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[8] [17] Its European launch price was €599 (€629 in Ireland, £425 in Britain), [57] R6499 minimum in South Africa, [58] AU$999.95 in Australia, NZ$1199.95 in New Zealand. On March 7, 2007, the 60 GB PlayStation 3 launched in Singapore with a price of S$ 799. [ 59 ]
Each new penny was worth 2.4 old pence ("d.") in each currency. Coins of half a new penny were introduced in the UK and in Ireland to maintain the approximate granularity of the old penny, but these were dropped in the UK in 1984 and in Ireland on 1 January 1987 as inflation reduced their value.
The Nintendo 64 [b] (N64) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo.It was released in Japan on June 23, 1996, in North America on September 29, 1996, and in Europe and Australia on March 1, 1997.
The first zero-coupon bonds were issued, as the J.C. Penney Company offered $200,000,000 worth of bonds that paid no periodic interest, dividends or other money until maturity. For $332.47 an investor would receive a "zero" that would pay $1,000 at its maturity date of May 1, 1989, for a 14.25% annual interest rate.
Interview on Paul Rand Video: Paul Rand; Logos; Working relationship with clients; 1993 San Francisco, CA NeXTWORLD EXPO Keynote Moscone Center: Video (YouTube) 1994 Redwood City, CA Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview Text (Archive.org) 1994 Santa Clara Valley Historical Association Silicon Valley Documentary
David Healy, Northern Ireland soccer football striker and national team member; in Killyleagh, County Down; Died: Homero Hidrobo, 39, Ecuadorian musician and classical guitarist, from liver failure. Christine Böhm, 25, Austrian actress, was killed in an accident while hiking near Lake Maggiore in Italy. [19]
Today, some 26,000 nuclear weapons remain in the arsenals of the nine nuclear powers, with thousands on hair-trigger alert. Although U.S., Russian, and British nuclear arsenals are shrinking in size, those in the four Asian nuclear nations—China, India, Pakistan, and North Korea—are growing, in large part because of tensions among them.
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer. Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class women in London's East End.