On this day

In 1960 the farthing ceased to be legal tender. I was 4 at the time so don't remember the coins but I do remember that people talked about them affectionately.

I will be aiming to do a daily post on these lines as they given in my new desk diary. H/T to Free Market Fairy Tales who has been doing "On this day" for much longer than I and with more subjects

Dates missed:

1 January: In 1926 Victoria scored 1,107 runs against New South Wales, the highest recorded number of runs in one innings. FL Morton was run out 0.

2 January: Henry ll had Thomas a Becket was murdered

3 January: Lincoln's Inn admitted its first female student, Cornelia Sorabji, to the in 1919.