September 17th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 260 of the year! Known as Professional House Cleaners Day as well as Apple Dumpling Day and National Tradesmen Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of December 25th 2022 and your star sign is “Virgo”.
2001 – The opening of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge that spans the River Tyne between Gateshead’s Quays arts quarter on the south bank, and the Quayside of Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank.
Todays birthdays

1942 – Des Lynam (81), Irish-born television broadcaster (Grandstand, Match of the Day), born in 

1950 – Sherrie Hewson (73), English actress (Coronation Street, Crossroads, Emmerdale, Benidorm), born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire.
1962 – “Baz” Luhrmann (61), Australian film director, producer, writer and actor (Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, Strictly Ballroom), born in Sydney, Australia.

1968 – Anastacia (55), American singer, songwriter and former dancer (“I’m Outta Love”), born in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

1969 – Ken Doherty (54), Irish professional snooker player, commentator and radio presenter, born in Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland.
The day today
1969 – Media on both sides of the Atlantic were running stories that said Paul McCartney was dead. He was supposedly killed in a car accident in Scotland on November 9, 1966 and that a double had been taking his place for public appearances.
1985 – The death, aged 60, of Laura Ashley, Welsh designer and fabric retailer.
1998 – There was chaos in Staffordshire, when animal rights activists release around 6,000 animals from a mink farm. Mink are now devastating British wildlife, so it was not a particularly wise or humanitarian move!
2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopened for trading after the September 11 attacks. It was the longest the New York Stock Exchange had been closed since the Great Depression.
2007 – Worried savers continued to flock to some Northern Rock bank branches to withdraw their savings when the bank applied to the Bank of England for emergency funds.
Today in music
1976 – The Sex Pistols played a gig for the inmates at Chelmsford Prison, Essex in England.
1978 – The video for Queen’s single ‘Bicycle Race’ was filmed at Wimbledon Stadium, Wimbledon, UK. It featured 65 naked female professional models racing around the stadium’s track on bicycles, which had been hired for the day. The rental company was reported to have requested payment for all the saddles when they found out how their bikes had been used.
2000 – Paula Yates was found dead in bed from a suspected drug overdose. Yates had presented the UK music TV show The Tube during the 80s, married Bob Geldof and was the girlfriend of INXS singer Michael Hutchence.
2006 – Justin Timberlake went to No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Futuresex / Lovesounds’ the singers second solo album and second No.1.
2011 – Adele went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Someone Like You’. The track was also No.1 in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom.
Today in history
1701 – King James II of England died whilst in exile in France.
1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stewart or ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ as he was better known, arrived in Edinburgh and declared his father to be the rightful King of Scotland. He could not capture Edinburgh Castle so he set up his Court in Holyrood Palace.
1789 – German-British astronomer William Herschel discovered the moon of Saturn, “Mimas.”
1944 – Blackout regulations eased in Britain to allow lights on buses, trains and at railway stations for the first time since the beginning of World War II in 1939.
1953 – Conjoined twins were successfully separated for the first time. The two girls, Carolyn and Catherine, were joined by the spine. They both went on to live full, healthy lives.
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