The Jubilee coinage are British coins with an obverse depicting Queen
Victoria (pictured) by Joseph Edgar Boehm, and were struck between 1887
and 1893. In 1879, Boehm was selected to create a new depiction of
Victoria—some British coins still showed her as she had appeared forty
years previously. Boehm was slow to complete the project, and it took
years before it came to fruition. The new coins were released in June
1887, at the time of the queen's Golden Jubilee. The crown on Victoria's
head was seen as too small, was widely mocked, and helped bring about
the design's replacement. The series saw the entire issuance of the
double florin, from 1887 to 1890, and the last circulating British
fourpence piece, intended for use in British Guiana, in 1888. Bronze
coins (the penny and its fractions) were not part of the Jubilee
coinage, due to a surplus of them in commerce. The Jubilee coinage's
replacement, the Old Head coinage, with an obverse created by Thomas
Brock, began to be struck in 1893.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_coinage>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1483:
The last monarch of the House of York and the Plantagenet
dynasty, Richard III, was crowned King of England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England>
1801:
French Revolutionary Wars: A Royal Navy squadron failed to
eliminate a smaller French Navy squadron at Algeciras before they could
join their Spanish allies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Algeciras>
1962:
The United States conducted the Sedan nuclear test as part of
Project Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear
explosions for civilian purposes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_%28nuclear_test%29>
1997:
The Troubles: In response to the Drumcree conflict, five days
of unrest began in nationalist districts of Northern Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Northern_Ireland_riots>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bidon:
1. A bottle or flask for holding a beverage such as water or wine;
(specifically, sports) a water bottle which can be squeezed to squirt
the beverage out of the nozzle, especially (cycling) one designed for
mounting on a bicycle.
2. (archaic) A container for holding a liquid.
3. A cup made of wood.
4. An oil drum; a petrol can.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bidon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a
warrior the greater part of my life, and were I young again, should
still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived
— a Defensive war I think a righteous war to Defend my life & property
& that of my family, in my own opinion, is right & justifiable in the
sight of God. An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would
therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with
another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid
servant or anything that is his. Neither does he have a right to meddle
with anything that is mine, if he does I have a right to defend it by
force.
--Daniel Morgan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Morgan>
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