BIRTHS

Daniel Harrwitz (1823 – 09.01.1884), a German Master who lost a match in England to Howard Staunton in 1846 at odds of a pawn and two moves and drew a match with Adolf Anderssen.
Markus Stangl (1969), a German Grandmaster.
Nikolaus Stanec (1968), an Australian Grandmaster who was 10 times Austrian Champion.
Yury Shulman (1975), a U.S. Grandmaster and coach born in Belarus who won the 2008 US Chess Championship

CHESS EVENTS

2011 In Indonesia, the team of Shi Jiazhuang from China won the Asian Cities Team Championship 2011.
2015 In Armenia, China confirmed his success at the 2014 Olympiads by winning the 2015 World Team Championship ahead of Ukraine and Armenia.
2015 In Chengdu, China, Georgia won the 2015 World Women’s Team Championship ahead of Russia and China.

WORLD EVENTS

1429 Joan of Arc led French troops to victory over the English at Orleans during the Hundred Years’ War.
1899 Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (d.1974), jazz composer and musician was born in Washington DC.
1940 Norwegian King Haakon and government fled to England.
1945 American soldiers liberated 31,601 in the Dachau, Germany
1946 In Japan 28 former leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals; seven ended up being sentenced to death.
1970 Andre Agassi, tennis star and winner of an Olympic gold medal in 1996, was born
1975 US forces pulled out of Vietnam. The US embassy was evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon.
1979 Democracy was restored in Ecuador. Jaime Roldos Aguilera was elected as president in the 2nd round of voting.
1980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (b.1899), British director (Psycho, Birds), died in Los Angeles.
1999 NATO jets struck Yugoslav army headquarters in Belgrade and the federal interior ministry. A telecommunications tower was hit and knocked Serbian TV off the air.
2004 Google unveiled an IPO that could raise as much as $2.7 billion.
2006 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki to suspend enriching uranium and ensure full-scale cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.
(Source:  Timeline)

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