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1995 Death - L Jansma, Fries publisher (Friese stamp), dies

1993 Event - Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale

1992 Event - Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of Tolkien

1992 Death - Lou Jacobs, U.S. clown (1966 U.S. postage stamp), dies at 89

1992 Event - Great British postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill

1992 Event - USPO announces young Elvis beats old Elvis stamp

1989 Event - U.S. issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus

1988 Event - President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp

1987 Event - Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000

1982 Event - Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica

1978 Event - Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp

1978 Event - 1st postage stamp copyrighted by U.S. (Carl Sandburg stamp)

1974 Event - Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic

1973 Event - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic

1973 Birthday - Paul Popowich, actor, Tommy Tricker and Stamp Traveler

1961 Event - U.S. government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith

1954 Birthday - Gerard Hadders, Dutch postage stamp designer, 1991 children stamp

1952 Event - 1st U.S. postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced

1952 Event - England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II

1945 Birthday - Gielijn Escher, Dutch postage stamp artist

1941 Event - German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports

1941 Death - Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st baron/statisician, dies

1941 Death - Josiah Stamp, British Businessman

1940 Event - Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana)

1940 Event - Booker T. Washington, 1st black to appear on U.S. stamp

1939 Birthday - Terence Stamp, born in England, actor, Collector, Alien Nations

1936 Event - England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

1935 Event - Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp

1934 Event - Byrd souvenir sheet issued, New York City; 1st unperforated ungummed U.S. stamp

1925 Event - Congress authorizes a special handling stamp

1920 Event - 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Connecticut

1917 Death - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp merchant/forger, dies

1912 Event - 1st U.S. postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued

1906 Death - Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer, dies at 74

1894 Event - 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 and 5 Ap)

1893 Event - 1st U.S. commemoratives and 1st U.S. stamp to picture a woman issued

1890 Event - "Gibbons Stamp Monthly" begins publishing

1880 Birthday - Josiah Stamp, British Businessman

1869 Event - Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed

1868 Event - Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued

1856 Birthday - Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator, 1st black on U.S. stamp

1842 Event - Notary Stamp Law passes

1837 Event - England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria

1831 Birthday - Johan P van der Kellen, Dutch stamp cutter/lithographer/writer

1824 Birthday - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger

1813 Death - Giambattista Bodoni, Italian stamp cutter/publisher (bodoni), dies at 73

1795 Birthday - Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp, 1840

1787 Event - French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax

1770 Death - George Grenville, British premier (1763-65)/Stamp Act, dies at 58

1768 Death - Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies

1766 Event - Britain repeals the Stamp Act

1766 Event - Britain repeals Stamp Act

1766 Event - Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia

1765 Event - People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax

1765 Event - Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies

1765 Event - Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote declaration of rights and liberties

1765 Event - Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York

1765 Event - Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"

1765 Event - Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists













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