** Office of the Chief Economist

** Kimberly Amadeo, An American writer, Economist and President of WorldMoneyWatch. com

** John T. McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune, for A Wise Economist Asks a Question.

** Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave ( 1827 – 1919 ), banker, editor of The Economist, & author of Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, predecessor to The New Palgrave dictionary cited herein

** World Day for Safety and Health at Work ( International )

** French Americans and their " New World " regional identities such as:

** Creation Myths of the World: An Encyclopedia.

** " Dying god " The Oxford Companion to World Mythology.

** segment: At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World

** World wide web and peer-to-peer networks.

** Walt Disney World Resort

** FIFA World Cup: 1982

** Runners-up FIFA World Cup: 1994

** 3rd place FIFA World Cup: 1990

** World Day of the Sick ( Roman Catholic Church )

** World Music Day

** Three Books of Known Space ( 1996 reprint of Tales of Known Space, with " Madness Has Its Place " in place of " The Borderland of Sol ", packed with World of Ptavvs and A Gift from Earth )

** World Scout Moot, a gathering of older Scouts, mainly Rover Scouts, ages 18 – 26 from all over the world

** Victory and Peace Day, mark the capture of Shusha in the Karabakh War and the end of World War II.

** Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension: Select Essays 1944-1968 New World Library, 3rd ed.

** Malbork, Poland, site of the Ordensburg Marienburg, formerly Marienburg in Westpreußen and during World War II, Nazi Stalag XX-B ( prisoner-of-war camp ) for enlisted men

** Might and Magic: World of Xeen ( 1994 ; DOS, Mac )

** In a 2011 episode of Misfits, an alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War, depicts Britain and the gang under the rule of the Nazi occupation force.

** World Cup warm-up matches

** Walt Disney World ( only on September 11 )

** The PGA golf tour cancelled the World Golf Championships at the Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri.

** World Series championship.

** World Series championship since the Oakland Athletics swept the Giants in.

** 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 )