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Decimal Day (Irish: Lá Deachúil) [1] in the United Kingdom and in Ireland was Monday 15 February 1971, the day on which each country decimalised its respective £sd currency of pounds, shillings, and pence. Before this date, the British pound sterling (symbol "£") was subdivided into 20 shillings, each of 12 (old) pence, a total of 240 pence ...
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Still, for months, many pundits predicted a Democratic National Convention in Chicago this year would devolve into a scene out of 1968’s Vietnam era convention held in the city with days of ...
1671 - King Louis XIV grants monopoly over service in Paris to the family Pagot and Rouillé. [9] 1675 - Beat Fischer von Reichenbach granted permission to operate a private postal service in Bern, Switzerland. 1680 - The first penny post system, known as the London Penny Post, for local delivery was introduced by William Dockwra in London. [10]
The Mickelberry Sausage Company plant explosion was a massive explosion and fire that killed nine people in Chicago on February 7, 1968. [1] The factory made meat products such as hot dogs, lard, and hams under the Mickleberry Old Farm brand. [2] Mickelberry was founded in 1893.
Because the term "new penny" was defined in law, a change in the law would be needed for coins to keep up with common parlance. The Act changed the definition in the 1967 Act so that the denominations of money in the currency would be the "pound sterling and the penny or new penny", [3] with the word "New" being with the value of the coin (e.g.
1968–1976 1968 1968–1971 Norfolk and Western Railway: NIRC: 1976–1982 1964–1965 1964–1976 Erie Lackawanna Railway – 1960–1970 Monon Railroad – 1956–1971 Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad: Amtrak, Metra: 1947–1971 Alton Railroad: GM&O: 1931–1947 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: Amtrak, NIRC: 1928–1982