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2013 Event - Pope Francis calls for worldwide 'financial reform along ethical lines' which would curb the 'tyranny' of 'markets and financial speculation'

2013 Event - U.S. Treasury Secretary nominee, Jack Lew, begins his confirmation hearing by testifying before the U.S. Senate's financial committee

2013 Event - Germany, France, and nine other countries within the EU await approval from EU Finance Ministers to institute the Tobin tax, a tax on financial transactions

2012 Event - The governing Worker's Party takes control of Brazil's financial capital and largest city when Fernando Haddad is elected mayor of Sao Paulo

2012 Event - Former U.S. Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty resigns from Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign, planning instead to work for the Financial Services Roundtable in Washington, D.C.

2012 Event - Deutsche Bank, the German global financial services company, announces plans to cut 1,900 jobs

2012 Event - An internal investigation is launched by Pope Benedict XVI involving leaks of confidential documents that allege corruption, financial mismanagement and power struggles among senior church officials

2012 Event - French President Nicolas Sarkozy presents an economic reform package that increases taxes and proposes a new tax on financial transactions

2011 Event - Financial disputes lead New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to report that the National September 11 Museum will not open on time

2011 Event - After negotiations in Brussels, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, rejects the invitation to join a European Union financial crisis accord

2011 Event - In anticipation of Budget Day, students protesting against the Irish financial crisis occupy the office of Fine Gael lawmaker Anthony Lawlor

2011 Event - Parliament gives the new Greek Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos a vote of confidence, opening the doors for national unity to help restore financial stability in Greece

2011 Event - The European Financial Stability Facility is approved by the German Bundestag

2011 Event - In South Korea, the Financial Services Commission reveals they plan to inject more money into suspended local savings banks

2011 Event - The Financial Times finds computer hackers may have accessed details on Citigroup bank card customers

2011 Event - Japan's economy officially enters a recession, partially due to financial strain caused by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami

2010 Event - Ireland presents its 15 billion euro austerity package to secure a financial bailout from European Union and the International Monetary Fund

2010 Event - Germany and the European Union deny planning a 20 - 25 billion euro financial aid plan for Greece

2008 Event - Iceland takes control of 3 banks due to the global financial crisis

1995 Event - CNN/fn, the financial network by Turner Enterprises, launched

1995 Death - Fischer S Black, Jr., financial Theorist, dies at 57

1994 Event - New York Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure

1993 Death - Eliot Janeway, financial columnist (Eliot Doomsday), dies at 80

1992 Event - Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3

1964 Birthday - Jeff Bezos, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founder, President of Amazon.com, previously a financial analyst for D.E. Shaw & Co.

1961 Birthday - Timothy Geithner, born in Brooklyn, New York, United States Secretary of the Treasury, under President Barack Obama, served as President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, charged with directing financial crisis of December 2007

1954 Event - Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons

1954 Death - B. C. Forbes, Bertie Charles Forbes, founder Forbes magazine, financial journalist, books include, 'Forbes Epigrams', '101 Unusual Experiences', dies

1951 Birthday - Suze Orman, born in Chicago, Illinois, television host, financial advisor, author, host of 'The Suzie Orman Show' on CNBC, books include, 'The Road to Wealth'

1939 Birthday - H Onno C R Ruding, director, Amrobank, Dutch Financial minister, CDA

1939 Birthday - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer, Everyone's Money Book

1938 Birthday - Fischer S Black, Jr., financial theorist

1934 Birthday - Geoffrey Owen, British editor, Financial Times

1933 Event - Financial and Economy World conference opens, 66 countries

1933 Birthday - Louis Rukeyser, financial whiz, Wall Street Week

1931 Event - Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails beginning financial collapse of Central Europe

1913 Birthday - Sylvia Porter, financial writer, Sylvia Porter's Money Book

1913 Birthday - Eliot Janeway, financial writer, Economics of Chaos

1880 Birthday - B. C. Forbes, born in New Deer, Scotland, Bertie Charles Forbes, founder Forbes magazine, financial journalist, books include, 'Forbes Epigrams', '101 Unusual Experiences'

1556 Event - King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts

1281 Event - Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge

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