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BIRTHS

Thomas Worrall (1878-23.11.1938), an American player who had good results in 1850’s against some top players.
John Alan Grefe 1947-22.12.2013) US International Master a tie for first with Lubomir Kavalek in the 1973 U.S. Championship.
Zoltan Ribli (1951) Hungarian Grandmaster. He was twice a World Championship Candidate and three times Hungarian Champion.
William Ewart Napier (27.01.1881-1952) British-American master who won the 1904 British championship before to emigrated to the USA.
Georgy Agzamov Uzbek Grandmaster (1954-27.08.1986). who won twice the national championship. He was accidentally killed when he went hiking and fell off a cliff and became trapped between two rocks.
Zoja Lelchuk (1961), Ukraine Women Grandmaster.
Ram Soffer (1965), Israeli Grandmaster and International Solving Grandmaster.
Finegold, Benjamin (1969), US Grandmaster.
Cao Sang (1973) was born, Vietnamese Grandmaster who was living and studying in Hungary for some time.
Martha Fierro Baquero (1977), Ecuadorian International Master and Woman Grandmaster, FIDE officer whi is currently living in Italy. The winner of the American Continental Women’s Chess Championship in 2009.
Mesgen Amanov (1986), Turkmenistan Grandmaster who is living and coach in the USA.
Valentin Iotov (1988), Bulgarian Grandmaster who was the 2006 Bulgarian Champion.

DEATHS

Hans Lepuschutz (05.08.1910-1984), Austrian composer and IMC.
Kira Zvorykina (29.09.1919-2014), Soviet Women Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer who was a three-time winner of the Women’s Soviet Championship and one Women Interzonal.

WORLD EVENTS

1522 The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.
1885 Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
1901 Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition inBuffalo, New York.
1968 Swaziland becomes independent.
1983 The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating its operatives did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.
1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia’s second largest city, which had been known as Leningrad since 1924.
1997 The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
2007 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935) died.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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