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1995 Davie Cooper, David 'Davie' Cooper, professional soccer player, signed by Ranger for 100,000 pounds, won Scottish Cup with Motherwell in 1991, dies at 39
1994 In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made 1993 S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for 705,500 pounds in London 1992 Hurricane Inuki pounds Hawaii 1992 Vinson Pike fined 1000 pounds for distributing obscene computer pictures 1987 Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for 31,380,197 pounds 1987 Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds ($39.7 million) 1983 World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England 1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro 1982 Laker Airways collapse owing 270M pounds ($351M) 1976 Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for 340,000 pounds 1976 British pounds falls below $2 for 1st time 1973 George Harrison pays 1,000,000 pounds tax on his Bangladesh concert and album 1973 Paul and Linda McCartney are fined 100 pounds for growing cannabis 1972 Police fine Paul and Linda McCartney 800 pounds in Sweden cannabis possession 1970 John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds fine for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland 1969 George Harrison and Patti Boyd are fined 250 pounds each for illegal drugs 1968 John Lennon is fined 150 pounds for unauthorized drug possession 1967 British government devalues pounds from U.S. equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40 1967 George Harrison is fined 6 pounds for speeding 1965 Damien Hirst, born in Bristol, England, artist, richest living artist to date, 'For the Love of God' a diamond-encrusted scull sculpture, sold for 50 million pounds in 2007 1965 Rolling Stones fined 5 pounds each for public urination 1963 Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds and his license is suspended for one year for speeding 1963 Great Train Robbery - 2.5 M pounds ($3.25 M) robbed 1960 Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at United Nations General Assembly 1956 Davie Cooper, born in Hamilton, Scotland, David 'Davie' Cooper, professional soccer player, signed by Ranger for 100,000 pounds, won Scottish Cup with Motherwell in 1991 1954 Constantine Phipps, born in England, Constantine Edmund Walter Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby, sold Warter Priory estate in 1998 for 48 million pounds, leases Mulgrave Castle to supermodel Elle MacPherson 1948 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates 1915 CH Chubb buys Stonehenge for 6,600 pounds 1888 Ndebele-king Lobengula grants Cecil Rhodes, Mashonaland 100 pounds per month 1883 A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10,000 pounds, forgery 1829 Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does 60,000 pounds damage 1789 John Odell signs contract for 336 pounds to build St. Peter's church (Bronx) 1659 1st known check (400 pounds) (on display at Westminster Abbey) 1647 Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for 40 pounds 1583 Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons, premium was 383 pounds 1578 Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir 20,000 pounds to aid Dutch rebellion |
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