2013 Event Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England announces that the 5 pound bank note, to be circulated in 2016, will feature Winston Churchill 1996 Event British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million pound order 1995 Event British pound hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record) 1990 Event 500 pound Hershey Kiss is displayed in Times Square 1983 Event 1 pound coin introduced in United Kingdom 1972 Birthday Kurupt, born in Long Beach, California, born Ricardo Emmanuel Brown, rapper, also known as 'Kurupt That Kingpin', member of rap group, Tha Dogg Pound 1972 Death Ezra Loomis Pound, U.S. poet (Throne), dies at 87 1972 Death Ezra Pound, American Poet 1949 Event 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound 1948 Event Israeli pound becomes legal tender 1943 Death Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord (Jutland, WW II), dies 1939 Event German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard 1939 Birthday Ali MacGraw, born in Pound Ridge, New York, actress, Love Story, Goodbye Columbus 1935 Event Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos" 1931 Event Britain abandons gold standard/pound devalues 20% 1885 Birthday Ezra Pound, American Poet 1877 Birthday Alfred DPR Pound, British admiral/1st Sealord, Jutland, WW II 1862 Event Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles 1801 Event Elisha Brown, Jr. pressed a 1,235 pound cheese ball at his farm 1793 Event Bank of England hands out 1st 5 pound note
