* The reverse of the United States " Mercury " dime ( minted from 1916 to 1945 ) bears the design of a fasces and an olive branch.

* A silver " Mercury " dime

) The best known example may be the 1945-S " Micro S " Mercury dime, when the mint used an old puncheon intended for Philippine coins.

* 1941 / 2 Mercury dime

* 1941 / 2-D Mercury dime

1936 Winged Liberty Head ( Mercury ) dime

Although most commonly referred to as the " Mercury " dime, the Winged Liberty Head does not depict the Roman messenger god.

The composition ( 90 percent silver, 10 percent copper ) and diameter ( 17. 9 millimeters ) of the " Mercury " dime was unchanged from the Barber dime.

Soon after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, legislation was introduced by Virginia Congressman Ralph H. Daughton that called for the replacement of the Mercury dime with one bearing Roosevelt's image.

The judges were society President Robert Weinman ( son of Adolph Weinman, who had designed the Mercury dime and Walking Liberty half dollar ), Connecticut sculptor Adlai S. Hardin, former Mint Chief Engraver Gilroy Roberts, Julius Lauth of the Medallic Art Company, and Elvira Clain-Stefanelli, curator in the Division of Numismatics, Smithsonian Institution.

Despite his objections, Weinman is still best remembered as the designer of the Walking Liberty Half Dollar ( a design now used for the obverse of the American Silver Eagle one-ounce bullion coin ) and the " Mercury " dime along with various medals for the Armed Services of the United States.

Mercury dime | Mercury Dime ( 1916 ).

More than 2 billion Mercury dimes were minted before it was replaced by the Dime ( United States coin ) | Roosevelt dime in1946.

* US Walking Liberty Half Dollar, and possible model for the Mercury dime ( both 1916 )

* 1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States ' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the " Mercury Seven ".

To promote it in the United States, Mercury Records financed a coast-to-coast publicity tour in which Bowie, between January and February 1971, was interviewed by radio stations and the media.

* Mercury Boulevard, in the cities of Hampton and Newport News, Virginia, United States

* Mercury, Alabama, United States

* Mercury, Nevada, United States

* Mercury, Texas, United States

* E-6 Mercury, a United States military aircraft

* Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program of the United States

* USS Mercury, any of several ships of the United States Navy

* Mercury Prize, an annual United Kingdom music prize

* Phoenix Mercury, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States

* Leicester Mercury, a United Kingdom regional newspaper

* Matlock Mercury, a United Kingdom newspaper

* Sherborne Mercury, a defunct newspaper from Dorset United Kingdom

* Sunday Mercury, a newspaper in Birmingham, United Kingdom

* The Portland Mercury, an alternative weekly newspaper published in Oregon, United States

* Mercury FM, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom

* Mercury ( satellite ), any of three United States satellites

Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States.

* June 13 – The cancellation of Mercury 10 effectively ends the Mercury program of United States manned spaceflight.

* January 31 – Ham the Chimp, a 37-pound ( 17-kg ) male, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury capsule, designed to carry United States astronauts into space.

Virgil Ivan Grissom ( April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967 ), ( Lt Col, USAF ), better known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot.

A mechanical engineering graduate of Purdue University, he joined the United States Air Force and was selected as a member of NASA's Project Mercury space program.

NBC made the first coast-to-coast color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 1954, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype color receivers by manufacturers RCA, General Electric, Philco, Raytheon, Hallicrafters, Hoffman, Pacific Mercury and others.

* 1986: Lewis M. Simons, Pete Carey and Katherine Ellison, San Jose Mercury News, " for their June 1985 series that documented massive transfers of wealth abroad by President Marcos and his associates and had a direct impact on subsequent political developments in the Philippines and the United States.

The United States responded by launching Alan Shepard into space on a suborbital flight in a Mercury space capsule.

Their debut album, The Boomtown Rats, was released in September 1977, on Ensign in the UK and on Mercury Records in the United States, and featured another single, " Mary of the 4th Form ".