** Atlas Bank, bank in Pakistan

** TIPH-2, from 1997 ( West Bank ) – 12 out of 37 soldiers from 6 countries

** Bank Holiday, if it is a Sunday, the day moves to January 3 ( Scotland )

** Da Afghanistan Bank

** Afghanistan International Bank ( AIB )

** Kabul Bank

** Azizi Bank

** Pashtany Bank

** President of the Central Bank of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Ri Kwang-gon ( since April 2009 )

** The most important state owned companies are: Republica AFAP ( Pension Fund ), AFE ( Railways ), ANCAP ( Energy ), ANCO ( Mail ), Administracion Nacional de Puertos ( Ports ), ANTEL ( Telecommunications: Telephony, Mobiles ( ANCEL and Data ANTELDATA )), BHU ( Mortgage Bank ), BROU ( Bank ), BSE ( Insurance ), OSE ( Water & Sewage ), UTE ( Electricity ).

** Anti-globalization protests in Prague ( some 15, 000 protesters ) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.

** African Development Bank ( AfDB ) founded.

** Jacques Attali resigns as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

** Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: The second largest cash robbery in U. S. history ($ 17. 3 million, mostly in small bills ) occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Wells Fargo.

** The Jodrell Bank Radio telescope opens in Cheshire, UK.

** Twenty-eight nations sign an agreement creating the World Bank.

** The Bank of England is nationalized.

** In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank ( now part of the LaSalle Bank ) opens the first 10 drive-up teller windows.

** An Israeli gunman kills 7 Palestinians, leading to bloody riots in the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank.

** European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) founded.

** Central Bank bombing: an explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 and injuring 1, 400.

** Eugene R. Black, Sr., American banker, former president of the World Bank ( b. 1898 )

** Browning BAR, a semi-automatic rifle produced in Belgium and Japan

** bow toward each other, in Korea, Japan and China

** Democratic Party of Japan

** Diet of Japan, Japan's legislature

** Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale ( equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the visual arts )

** Rulers of Japan ( Emperors, Regents, Shoguns and Prime Ministers )

** Emperors of Japan

** Prime Minister of Japan

** List of Emperors of Japan

** National Capital Region ( Japan )

** Statism in Shōwa Japan

** Autumnal Equinox Day ( Japan )

** The Shinkansen high-speed rail system is inaugurated in Japan, for the first sector between Tokyo and Osaka.

** West Germany and Japan form diplomatic relations.

** Germany and Japan suffer defeats at Stalingrad, El Alamein, and Midway in 1942 and 1943.

** Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ( August 6 and August 9, 1945 ); Surrender of Japan on August 15.

** A 7. 5 earthquake hits Japan, killing 385 people.

** Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.

** Japan-U. S. Security Treaty, which allows United States Armed Forces being stationed in Japan after the occupation of Japan, is signed by Japan and the United States.

** Iva Toguri D ' Aquino is found guilty of broadcasting for Japan as " Tokyo Rose " during World War II.

** Heavy rains and mudslides at Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992.

** Japan stages the Mukden Incident as a pretext to occupy Manchuria.

** 1948 Fukui earthquake strikes Fukui, Japan.