a barrel (42 U.S. gallons) of crude oil by 35 cents (from a then-average price of $1.79 a barrel), followed by 5 cent increases annually, and had been negotiated by teams headed by Iranian Finance Minister Jamshid Amouzegar for the OPEC nations and by British Petroleum Chairman George Fraser, 2nd Lord Strathalmond. Poisonous fumes from a diesel fire killed 34 passengers and seriously injured 60 more on a train in Yugoslavia that had been halted in a tunnel outside of Vranduk, in what is now Bosnia. Most of the casualties were factory workers and miners who were among the 200 passengers. Investigators concluded that "nothing serious would have happened if the train had been in the open instead of a tunnel" and blamed the disaster on the train's engineer and fireman. An electrical spark had ignited diesel fuel in the locomotive's reservoir as it passed through the Vranduk tunnel, and the crew brought the train to a stop rather than exiting. Born: Kris Aquino, Filipina actress, youngest daughter of Benigno Aquino Jr. and Corazon Aquino Gheorghe Mureșan, Romanian basketball player, in Triteni Nelson Frazier Jr.,Also Under the Name Viscera and Big daddy v. American Pro Wrestler for WWF now WWE From 1993-2008 (d.2014) February 15, 1971 (Monday) On Decimalisation Day, the United Kingdom and Ireland both switched to decimal currency at 10:00 a.m. as banks opened for conversion of money. As a reporter pointed out to non-Britons, "The old currency, the most complicated in the world, divided the pound into 20 shillings and the shilling into 12 pence... Now the pound is divided into 100 new pence, each worth 2.4 American cents." The shilling and the florin were replaced by the five pence and ten pence coins, and unusual denominations like the half crown (2 shillings and a sixpence) and the guinea had no decimal coin equivalent. The popular sixpence remained legal tender until being phased out. The Republic of Ireland converted its currency on the same day, allowing Ireland and the UK's Northern Ireland to have a similar system. Retired permanently was the old system of pricing in pounds, shillings and pence, referred to as £sd for the abbreviations of Latin terms for the British pounds (librae or "£."), shillings (soliddii of "s.") and pennies (denarii or "d."). Thus, 2 pounds, 7 shillings and five pence was "£2.7s.5p." but became £2.37 afterward. However, the Decimal Currency Board had announced