63rd Birthday Cufflinks - 63rd Old English sixpence high quality Cufflinks made with Genuine coins from England - 100% satisfaction

63rd Birthday Gift - 1959 Old English sixpence Cufflinks made with Genuine coins from England - 100% satisfaction

Our custom 63rd Birthday Gift cufflinks make the perfect gift for a birthdays, anniversaries, corperate gifts and is the ideal retirement present - making a significant year in life of the wearer. The cufflinks will have the year 1959 displayed on the front. These cufflinks are made using the old English sixpence. We use real coins. These sixpence coins are no longer made, and were last made in 1968.

England in 1959:

29 January – Dense fog brings chaos to Britain.
19 February – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence.
23 February – Prime Minister Harold Macmillan holds talks with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on a visit to the USSR.
7 March – Independence movement leader Kanyama Chiume, wanted in the British territory of Nyasaland, flees to London and goes into hiding.
30 March – 20,000 demonstrators attend a CND rally in Trafalgar Square.
1 April – The official name of the administrative county of Hampshire is changed from 'County of Southampton' to 'County of Hampshire'.
2 April – United Dairies merges with Cow & Gate Ltd (of Guildford) to form Unigate Dairies.
22 April – Ballerina Margot Fonteyn is released from prison in Panama having been suspected of involvement in a planned coup against the government of president Ernesto de la Guardia.
30 April – Icelandic gunboat fires on British trawlers in the Cod Wars.
May – First Ten Tors event held in Dartmoor.
2 May
The Chapelcross nuclear power station in Scotland opens.
Nottingham Forest beat Luton Town 2-1 in the FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium.
7 May – Scientist and novelist C. P. Snow delivers an influential Rede Lecture on The Two Cultures, concerning a perceived breakdown of communication between the sciences and humanities, in the Senate House, University of Cambridge. It is subsequently published as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.
24 May – British Empire Day becomes Commonwealth Day.
28 May – Mermaid Theatre opens in the City of London.
late May / early June – Import tariffs lifted in the United Kingdom.
1 June – First showing on BBC Television of Juke Box Jury chaired by David Jacobs.
3 June – Singapore is granted self-governing status.
11 June – Christopher Cockerell's invention the hovercraft officially launched.
22 June – Harrods enters talks with Debenhams over a possible £34 million merger.
23 June – Klaus Fuchs released from Wakefield prison having served over nine years for giving British nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union.
29 June – Obscene Publications Act becomes law.
28 July – UK postcodes introduced.
4 August - Barclays become the first bank to install a computer.
24 August – House of Fraser wins the bidding war for Harrods in a £37million deal.
26 August – The first Mini goes on sale.
31 August – Harold Macmillan and United States president Dwight Eisenhower make a joint television broadcast from Downing Street.
18 September – Auchengeich mining disaster: 47 miners die as the result of an underground fire at Auchengeich Colliery, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
7 October – 300 people need to be rescued when a fire breaks out on Southend Pier.
8 October – General Election results in a record third successive Conservative victory, with the slogan "Life's better with the Conservatives". Harold Macmillan increases the Conservative majority to 100 seats. Among the new members of parliament is Margaret Thatcher, who turns 34 on 13 October and represents Finchley in North London.
12 October – Large-scale diamond robbery in London.
21 October – Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi is arrested in Nyeri, Kenya.
30 October – Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club opens in the Soho district of London.
2 November – The first section of the M1 motorway is opened between Watford and Rugby. It is set to be extended over the next few years, southwards to Edgware and northwards to Leeds.
5 November – Philip John Noel-Baker wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
20 November – Britain becomes a founder member of the European Free Trade Association.
November – The nuclear Dounreay Fast Reactor comes on line.
December – Health enthusiast Dr. Barbara Moore walks from Edinburgh to London.
8 December – Broughty Ferry life-boat Mona capsizes on service to North Carr Lightship: all eight life-boat crew lost.
28 December – Associated-Rediffusion first airs high quality the children's television series Ivor the Engine, made by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin's Smallfilms in stop motion animation using cardboard cut-outs.

Undated
London County Council completes first portion of Alton Estate in Roehampton, southwest London, considered a model of post-war public housing.[21]
"Aluminium War": Concluding the first hostile takeover of a public company in the UK, Tube Investments (under its chairman Ivan Stedeford), allied with Reynolds Metals of the United States and advised by Siegmund Warburg of S. G. Warburg & Co., secure control of British Aluminium.[22]
The iconic Bush TR82 transistor radio, by Ogle Design, is launched.
North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board's Sloy-Awe Hydro-Electric Power Scheme becomes fully operational.

Publications
Agatha Christie's novel Cat Among the Pigeons.
Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger.
Colin MacInnes' novel Absolute Beginners.
Iona and Peter Opie's study The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.
Mervyn Peake's novel Titus Alone, last completed of the Gormenghast series.
Alan Sillitoe's story The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Keith Waterhouse's novel Billy Liar.

Births

January – February
7 January – Angela Evans Smith, British Labour Co-operative politician and MP for Basildon
16 January – Sade Adu, Nigerian-born British singer, composer, songwriter and record producer
30 January – Alex Hyde-White, English actor
3 February – Lol Tolhurst, cofounder and former drummer/keyboardist of The Cure
23 February – Richard Dodds, British field hockey player
27 February – Simon Critchley, British philosopher

March – April
1 March – Nick Griffin, British politician and chairman of the British National Party (BNP)
9 March – Mark Carwardine, British zoologist
15 March – Ben Okri, Nigerian-born poet and novelist.
20 March – Steve McFadden, British actor
21 March – Colin Jones, Welsh boxer
5 April – Ian Pearson, British Labour politician and MP for Dudley South
15 April – Emma Thompson, English actress, comedian, and screenwriter.
16 April – Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player
21 April – Robert Smith, British musician (The Cure)
25 April – Adrian Sanders, British Liberal Democrat politician and MP for Torbay
27 April – Sheena Easton, Scottish singer

May – June
3 May – Ben Elton, British comedian and writer
5 May – Ian McCulloch, English singer (Echo & the Bunnymen)
15 May – Andrew Eldritch, British musician (The Sisters of Mercy)
16 May – Tracy Hyde, English actress and model
17 May – Paul Whitehouse, Welsh comedian and actor
22 May – Morrissey, British singer
29 May Rupert Everett, English actor
Adrian Paul, British actor
1 June
Martin Brundle, English motor racing and former Formula One driver
Peter Skinner, British Labour politician and MEP for South East England
11 June – Hugh Laurie, English actor, comedian and writer
19 June – Sophie Grigson, British cookery writer and celebrity chef
21 June – John Baron, British Conservative politician and MP for Billericay
26 June – Lucy Kellaway, British columnist at the Financial Times
27 June – Clint Boon, British musician (Inspiral Carpets)
29 June – Richard Vranch, British comedian, actor, and TV panel show participant

July – August
3 July – Julie Burchill, British journalist
13 July – Richard Leman, British field hockey player
31 July – Kim Newman, English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer
1 August – Joe Elliott, British singer (Def Leppard)
5 August – Pete Burns, singer
20 August – Andrew Pelling, British Conservative politician and MP for Croydon Central
24 August – Meg Munn, British Labour Co-operative politician and MP for Sheffield Heeley
27 August – Jeanette Winterson, British novelist

September – October
18 September – Ian Arkwright, English footballer
7 October – Simon Cowell, English music producer and television talent show judge
10 October – Kirsty MacColl, British singer and songwriter (died 2000)
15 October
Sarah, Duchess of York
Tibor Fischer, British novelist and short story writer
16 October
Gary Kemp, English pop artist (Spandau Ballet)
John Whittingdale, British Conservative politician and MP for Maldon and Chelmsford East
20 October – Niamh Cusack, Irish-born actress
26 October – Brian Bovell, British actor

November – December
1 November – Susanna Clarke, British writer
2 November – Peter Mullan, Scottish actor
9 November – Frances O'Grady, British trades union leader
14 November – Paul McGann, British actor
18 November – Jimmy Quinn, Irish footballer and football manager
25 November – Charles Kennedy, British Liberal Democrat politician
30 November – Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist
2 December – Gwyneth Strong, British actress
6 December – Stephen Hepburn, British Labour politician and MP for Jarrow
12 December – Jasper Conran, English fashion designer
28 December – Andy McNab, British soldier turned novelist
29 November – Richard Borcherds, mathematician
30 December – Tracey Ullman, English comedian, actress, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author

Unknown dates
Dilly Braimoh, African-British television presenter and producer
Amanda Craig, British novelist
Peter Doig, British painter
Mick Hume, British journalist and former organiser of the Revolutionary Communist Party
WPC Yvonne Fletcher, British policewoman shot and killed during a protest outside the Libyan embassy (died 1984)
Mick Manning, British children's author and illustrator
Jasper Morrison, English product and furniture designer

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