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2013 Event - George Osborne, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, announces that G7 finance ministers and central bankers agree that coordinate action should be taken against tax evaders

2013 Event - G20 finance ministers focus on the so-named "currency wars" during their meeting in Moscow, Russia

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

2013 Event - The Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, loses his position as President of the Euro Group; he is unseated by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Minister of Finance for the Netherlands

2012 Event - European Union Finance Ministers agree to give the European Central BAnk new powers to supervise euro zone banks

2012 Event - Japan appoints its new finance minister, Koriki Jojima, and Seiji Maehara as its new minister of national strategy and economic policy

2012 Event - Greece appoints Yiannis Stournaras as its new finance minister

2012 Event - Euro zone finance ministers agree on a second bailout for Greece

2011 Event - Following the resignation of Dominique Strass-Kahn, France finance minister Christine Lagarde becomes the new head of the International Monetary Fund

2011 Event - Former North Carolina Senator and U.S. Presidential Candidate John Edwards is indicted on charges of conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws

2011 Event - French Minister of Finance, Christine Lagarde, declares her candidacy as head of the International Monetary Fund

2010 Event - In response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, BP agrees to finance a $20 billion fund to compensate those whose livelihood has been damaged

1995 Event - London finance house of Barings collapse after losses in Singapore by trader Nick Leeson

1995 Death - Wim H Sinnige, Amsterdam PvdA alderman of Finance, dies at 60

1993 Death - Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance, dies at 64

1989 Death - Piet[er J] Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance (1945-52), dies

1982 Death - Richard A Butler, England, Minister of Finance, dies at 79

1967 Event - Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University

1967 Death - Henry Morgenthau, U.S. minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74

1966 Event - Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin

1961 Event - Houston voters approve bond to finance luxury domed stadium

1957 Event - President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant

1950 Event - British minister of Finance Stafford Cripps resigns

1950 Death - Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66

1948 Birthday - Willem AFG Vermeend, Dutch economist/undersecretary of Finance, 1994-

1946 Birthday - Hans Kombrink, sociologist/Dutch undersecretary of Finance, PvdA

1941 Death - Rudolf Hilferding, Germ economist/Minister of Finance (SPD), suicide at 63

1940 Birthday - Barend J du Plessis, South African minister of Finance, 1984-

1936 Death - Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, murdered at 43

1935 Birthday - Willem Duisenberg, minister of Finance, PvdA, President, Nethche Bank

1934 Birthday - Wim H. Sinnige, Dutch alderman of finance, social democratic

1932 Death - Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered

1932 Event - Reconstruction Finance Corp organized

1931 Birthday - Georg "Org" Marais, South African economist/underminister of Finance

1931 Death - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of finance, dies at 75

1921 Death - Matthias Erzberger, German Minister of Finance, murdered at 45

1921 Birthday - Hendrik J Witteveen, economist/minister of finance/director, IMF

1920 Death - Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance, murdered

1914 Event - Canada's Finance Act, 1914, receives assent

1913 Birthday - John Elliott Terry, managing director, National Film Finance Corp

1908 Birthday - Maurice Stans, born in Shaokopee, Minnesota, Maurice Hubert Stans, President Richard Nixon's finance chairmen, acquitted in Watergate, U.S. Deputy Postmaster General 1955 - 57, U.S. Secretary of Commerce 1969 - 1972

1904 Birthday - Hendrik J Hofstra, Dutch minister of Finance, PvdA

1902 Birthday - Richard A. Butler, England, Dutch Minister of Finance/Foreign affairs

1902 Birthday - Piet[er J] "Piet" Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance, 1945-52

1895 Birthday - Hans Fischbock, Austria, Finance minister, Nazi-occupied Holland

1893 Birthday - Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, 1925-30

1888 Death - Simon Vissering, Dutch minister of Finance (1879-81), dies at 70

1887 Death - Pieter Blusse van Alblas, liberal minister of Finance, dies at 75

1886 Birthday - Pieter J Old, lawyer/minister of Finance/mayor of Rotterdam, 1945-52

1886 Birthday - Gustaaf Sap, Belgian minister of Finance/Economy

1883 Birthday - Joseph A. Schumpeter, Austria/U.S. economist/minister of finance

1879 Death - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69

1877 Birthday - Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance

1861 Death - Elias Canneman, liberal minister of Finance (1813-14), dies at 84

1855 Birthday - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance

1849 Death - Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Minister of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88

1841 Death - Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74

1828 Death - Jean Henri Appelius, Dutch lawyer/minister of Finance, dies at 60

1827 Birthday - William GGVV Harcourt, English lawyer/Minister of Finance

1821 Death - [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, minister of finance/patriot, dies at 55

1814 Event - Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance

1813 Event - Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance

1812 Event - Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812

1812 Birthday - Pieter Blusse van Oud-Alblas, Dutch liberal minister of Finance

1809 Birthday - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance

1791 Birthday - Baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance

1791 Birthday - Felix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance

1788 Event - Jacques Neeker names French minister of Finance

1785 Death - Haym Salomon, dies in Philadelphia at 44, helped finance the revolution

1777 Birthday - Elias Canneman, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, 1813-14

1776 Event - Turgot, French minister of Finance, resigns

1767 Birthday - Jean Henri Appelius, lawyer/minister of Finance

1767 Birthday - Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance

1765 Birthday - [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, Dutch minister of Finance/patriot

1761 Birthday - Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, born in Switzerland, U.S. minister of Finance, 1801 - 1814

1743 Death - Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies

1737 Event - French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns

1727 Birthday - Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance

1712 Death - Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67

1710 Event - Earl van Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance

1696 Event - De Croissy succeeds Le Plectia as French minister of Finance

1693 Birthday - Thomas Pelham-Holles 1st duke of Newcastle, English minister of finance

1683 Event - Le Plecta appointed French minister of Finance

1661 Event - French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested

1653 Event - Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France

1510 Death - Edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies

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