BIRTHS

Geza Maroczy (1870-29.05.1951) a leading Hungarian Grandmaster and engineer, one of the best players in the world before WWI.
Alain C. White (1880-23.04.1951), An American chess composer, player, author and philanthropist born in France.
Plater Kazimierz (1915- 30.06.2004) a Polish International Master who was thrice Polish Champion in 1949, 1956, and 1957.
Bachar Kouatly (1958), a French Grandmaster born in Syria who was joint French Champion in 1979. President of the French Chess Federation since 2016.
Christian Gabriel (1975) a German Grandmaster.
Ahbhijt Kunte (1977), an Indian Grandmaster who was British Champion in 2003 and Indian Champion in 1997 and 2000.
Timur Gareyev (1988), an American Grandmaster born in Uzbekistan who is holding the world simultaneous blindfold chess record with 48 board simul (4th December 2016).
Momchil Nikolov (1985), a Bulgarian Grandmaster who was Bulgarian Champion in 2016.
Xavier Vila Gazquez (1990), Spanish Grandmaster who was twice Spanish Youth Champion in 2006 and 2008.
Tingjie Lei, (1997) a Chinese Woman Grandmaster who played on the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the Asian Women Team Championship in 2016.

DEATH

Alexander Tolush (01.05.1910-1969), a Soviet Grandmaster, Honored Coach of the USSR. He worked with Keres, Rudenko, and Spassky.
Stanislav Bogdanovich (1993-2020), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was U18 Ukrainian champion.

WORLD EVENTS

724 Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
1284 The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1845  Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1875 Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
1918 Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia’s involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
1923 TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1924 The fourteenth-century Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
1931 The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938 Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1952 Puerto Rico approved their 1st self-written constitution.
1958 Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
1961 King Hassan II ascended to the throne of Morocco. He succeeded his father Mohamed V.
1974 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
2005 Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world alone without stopping or refueling, touching down in central Kansas after a 67-hour, 23-thousand-mile journey.

(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)

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