that "£sd will be legal tender for up to 18 months after D-day and some shops will be pricing and giving change in £sd," with the changeover period ending on August 15, 1972. In addition to Ireland, the African nation of Malawi went decimal on the same day, along with Gibraltar, while the Gambia, Nigeria and Malta continued to use the old system. "President's Day" was celebrated as a legal holiday nationwide in the U.S. for the first time, as new federal legislation took effect moving the George Washington's birthday holiday from February 22 to the third Monday in February. In that Washington had been born on February 22, 1732 ("February 11, 1731" under the Julian calendar at the time), the third Monday only falls in a range from the 15th and the 21st of the month and never on the actual anniversary of his birth. The federal holiday would become popularly known as President's Day in that it comes between the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809) and of Washington, both days that had been observed as state holidays in the past. The government of Poland announced that it was reversing the increase of food prices that had triggered nationwide rioting in December, and that prices would return to normal on March 1. At the same time, Prime Minister Piotr Jaroszewicz announced that plans to raise wages would be halted as a compromise for the reduction of food prices. Angry over proposed price increases for agricultural supplies proposed by the European Economic Community (EEC)'s Agricultural Commissioner, a group of Belgian farmers brought three cows into a meeting room in Brussels where the six EEC nations' ministers of agriculture were meeting to discuss pricing. The "Young Farmers Alliance" carried out what one reporter noted was "a major feat of cowherding" in that they "had succeeded in driving three cows... through swift swing doors, past security guards, up three flights of marble steps, through a press room, down a corridor and into the council chamber." France's Minister of Agriculture commented that "It was an event unworthy of the construction of Europe". February 16, 1971 (Tuesday) The first recording by the secret taping system installed by U.S. President Nixon was made. There were nine original microphones in the Oval Office––five in the president's desk and one on each side of the fireplace; and two in the Cabinet Room under the