1961 Old English sixpence - Ideal 61st birthday present - Includes presentation box - 100% satisfaction - 3 day delivery option buying

1961 Old English sixpence - Ideal 61st birthday present - Includes presentation box - 100% satisfaction

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Our custom cufflinks make the perfect gift for a birthdays, anniversaries, corporate gifts and is the ideal retirement present - making a significant year in life of the wearer. The cufflinks will have the year 1961 displayed on the front. These cufflinks are made using the old English sixpence which are no longer in circulation.

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England in 1962:

January - March
1 January - The farthing coin, used since the 13th century, ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
The Conservative Monday Club is established.
7 January - The Avengers television series first screened on ITV.
9 January - British authorities announce that they have discovered a large Soviet spy ring in London.
5 February - Sunday Telegraph first published.
13 March
The five members of the Portland Spy Ring go on trial at the Old Bailey accused of passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
Black and white £5 notes cease to be legal tender.
20 March - Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, becomes the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and its company the Royal Shakespeare Company (Peter Hall (director)).
21 March - The Beatles perform at the legendary Cavern Club in Liverpool for the first time.

April - June
3 April - The Jaguar E-Type, a sports car capable of 150 mph, is launched as a two-seater roadster or 2+2 coupe.
17 April - Tottenham Hotspur win the Football League First Division for the second time, with a 2-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday. They have epically failed to win it since.
27 April - Sierra Leone gains independence from the UK.
1 May
Betting shops are legalised.
A fire at the Top Storey Club in Bolton results in nineteen deaths. A new Licencing Act is rapidly passed to improve fire safety.
2 May - The United Kingdom becomes a member of the OECD.
6 May - Tottenham Hotspur becomes the first English football team this century, and only the third in history, to win the double of the league title and FA Cup, with a 2-0 victory over Leicester City in the FA Cup Final.[15] (The last previous team to achieve this were Aston Villa in 1897.)
8 May - George Blake is sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying, having been found guilty of being a double agent in the pay of the Soviet Union.
17 May - Consecration of Guildford Cathedral.
28 May - Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
8 June - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, marries Katharine Worsley at York Minster.
14 June - The government unveils new "panda" crossings with push button controls for pedestrians. The new crossings will appear on British roads next year.
19 June - The British protectorate ends in Kuwait and it becomes an emirate.
27 June - Michael Ramsey enthroned as the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury, in succession to Geoffrey Fisher.
Kuwait requests British help; the United Kingdom sends in troops.

July - September
July - Government calls for a voluntary 'pay pause' in wage increases (continuing to April 1962).
4 July - Barclays open their 'No. 1 Computer Centre' in Drummond Street, London, with an EMI mainframe computer, Britain's first bank with an in-house computing centre.
8 July - In an all-British women's final to The Championships, Wimbledon in tennis, Angela Mortimer beats Christine Truman.
21 July - The Runcorn Widnes Bridge (later known as the Silver Jubilee Bridge) over the River Mersey opened by Princess Alexandra.
25 July - The Lancashire-set film Whistle Down the Wind, starring Hayley Mills and Alan Bates, opens.
10 August - Britain applies for membership in the EEC.
16 August - The play Lady Chatterley by John Harte - based on D. H. Lawrence's novel - opens at the Arts Theatre in London and is well reviewed by West End theatre critic Harold Hobson.
23 August - Police launch a manhunt for the perpetrator of the A6 murder, who buying shot dead 36-year-old Michael Gregsten and paralysed his mistress Valerie Storie.
25 August - Police in Birmingham launch a murder inquiry after the body of missing teenager Jacqueline Thomas is found on an allotment in the Alum Rock area of the city.
31 August - Premiere of the film Victim, notable as the first in English to use the word "homosexual".

September
Film A Taste of Honey, including themes of unmarried pregnancy and homosexuality, released.
First Mothercare shop opens, in Kingston upon Thames.
4 September - James Pitman's Initial Teaching Alphabet is tested in a number of schools.
16 September - Three people die and 35 are injured when a stand collapses during a Glasgow Rangers football match at Ibrox Park.
17 September - Police arrest over 1,300 protesters in Trafalgar Square during a CND rally.

October - December
October - Acker Bilk's Stranger on the Shore released.
1 October - Religious programme Songs of Praise first broadcast on BBC Television; it will still be running fifty years later.
9 October - Skelmersdale, a small Lancashire town 15 miles north-east of Liverpool, is designated as a new town and its population will expand over the coming years, bolstered by large council housing developments to re-house families from inner city slums on Merseyside.
10 October - The population of the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha is evacuated to Britain because of a volcanic eruption.
25 October - The first edition of Private Eye, the satirical magazine, is published.
8 November - In a referendum on Sunday opening of public houses in Wales, the counties of Anglesey, Cardiganshire, Caernarfonshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire and Pembrokeshire all vote to stay "dry".
9 November - At the Lyceum Theatre, London, Miss United Kingdom, Welsh-born Rosemarie Frankland, becomes the first British winner of the Miss World beauty pageant.
27 November - Royal Air Force participates in air drops of food to flood victims in Somalia.
4 December - Birth control pills become available on the National Health Service after their availability is backed by Health Minister Enoch Powell.


Agatha Christie's novel The Pale Horse.
Ian Fleming's novel Thunderball.
Richard Hughes' novel The Fox in the Attic.
John le Carré's first novel Call for the Dead, introducing the character George Smiley.
Iris Murdoch's novel A Severed Head.
Muriel Spark's short novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Evelyn Waugh's novel Unconditional Surrender, last of the Sword of Honour trilogy.
Parker Morris Committee's report Homes for Today and Tomorrow.
Raymond Williams's The Long Revolution sets out the importance of cultural change.