October 5th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 278 of the year! Known as World Teachers Day, National Apple Betty Day and Do Something Nice Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of January 12th 2023 and your star sign is “Libra”.
1936 – The start of the ‘Jarrow March’ – around 200 unemployed shipyard workers from Jarrow in north east England began walking to London to protest about the lack of jobs. The protestors arrived on 31st October.
Todays birthdays
1947 – Brian Johnson (76), British singer and songwriter, currently the lead singer of the rock band AC/DC (Thunderstruck, Back in Black), born in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
1951 – Bob Geldof KBE (72), Irish singer-songwriter (Boomtown Rats – “I Don’t Like Mondays”) and political activist, born in Dunleary, Ireland.
1952 – Harold Faltemeyer (71), German musician, composer and record producer. Faltermeyer is best known for composing the “Axel F” theme for the feature film Beverly Hills Cop, an influential synth-pop hit in the 1980s, born in Munich, Germany.
1975 – Kate Winslet CBE (48), English actress (Titanic, Avatar: The Way of Water, Divergent) and the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, born in Reading.
1985 – Nicola Roberts (38), British pop singer with Girls Aloud (Sound of the Underground, Can’t Speak French), born in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
The day today
1962 – Dr No, the first James Bond film, was released. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name it starred Sean Connery as the secret agent 007. The film was produced with a low budget, the first of a successful series of 22 Bond films. A 23rd – ‘Skyfall’, with Daniel Craig as James Bond was premiered in London on 23rd October 2012, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the series.
1967 – For the first time in Britain, a court in Brighton accepted a ‘majority verdict’ from a jury instead of the usual ‘unanimous verdict’ required previously.
1969 – The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on BBC. In all, 45 episodes were created over four series, from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes for German TV. The series’ theme song was the first segment of John Philip Sousa’s The Liberty Bell, chosen because it was in the public domain and was free to use without charge.
1984 – Police and Customs in Essex seized Britain’s biggest ever haul of cannabis made in a single raid, (4.3 tons), with an estimated street value of almost £11 million.
2015 – The government imposed a new law in England, which required that all supermarkets (or large businesses employing 250 or more full-time equivalent employees in total) must levy a charge of 5p per ‘single-use’ plastic carrier bag used by customers, including plastic bags used for deliveries.
Today in music
1974 – Mike Oldfields ‘Tubular Bells’ went to No.1 for the first time on the UK album chart 15 months after being released. It went on to sell over 10 million copies worldwide.
1984 – Queen played the first of nine concerts at the Sun City Super Bowl, Sun City, Republic of Bophuthatswana (integrated into South Africa’s North West Province in 1994). The 1984 ‘The Works’ tours saw the reintroduction of older material to Queen’s live set, including songs from the first three albums.
1996 – ‘Breakfast At Tiffany’s’ by American group Deep Blue Something was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. The song is a reference to the classic 1960 Audrey Hepburn film of the same name.
2000 – Top Of The Pops issued a Top 40 chart based on singles that had spent the longest time on the UK chart. No.3 was ‘My Way’ by Frank Sinatra, No.2 ‘She Loves You’, The Beatles and No.1 ‘Relax’ by Frankie Goes To Hollywood’.
2008 – Pink started a three week run at No.1 on the UK singels chart with ‘So What’, the singers third UK No.1 hit.
Today in history
1796 – Spain declared war on Britain in the Napoleonic Wars.
1895 – The first individual time trial for racing cyclists was held on a 50 mile course north of London.
1905 – The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.
1930 – Britain’s R101 airship crashed in France on its maiden voyage. The airship, developed by the British Air Ministry, was one of two airships designed by Britain. It was on its way to India when it crashed, killing 48 people and putting an end to Britain’s airship industry.
1936 – The start of the ‘Jarrow March’ – around 200 unemployed shipyard workers from Jarrow in north east England began walking to London to protest about the lack of jobs. The protestors arrived on 31st October.
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