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Letter Rate 8¢ Package Rate 8¢ Postcard Rate 6¢ Effective 5/16/1971 Great Britain 1/30/1972 Bloody Sunday Also known as the Bogside Massacre. British soldiers shot twenty-six unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland. Thirteen died and one other died four months later from his wounds.Great Britain 2/2/1972 British Embassy Burned in Dublin Angry demonstrators burned the British Embassy in Dublin protesting the deaths of thirteen people in Londonderry the previous Sunday, known as Bloody Sunday.United States 6/29/1972 Supreme Court Strikes Down Death Penalty The US Supreme Court, in Furman v Georgia, ruled by a vote of 5 to 4 that capital punishment, as it was then in effect on the state and federal level, was unconstitutional. It was held that it was a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution and that the death penalty qualified as "cruel and unusual punishment." It was reinstated in 1976. American President Richard Nixon (1/20/1969-8/9/1974) British Prime Minister Edward Heath (6/19/1970-3/4/1974) German President Gustav Heinemann (7/1/1969-6/30/1974)