BIRTHS

Almog Burstein (1950), an Israeli International Arbiter who became deputy World Amateur Champion in 2007.
Artur Yusupov (1960), a German born-Soviet Grandmaster and writer who was a semi-finalist of the Candidates Tournament in 1986, 1989 and 1992.
Jonny Hector (1964), a Swedish Grandmaster and a Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess who won the Swedish Championship in 2002.
Levente Vadja (1981), a leading Romanian Grandmaster who won few bronze medals at the World and European Youth Championships.
Namig Guliyev (1974), an Azeri Grandmaster living in France.
Rainer Polzin(1971), a German Grandmaster
Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury (1982), an Indian Grandmaster.
Marsel Efroimski (1995), an Israeli Woman Grandmaster who became  Girls World Under-12 Champion in 2007, Girls World U-14 Champion in 2009, and Girls European U-14 Champion Champion in 2009.

DEATHS

Hans Kmoch (25.07.1884-1973), an Austrian-Dutch-American International Master and International Arbiter, a chess journalist and an author.
Edmar Mednis (22.03.1937-2002), an American Grandmaster and writer born in Latvia. He was the first player to beat Bobby Fischer in a U.S. Championship.

CHESS EVENTS

1985 At the World Championship Match Karpov-Kasparov, a technical timeout was requested by FIDE President Campomanes because the Soviet Chess Federation’s Chairman V. Sevastianov had demanded a three-month suspension of the match, citing concerns about the continuation of the event.

WORLD EVENTS

1575 Henry III of France is crowned at Reims and marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont on the same day.
1633 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1861 Abraham Lincoln declared US president in Washington, D.C.
1913 The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
1935 A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
1945 World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
1945 World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1960 With the success of a nuclear test codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”, France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons.
1975 Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation
1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1990 German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
2008 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)

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