September 28th "2023" daily prep

Welcome to day 271 of the year! Known as Good Neighbor Day as well as Drink Beer Day. If you were born on this day, you were likely conceived the week of January 5th 2023 and your star sign is “Libra”.
1928 – Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered what later became known as penicillin when he found that a mould had developed on an accidentally contaminated staphylococcus culture plate. His ‘bacteria killer’ discovery changed the world of modern medicine and has saved millions of people around the world.
Todays birthdays
1934 – Brigitte Bardot (89), French actress, model, animal activist and sex kitten (And God Created Women), born in Paris, France.
1947 – Jon Snow (76), English journalist (Channel 4 News) and television presenter (Jon Snow Explains), born in Ardingly, West Sussex.
1960 – Jennifer Rush (63), American pop and rock singer (The Power of Love), born in Queens, New York.
1972 – Dita Von Teese (51), American burlesque dancer, model, and businesswoman. Credited with re-popularizing burlesque, born in Rochester, Michigan, United States.
1987 – Hilary Duff (36), American actress (A Cinderella Story, Agent Cody Banks), born in Houston, Texas.
The day today
1918 – World War I: The start of the Fifth Battle of Ypres. The British sustained almost 5,000 casualties but advanced the front line by up to 18 miles and captured approximately 10,000 German soldiers, 300 guns and 600 machine guns.
1928 – Parliament passed the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
1985 – Riots broke out on the streets of south London after a woman was shot and seriously injured in a house search. Local people had already been very critical of police tactics in Brixton and a mood of tension exploded into violence as night fell.
1996 – At Ascot, Frankie Dettori became the first jockey to win all seven races at a meeting. The odds on this happening were 25,095 to 1. Bookmakers lost over £18 million pounds as a result.
2019 – Elon Musk announced that he was building a spaceship called Starship that would travel to Mars and return to Earth. This incredible ship will be 164 feet tall by 30 feet wide (50 x 9 meters) and capable of carrying 300,000 lbs (150 tons).
Today in music
1980 – The Police were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’ the group’s third No.1. Taken from their album ‘Zenyatta Mondatta’ and the best selling single of 1980.
1985 – Kate Bush scored her second UK No.1 album with ‘Hounds Of Love’. The singers second No.1 album featured the tracks ‘Running Up That Hill’, ‘Cloudbusting’, ‘Hounds of Love’ and ‘The Big Sky’.
1991 – Guns N’ Roses released two albums ‘Use Your Illusion I’ and ‘Use Your Illusion II’ which debut at number 1 and number 2 on the UK album chart. Both albums make No.1 & No.2 in the US.

2002 – Madonna was voted the greatest female singer of all-time by 75,0000 music fans in a VH1 poll, but critics and music fans were unhappy with the position of Kylie Minogue who was voted into second place beating Diana Ross, (12th) and Annie Lennox, (14th). The highest placed UK act was Kate Bush who was voted No. 10. 

2007 – An ad for P Diddy’s Unforgivable Woman perfume range, featuring a lingerie-clad model cavorting with the rapper in a New York hotel stairwell, was shown on Channel 4 in the UK. The ad had been banned in the US by the Federal Communications Commission, for being too sexually explicit for US audiences.
Today in history
1066 – William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River in Picardy, northern France, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.
1598 – The birth, in Bridgwater, Somerset of Robert Blake, military commander and one of the most famous English admirals of the 17th century. He was nicknamed ‘Father of the Royal Navy’.
1825 – The world’s first public railway service began with the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Built by George Stephenson, the track was 27 miles long, and the steam locomotive pulled 32 passenger wagons at ten miles per hour.
1849 – The opening, by Queen Victoria, of Newcastle’s High Level Bridge. It was designed by Robert Stephenson to form a rail link towards Scotland for the developing English railway network.
1888 – The first use of the name, ‘Jack the Ripper’ in an anonymous letter to the Central News Agency. He went on to kill five women, and it’s believed he may have been responsible for the deaths of four more.
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