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USCC member S. Yogesh was born this date.

AP: Today is Monday, March 8, the 67th day of 2010. There are 298 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On March 8, 1862, during the Civil War, the ironclad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) rammed and sank the USS Cumberland and heavily damaged the USS Congress, both frigates, off Newport News, Va.

On this date:

In 1702, England’s Queen Anne acceded to the throne upon the death of King William III.

In 1782, the Gnadenhutten (jih-NAY’-duhn-huh-tuhn) massacre took place as more than 90 Indians were slain by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.

In 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan; within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese.

In 1874, the 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, died in Buffalo, N.Y., at age 74.

In 1917, Russia’s “February Revolution” (so called because of the Old Style calendar being used by Russians at the time) began with rioting and strikes in Petrograd. The U.S. Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.

In 1930, the 27th president of the United States, William Howard Taft, died in Washington at age 72.

In 1944, two days after an initial strike, U.S. heavy bombers resumed raiding Berlin during World War II.

In 1960, Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon were the victors of the New Hampshire presidential primary.

In 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines were brought in to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang.

In 1988, 17 soldiers were killed when two Army helicopters from Fort Campbell, Ky., collided in mid-flight.

Ten years ago: President Bill Clinton submitted to Congress legislation to establish permanent normal trade relations with China. (The U.S. and China signed a trade pact in Nov. 2000.) A letter carrier, two firefighters and a sheriff’s deputy were shot to death in Memphis, Tenn., allegedly by the letter carrier’s husband, Frederick Williams, who was also a firefighter. (Williams was later found not guilty by reason of insanity.)

Five years ago: President George W. Bush said authoritarian rule in the Middle East had begun to ease, and he insisted anew that Syria had to end its nearly three-decade occupation of Lebanon. Hundreds of thousands jammed a central Beirut square, chanting support for Syria in a thundering show of strength by the militant group Hezbollah. Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov (AS’-lahn mahs-HA’-dahv) was killed in northern Chechnya during a raid by Russian forces.

One year ago: A pastor was gunned down during a Sunday sermon in a southwestern Illinois church; a judge later ruled the suspect in the shooting, Terry Sedlacek (SEHD’-lak), was mentally unfit to stand trial in the killing of the Rev. Fred Winters at the First Baptist Church of Maryville. A suicide bomber struck a police academy in Baghdad, killing at least 30. Country singer Hank Locklin died in Brewton, Ala. at age 91.

Today’s Birthdays: Actress Sue Ane (correct) Langdon is 74. Baseball player-turned-author Jim Bouton is 71. Actress Lynn Redgrave is 67. Actor-director Micky Dolenz is 65. Singer-musician Randy Meisner is 64. Pop singer Peggy March is 62. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Jim Rice is 57. Singer Gary Numan is 52. NBC News anchor Lester Holt is 51. Actor Aidan Quinn is 51. Country musician Jimmy Dormire is 50. Actress Camryn Manheim is 49. Actor Leon (no last name) is 47. Rock singer Shawn Mullins (The Thorns) is 42. Actress Andrea Parker is 40. Actor Boris Kodjoe is 37. Actor Freddie Prinze Jr. is 34. Actor James Van Der Beek is 33. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kameelah Williams (702) is 32. Rock singer Tom Chaplin (Keane) is 31. Rock musician Andy Ross (OK Go) is 31. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kristinia (kris-teh-NEE’-ah) DeBarge is 20.

Thought for Today: “In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an inherent desire to attain balance.” — Jakob (YAH’-kawb) Wassermann, German author (1873-1934).

Wikipedia:
1126 – Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leon, after the death of his mother Urraca.
1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in what will be the United States.
1702 – Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1722 – The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
1775 – Thomas Paine’s “African Slavery in America,” the first article in the U.S. calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery, is published.
1777 – Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1782 – Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1844 – King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1862 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1911 – International Women’s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1917 – The U.S. Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1921 – Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1924 – The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1936 – Daytona Beach Road Course holds their first oval stock car race.
1942 – World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
1957 – The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the state of Georgia.
1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
1963 – The Ba’ath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup d’état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
1966 – A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin.
1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1978 – The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 – Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
1980 – The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
1983 – President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an “evil empire.”
1985 – A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
1999 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq’s Governing Council.

I got this medallion in an envelope of those free address labels that everyone gets in the mail and it was free. Why can’t the mint make something this nice?

I just added some photos of a 1887 Morgan Dollar Variety in photos. Your comments will be greatly accepted and appreciated.

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Can anyone tell me what these two coins would be all about. One is a 1955 s that has a doubling on the last 5 and the word Liberty. The other is a Kennedy half, 1972 d. The designers initial F is not there and the G is very faint. The coin dealer told me yesterday that the 1955 wasn’t worth anything and the kennedy had to have both initials not there to be worth anything. Is this true? Wanted to check with you folks. Thanks.

Ok guys and gals, here is one of the hard coins i think is to grade, the peeace dollar was leekly struck and had to many hair line marks one them from the mint. i have inlarged it as big as i could for you. it realy is much nice in hand. as i am in the mirco mode on my camera so i could get a cleare pic. it show alot on marks you can see by the nicked eye or with a 20 loop.

New $100 bill: Ben’s facelift to be revealed

Associated Press

Posted: 03/05/2010 02:17:53 PM PST
Updated: 03/05/2010 02:17:54 PM PST

WASHINGTON — Aiming to stay a step ahead of counterfeiters, the government is planning a new design for the $100 bill that will be unveiled next month, the Treasury Department said Friday.

Wraps will come off the facelift for Ben Franklin at an April 21 ceremony in the ornate Cash Room at the department, the site of Ulysses Grant’s first inaugural ball in 1869. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will do the honors.

The government says its decisions on redesigning currency are guided by assessments of counterfeiting threats, from digital technology or old-fashioned printing presses.

The C-note — the highest value of all U.S. bills — circulates widely around the globe.

The unveiling of the new design is the first step in a global campaign by the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve Board and the Secret Service to inform users of the bill of the changes before it starts circulating, Treasury said in a news release.

Training materials on the new $100 bill for those who handle cash and educational information will be available in 25 languages beginning on April 21 at www.newmoney.gov.

AP: Today is Sunday, March 7, the 66th day of 2010. There are 299 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On March 7, 1850, in a three-hour speech to the U.S. Senate, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a means of preserving the Union. (Critics bitterly denounced Webster for endorsing a compromise which included a provision for returning runaway slaves to their owners.)

On this date:

In 1793, during the French Revolutionary Wars, France declared war on Spain.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone.

In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place, between New York and London.

In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.

In 1960, Jack Paar returned as host of NBC’s “Tonight Show,” nearly a month after walking off in a censorship dispute with the network.

In 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was broken up in Selma, Ala., by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse.

In 1975, the U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.

In 1981, anti-government guerrillas in Colombia executed kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Allen Bitterman, whom they accused of being a CIA agent.

In 1994, the Supreme Court, in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., ruled that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered “fair use” that doesn’t require permission from the copyright holder.

Ten years ago: Texas Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore were the big winners in Super Tuesday primaries. The Nasdaq composite crossed the 5,000 mark for the first time before retreating. Country singer Frank “Pee Wee” King died in Louisville, Ky. at age 86.

Five years ago: President George W. Bush nominated John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an appointment which ran into Democratic opposition, prompting Bush to make a recess appointment. The presidents of Syria and Lebanon announced that Syrian forces would pull back to Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley by March 31, but that a complete troop withdrawal would be deferred until after later negotiations. A prison fire in the Dominican Republic killed 134 inmates.

One year ago: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Turkish leaders in Ankara, where she announced that President Barack Obama planned to make his own visit. Western-backed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad submitted his resignation (however, he retained his position under a new government). Former Metropolitan Opera general manager Schuyler Chapin died in New York at age 86. Former child actor and singer Jimmy Boyd (”I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”) died in Santa Monica, Calif. at age 70.

Today’s Birthdays: Comedian Alan Sues is 84. Photographer Lord Snowdon is 80. TV personality Willard Scott is 76. Auto racer Janet Guthrie is 72. Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 70. Former Walt Disney Co. chief executive officer Michael Eisner is 68. Rock musician Chris White (The Zombies) is 67. Actor John Heard is 64. Rock singer Peter Wolf is 64. Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is 64. Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Franco Harris is 60. Pro and College Football Hall-of-Famer Lynn Swann is 58. Rhythm-and-blues singer-musician Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 58. Actor Bryan Cranston is 54. Actress Donna Murphy is 51. Actor Nick Searcy is 51. Golfer Tom Lehman is 51. Tennis Hall-of-Famer Ivan Lendl is 50. Actress Mary Beth Evans is 49. Actor Bill Brochtrup is 47. Opera singer Denyce Graves is 46. Comedian Wanda Sykes is 46. Singer-actress Taylor Dayne is 45. Rock musician Randy Guss (Toad the Wet Sprocket) is 43. Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 39. Actress Rachel Weisz (wys) is 39. Classical singer Sebastien Izambard (Il Divo) is 37. Rock singer Hugo Ferreira (Tantric) is 36. Actress Jenna Fischer is 36. Actress Audrey Marie Anderson is 35. Actress Laura Prepon is 30.

Thought for Today: “Caveat actor.” (Let the doer beware.) - Latin proverb.

Wikipedia:
321 – Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1277 – Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
1814 – Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1827 – Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
1827 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his “Seventh of March” speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone beating Antonio Meucci by just 4 hours.
1887 – North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
1936 – World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
1950 – Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
1971 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic “This time the struggle is for our freedom” speech at Ramna Race Course, calling upon the Bengali people to prepare for the freedom struggle ahead.
1985 – The song We Are the World had its international release.
1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.
1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
2007 – British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.

This is a coin I won today on FeeBay. It was listed as BU.