BIRTHS

Alexandr Dimitrievich Petrov (1794-22-04-1867) a Russian chess composer and chess player who was the best Russian player of his time.
Carol Jarecki (1935) an American organizer, an International Arbiter in many top chess events, and a chess writer.
Leontxo García Olasagasti (1956)  a Spanish Fide Master, lecturer, presenter, commentator, and journalist.
Glenn Flear, (1959), an English Grandmaster, author and a coach living in France.
Nana Mikhailovna Ioseliani (1962), a Georgian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who challenged and lost defending champion Maia Chiburdanidze and Xie Jun for the Women’s World Championships.
Svetlana Stuchkova (1963), a, Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Krzysztof Bulski (1987), a Polish Grandmaster who is a multiple medalists at the Polish Junior Chess Championship.

WORLD EVENTS

1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1809 Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist was born (d. 1882)
1809 Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer, and politician, 16th President of the United States was born (d. 1865).
1877 Louis Renault, French engineer, and businessman, co-founded Renault was born (d. 1944)
1912 The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1914 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1921 Winston Churchill becomes British Minister of Colonies
1921 Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
1938 German troops entered Austria
1992 The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
1999 United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2002 The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
(Source: Wikipedia and Onthis day)

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