BIRTHS

Daniel Abraham Yanovsky (1925-05.03.2000), a Canadian-Polish Grandmaster who won eight times the Canadian championship.
Vladimir Kovacevic (1942), a Croatian Grandmaster.
Semen Palatnik  (1950), a Ukrainian-American Grandmaster who was a member of the Soviet team which won the gold at few Student World Team Championships.
Christopher Ward (1968), an English Grandmaster and author who won the British Championship in 1996.
Arkady Dvorkovich (1972), a former Russian Deputy-Prime Minister, economist and elected FIDE President in 2018.

DEATH

Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida (30.11.1897–1984), a Brazilian International Master who the 1939 Brazilian Championship, but is best known for the opening named after him (1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5).
Reuben Fine (11.10.1914-1993) an American Grandmaster chess author, psychologist. He was one of the best chess players in the world from the mid-1930s through the early 1940s.

CHESS EVENTS

1983 Candidates Quarterfinal in Bad Kissingen, (FRG), V. Korchnoi (SUI) beat L. Portisch (HUN) 6-3. At the Women’s Candidates Quarterfinal, M. Muresian (ROM) lost to Semenova (USSR) 4½-5½.
1987 Candidates Super-Final in Linares, A. Karpov (USSR) defeated A. Sokolov (USSR) 7½-3½.
1990 Candidates’ Final Match in Kuala Lumpur, A. Karpov (USSR) defeated  J. Timman (NED) 6½-2½.
2009 Veselin Topalov from Bulgaria defeated Gata Kamsky from USA in Sofia in an 8 game match for the right to play World Champion Viswanathan Anand later in the year. Topalov won the match 4.5-2.5.
2020 Due to the global situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FIDE President decided to stop the Candidates Tournament in Yekaterinburg.

WORLD EVENTS

1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1169 Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
1808 Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
1812 An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1931 Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
1931 Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
1939 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
1945 Iwo Jima is occupied after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed.
1971 “Benny Hill Show” tops TV ratings
1979 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
1995 The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
(Source: Wikiepdia-Onthisday)

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