Post a coin and tell us what happened in that year

You missed the fact that the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Browns (now Baltimore Orioles ) met in the World Series with the Cardinals winning 4 games to 2. It was the only American League pennant for the Browns.

 

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Sorry about that I also missed a lot of WW2 news
Iwas born on the same day as Patricia Quinn, Lady Stephens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944

 

Beautiful coin.

 

Some really nice coins in this thread.

 

-France tests its first nuclear bomb making it the 4th country with nuclear powers.
-Sharpeville massacre happens in South Africa (like my coin).
-'To Kill a Mockingbird' was released.
-First televised Presidential debate.

 

Sestertius of Vespasian minted in 71 AD, depicting a Jew seated to the right in mourning. It commemorates the capture of Judea by Vespasian's son Titus, and the destruction of the Jewish Second temple in 70 AD. Interestingly, the spoils taken from the temple were used by Vespasian to fund the construction of the Colosseum in Rome, which began in 72AD and was completed by Titus in 80 AD.

 

The only denomination minted for the year was the cent.
2nd Bank of US is chartered.
"The year without a summer" following the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia

 

In February of 1924, George Gershwin debuted his famous classical-jazz composition, Rhapsody in Blue, in New York City. I chose this event because one week ago, I saw Rhapsody in Blue performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra.

 

And the coin you posted ain't bad either....

 

These guys were born (the actors, not the characters):

 

On January 20th, 1899, nothing of importance happened.

 

Some days are like that. Cool coin, though

 

It's only logical.

 

Nice looking coin