1938年4月12日
The federal penitentiary at Sing Sing gets a new inmate no one could have anticipated a few years earlier: the outgoing president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney. Whitney has been sentenced to five to ten years of incarceration and banned from the securities industry for life after embezzling bonds from trust funds under his care. Dressed elegantly in a black overcoat, a bowler hat, and handcuffs, Whitney dodges a crowd of 5,000 angry investors and enters the prison without saying a word. He ends up being paroled for "model" behavior in August, 1941.
2004年4月12日 央行决定提高存款准备金0.5个百分点
经国务院批准,中国人民银行决定从2004年4月25日起,提高存款准备金率0.5个百分点,即存款准备金率由现行的7%提高到7.5%。同时根据差别存款准备金率制度要求,资本充足率低于一定水平的金融机构,将执行8%的存款准备金率。农村信用社和城市信用社暂缓执行7.5%的存款准备金率,仍执行6%的存款准备金率。