BIRTHS

Vladas Mikėnas (1910– 03.11.1992), a Lithuanian Honorary Grandmaster born in Estonia, writer, and arbiter.
Klaus Junge (01.01.1924-1945) – born in Chile, the most talented German chess player since Lasker. Came first equal with Alekhine at Prague 1942. Unfortunately, he perished during WWII.
Peter K. Wells(1965), an English Grandmaster, coach, and author.
Sergey Shipov (1966), a Russian Grandmaster, journalist, and commentator.
Robert Kuczynski (1966), a Polish Grandmaster who was Polish Champion in 1987.
Ruben Gunawan (1968-27.08.2005)  an Indonesian Grandmaster who was Asian U20 Champion in 1983.
Alexander Obukhov (1969), a Russian Grandmaster
Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (1974), a Russian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who was the runner-up in the 2004 Women’s World Chess Championship.
Inga Khurtsilava (1975) a Georgian Woman Grandmaster who was a three-time Women’s Champion of Georgia.
Pawel Blehm (1980), a Polish Grandmaster who was the was 1994 World Under-14 Champion and stop to play in 2007.

CHESS EVENTS

2003 China won in India the Men’s and Women’s Asian Team Championships.

WORLD EVENTS

1080 The King of Denmark, Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV.
1790 Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, publisher, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (b. 1706).
1824 Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40’N
1839 Guatemala forms a republic
1895 The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated the Qing Empire.
1907 The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
1941 World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
1958 In Brussels (Belgium) World Fair opens
1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
1971 The People’s Republic of Bangladesh is formed.
1975 The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
1986 IBM produces the 1st megabit-chip
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)

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