BIRTHS

Friedrich Ludwig Balthasar Amelung (1842-20.03.1909), a Latvian– German cultural historian, businessman and chess endgame composer.
Mato Damjanovic (1927-12.02.2011) a Croatian Grandmaster who played twice for the Yugoslav national team.
Viktor Lvovich Korchnoi (1931– 06.06.2016) a Swiss Grandmaster and writer born in Russia who was World Senior Champion in 2006 and qualify to play for the World Champion title with Karpov in 1978 and 1981.
Vanik Zakarian (1936), an Armenian player and FIDE officer.
Vladimir Liberzon (1937-04.08.1996), a Russian born-Israeli Grandmaster who was the first grandmaster from the Soviet Union who was allowed to emigrate to Israel in 1973.
Liuben Spassov (1943), a Bulgarian Grandmaster who was World Senior Champion in 2005.
Robert Hovhannisyan (1991), an Armenian Grandmaster who was the Armenian Champion in 2011.
Alex Rombaldoni (1992), an Italian Grandmaster who won few Italian Youth Championships.

CHESS EVENTS

1992 The Presidential Board empowered by the GA admitted the Federations of Armenia, Georgia, Slovenia and Croatia as full members. The number of federations affiliated was now 140.

WORLD EVENTS

1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael’s Castle.
1808 Napoleon’s brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain
1857 Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1888 In England, The Football League, the world’s oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
1919 In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1933 The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1942 US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
1956 Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world.
1980 Shah of Iran arrives in Egypt.
1982 Guatemala’s government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
1994 At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
1996 Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthis day)

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