BIRTHS

Bernand Zuckerman, (1943), an American International Master (1970) who won the World Open in 1976.
Andreas Adorjan a Hungarian Grandmaster and author who was European U20 Champion in 1970.
Evgeny Pigusov (1961), a Russian Grandmaster who was the second of Kasparov in 1995.
Zoltan Gyimesi (1977) a Hungarian Grandmaster who left chess a few years ago.
Yue Wang (1987) a Chinese Grandmaster who became World University Champion in 2010 and a member of the top ten best world-ranked players.
Humpy Koneru (1987), an Indian Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who is the second best female world rated for a decade.
Ante Brkic (1988), a Croatian Grandmaster who was Croatian Champion in 2010and 2011.

CHESS EVENTS

1953 Cecil Purdy of Australia won the first Correspondence Chess World Championship.

WORLD EVENTS

1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowned German emperor Hendrik IV.
1492 Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1547 Francis I, King of France (1515-1547), died and was succeeded by his son Henry II.
1809 Composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in Vienna, Austria on his 77th birthday.
1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1917 The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1951 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1954 The siege of Dien Bien Phu, the last French outpost in Vietnam, began after the Viet Minh realized it could not be taken by direct assault.
1964 A coup d’état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castelo Branco.
1991 Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country’s independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 Albania offered a multi-party election for the first time in 50 years.
2001 In the Netherlands legislation enacted in 2000 to legalize gay marriages went into effect at midnight.
(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)

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