500th edition of Top Of The Pops. On the show were Slade, Gary Glitter and The Osmond’s.
1980 – Queen started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Another One Bites The Dust.’
2007 – The Rolling Stones set a new record for the top grossing tour of all time with their “A Bigger Bang tour”. The tour which ran from late 2005 to August 2007, earned the band £247m, with The Stones playing to over 3.5 million people at 113 shows.
Today in history
1535 – The first complete English language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) was printed by London printer Miles Coverdale, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

1602 – Eighty Years’ War and the Anglo-Spanish War: A fleet of Spanish galleys are defeated by English and Dutch galleons in the English Channel.

1626 – The birth of Richard Cromwell, the second and last Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. He became Lord Protector on the death of his father Oliver Cromwell, but lacked his father’s authority. He tried to mediate between the army and civil society and allowed a Parliament containing many disaffected Presbyterians and Royalists to sit. The army made a threatening show of force against Richard, who formally renounced power nine months after succeeding.
1675 – The pocket watch patent was awarded to Dutch mathematician and scientist Christiaan Huygens. Huygens also patented the first pendulum clock in 1656.
1883 – The Boys’ Brigade was founded, in Glasgow, by Sir William Alexander Smith. The interdenominational Christian youth organisation combines drill and fun activities with Christian values. In May 1903, Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Association, became their vice-president. By 2003, there were 500,000 Boys’ Brigade members in 60 countries.
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