** 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.

** 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 )

** Lammas ( England, Scotland, Neopagans )

** British-Americans and on-going developments in New England cuisine, the national traditions founded in cuisine of the thirteen colonies and some aspects of other regional cuisine.

** Anglo-Saxon England, their history

** William of Ockham ( Church of England )

** Roman Britain or Britannia, a Roman province covering most of modern England and Wales and some of southern Scotland from 43 to 410 AD

** Morecambe Bay-largest intertidal bay in England

** C. v. marilandicus ( Linnaeus, 1758 )-coastal New England to Pennsylvania and central Virginia

** Christchurch ( UK Parliament constituency ), England, centered on the town

** New England fiddling, with strong influences from Québécois and British repertoires.

** Botolph ( England )

** Midsummer Day ( England )

** Ephrem the Syrian ( Roman Catholic Church and Church of England )

** Evelyn Underhill ( Church of England and the Episcopal Church of the United States )

** Witenagemot, the High Council of Anglo-Saxon England

** Chad of Mercia ( Church of England )

** Historic start of the new year ( Lady Day ) in England, Wales, Ireland, and the future United States until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752.

** Division of New England, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales

** University of New England ( Australia ), based in Armidale, New South Wales

** Edmund the Martyr ( Church of England )

** Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

** In the 1971 film Dad's Army, German aircrew with photographs vital to the invasion crash land in England.

** Paulinus of York ( in England )

** International Origin Match, England vs Exiles

** Old Believings It was believed that in England in the 14th century, that plains of any kind is where the dead wandered searching for their revenge.

** English Reformation, series of events in 16th century England by which the church in England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church