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2013 Event - The British Food Standards Agency reports a discovery in Lancashire of 100kg of horse meat imported from Hungary labelled as beef

2013 Event - Owen Paterson, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, convenes with British retailers and the Food Standards Agency to determine how "beef" products containing horsemeat were sold in supermarkets

2012 Event - Standard & Poor's credit rating agency receives a ruling by an Australian judge that they misled investors in their rating of two-pre-crisis issues of structured debt

2012 Event - Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, says Islam should join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

2012 Event - Moody's credit rating agency lowers its outlook on the European Union's AAA long-term bond rating from stable to negative

2012 Event - After his decision not to context charges of doping by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Lance Armstrong learns the organization has banned him for life and recommended he be stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles

2012 Event - Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner, announces he will not contest the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charges of doping, a result of which will include being stripped of all of his tour de France victories

2012 Event - Standard and Poor's credit rating agency increases the rating of the Philippines to BB+

2012 Event - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announces it will end talks with Iran; chief inspector Herman Nackaerts says there has been no progress

2012 Event - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Yukiya Amano, goes to Tehran to convince the Iran's government to co-operate with the IAEA

2012 Event - The United States space agency NASA reveals it had its security compromised by hackers 13 times in the past year

2011 Event - France's three biggest banks, Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale, are downgraded by Moody's credit rating agency

2011 Event - Reports indicate the credit ratings agency Standard & Poors will review 15 nations for possible downgrades, including France and Germany

2011 Event - The European Space Agency makes contact with the Fobos-Grunt probe 48 hours after the spacecraft's window for launch to Mars closes

2011 Event - Italy's credit rating is lowered from A+ to A by Standard and Poor's rating agency, a result of its high level of debt and the stability of its government

2011 Event - Japan's National Police Agency discloses that 90% of cyberattacks on its web site came from IP addresses in the People's Republic of China

2011 Event - With weak economic prospects and significant levels of public debt, Japan is downgraded to Aa3 by Moody's credit rating agency

2011 Event - Standard &: Poor's rating agency downgrades U.S. sovereign debt; the downgrade is the first in the history of the United States

2011 Event - The International Atomic Energy Agency calls for a summit to discuss concerns about nuclear safety following radiation leaks at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

2010 Event - The U.N. environment agency appoints actor Don Cheadle Goodwill Ambassador at a ceremony in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day

2010 Event - Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, commands Iran's atomic agency to start enriching uranium at a higher level

1995 Event - Carlson Wagonlit Travel Agency begins charging $15 service fee

1993 Death - Mary C Lawton, jurist (CIA's Agency Seal Medallion), dies at 58

1993 Event - Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror

1986 Event - Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers and accuses owners of collusion against free agency

1986 Event - European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)

1985 Event - European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)

1984 Event - Central Intelligence Agency's Information Act passes

1983 Event - European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10

1981 Event - 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2

1981 Event - European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit

1976 Event - Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency

1976 Event - Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency

1975 Event - European Space Agency, ESA, forms

1972 Event - Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr

1970 Event - Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)

1964 Event - Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency

1963 Event - American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes

1961 Event - U.S. authorizes Agency for International Development

1960 Event - International Development Association (U.N. agency) comes into existence

1957 Event - International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N.

1956 Event - U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved

1949 Event - Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes

1948 Event - Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed

1946 Event - U.S. president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency

1944 Event - Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency

1942 Event - Franklin D. Roosevelt signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

1940 Event - Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers

1932 Birthday - William D Ruckelshaus, headed Environmental Protection Agency

1929 Event - Jewish Agency for Palestine forms

1925 Event - U.S.S.R.'s official news agency TASS forms

1922 Birthday - Eileen Ford, modeling agency head, Ford Modeling Agency

1921 Event - U.S. Post Office establishes philatelic agency

1918 Birthday - E. Howard Hunt, born in New York, American author, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy, involved in Watergate

1899 Death - Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies

1893 Event - Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture

1841 Event - Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency

1819 Birthday - Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency

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