2014 Event American pet supply retailer PetSmart agrees to be purchased by private equity firm BC Partners for $8.7 billion 2014 Event Petro Poroshenko is inaugurated as the new Ukrainian president; Poroshenko took a firm stand on keeping Ukraine united and suggested plans to ease tensions in the eastern part of the country, including an offer of amnesty for separatists 2013 Event British catering firm Compass Group and Whitbread, one of the country's largest hotel chains, find horse DNA in products sold as "beef" 2012 Event The China Central Television Headquarters, designed by the Officer for Metropolitan Architecture, a firm based in Rotterdam ten years ago, is finally completed in Beijing 2011 Event Jimmy Choo, a U.S. company, is sold to Labelux, a private equity firm for $800 million 1996 Death Amschel Mayor James Rothschild, banker, joined family banking firm N M Rothschild & Sons, chief executive of Rothschild Asset Management dies 1995 Death Ronnie Kray, English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61 1992 Death Josef Neckermann, German founder mail-order firm/travel bureau, dies 1990 Death Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54 1964 Birthday Michelle Obama, born in Chicago, Illinois, maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, first African-American First Lady of the United States, husband to Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, employed by Sidley Austin law firm and University of Chicago Medical Center 1963 Event Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization 1959 Event De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond 1955 Birthday Amschel Mayor James Rothschild, born in Paris, France, banker, joined family banking firm N M Rothschild & Sons, chief executive of Rothschild Asset Management 1955 Birthday John Grisham, writer, Client, Firm, Pelican Brief 1949 Birthday Paul Rodgers, Engl, rocker, Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, Firm 1942 Birthday Thom Mayne, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, architect, awarded Pritzker Prize, 2005, principal, Morphosis, famous architecture firm in Santa Monica, California, founder, Southern California Institute of Architecture 1941 Birthday Tadao Ando, born in Osaka, Japan, Japanese architect, employs critical regionalism style of architecture, 1969, established firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates, winner, Pritzker Architecture Prize 1995 1914 Event Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded 1900 Birthday Josephine Holt Bay, 1st woman to head a firm on New York stock exchange 1885 Event Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa 1768 Event Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
