BIRTHS

Mir Sultan Khan (1905 – 04.1966), a British Master, he was the strongest chess master of his time from Asia.
John Nunn (1955), an English Grandmaster, World Champion in solving chess, author, and publisher.
Viktor Komliakov (1960), a Moldovian Grandmaster who play three Olympiads.
Luis Galego (1966), a Portuguese Grandmaster who was five times Portuguese Champion.
Thanh Trang Hoang (1980), a Vietnamese-born Hungarian chess Grandmaster who became European Women’s Champion in 2013.
Katerina Rohonyan (1984), an Ukrainian-American who was Ukraine Women’s Champion.
Carmen Voicu-Jagodzinsky (1981), a Romanian Woman Grandmaster.
Petar Drenchev (1977), a Bulgarian Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1912 Cuba. The Capablanca-Magazine had begun its publication.
1985 Anatoly Karpov won the 23rd Absolute Chess World Oscar 1985. Maya Chiburdanidze won the 3rd Women’s Chess Oscar 1985.
2011 In Toluca, Mexico, Batista Lazaro Bruzon from Cuba became the America Continental Champion.

WORLD EVENTS

1792 “La Marseillaise” (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1859 British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1881 The French troops occupy Algeria & Tunisia
1901 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1925 Paul von Hindenburg is elected the President of Germany
1940 Merkið, the flag of the Faroe Islands is approved by the British occupation government.
1945 Liberation Day (Italy): The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after Benito Mussolini is captured after trying to escape.
1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin.
1945 The last German troops retreat from Finland’s soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War.
1961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1983 Portugal’s Mário Soares’ Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election
2005 Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
2007 Boris Yeltsin’s funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
(source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)

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