October 7th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 280 of the year! Known as Bathtub Day, National LED Light Day, National Poetry Day and Frappé Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of January 14th 2023 and your star sign is “Libra”.

1946 – The BBC presented its first edition of Woman’s Hour, a daily programme of music, advice and entertainment for those in the home. The programme included an item on how to de-slime your flannels!
Todays birthdays
1957 – Jayne Torvill (66), English figure skater (Torvill & Dean, Olympic gold 1984), born in Nottingham, England.
1959 – Simon Cowell (64), English entrepreneur (X Factor and Got Talent television franchises), television personality, and record executive, born in Lambeth, London.
1967 – Toni Braxton (56), American R&B singer, songwriter (Un-Break My Heart, Breathe Again), born in Severn, Maryland, United States.
1978 – Alesha Dixon (44), English singer (Mis-Teeq – All I Want), rapper (Mis-Teeq – Scandalous), dancer and television personality, born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.
1996 – Lewis Capaldi (27), Scottish singer-songwriter (“Someone You Loved”), born in Glasgow, Scotland
The day today
1919 – The Netherlands’ flag carrier airline was founded under the name KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. KLM is the oldest airline in the world that operates under its original name. The airline’s first flight carried two journalists and some newspapers from London to Amsterdam on May 17, 1920.
1959 – Three hundred people were rescued after being cut off by a blaze on Southend’s pier, (the world’s longest pleasure pier on England’s south-east coast).
1992 – The first Braille cash dispenser was installed, by the Northern Rock Building Society in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
1986 – British Newspaper “The Independent” was first published.
2000 – Kevin Keegan resigns as England manager in the toilets at Wembley, saying he’s “not up to the job” after the team’s poor display against Germany.
Today in music
1966 – Johnny Kidd was killed in a car crash while on UK tour in Radcliffe, Manchester, aged 27. Pirates’ bassist Nick Simper, who later became an original member of Deep Purple, was also in the car with Kidd but he suffered only some cuts and a broken arm. Kidd scored the 1960 UK No.1 single ‘Shakin’ All Over’ as Johnny Kidd and the Pirates.
1978 – The film soundtrack to ‘Grease’ featuring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John started a 13 week run at No.1 on the UK chart.
1995 – Alanis Morissette went to No.1 on the US album chart with her third album Jagged Little Pill. The record produced six successful singles, including ‘You Oughta Know’, ‘Ironic’, ‘You Learn’, ‘Hand in My Pocket’, and ‘Head over Feet’ and went on to become the biggest selling album ever by a female artist with sales over 30m.
2013 – Annie Lennox described the sexualised imagery of modern pop videos as “dark” and “pornographic”. “I’m all for freedom of expression,” she told BBC Radio 5 live, “but this is clearly one step beyond, and it’s clearly into the realm of porn.” The singer called for pop videos to be rated in the same way as films.
2016 – The Rolling Stones played the first night of the Desert Trip festival, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The event also featured Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger Waters and the Who. The six-day (split over two weekends) event rakes in $160 million, making it the highest-earning music festival ever.
Today in history
1492 – Christopher Columbus changed course and missed Florida, reaching the Bahamas several days later.
1765 – Delegates from nine of the American colonies protested against the British Stamp Act, which raised a direct tax on the colonies.
1780 – American forces defeated British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolution.
1806 – English inventor Ralph Wedgwood (member of the Wedgwood family of potters) received the first patent for carbon paper, which he created as part of a device to help the blind to write.
1915 – English nurse Edith Cavell sentenced to death along with 34 others by German court martial for running underground network to free Allied soldiers.
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