BIRTHS

Jules Arnous de Riviere (1830-11.09.1905), the strongest French player from the late 1850s through the late 1870s who played without success a match with Paul Murphy.
Emanuel Schiffers (1850-12.12.1904), a Russian Master who held the title of Russian champion for 10 years.
Harald Malmgren (1904-15.02.1957), a Swedish Correspondence Grandmaster who finished 2nd in the 1st World Correspondence Chess Championship (1950).
Ilya Kan (1909-12.12.1978), a Soviet International Master who was known his contribution in the development of the theory in the Sicilian Defence.
Silvino Garcia (1944), The first Cuban Grandmaster who was Cuban Champion in 1968, 1970, 1973 and 1979-80.
Joseph Gallagher (1964 ), a Swiss-English Grandmaster and author who won both Swiss and British Championships
Boris Alterman (1970), an Israeli Grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer born in Ukraine. Computer-analyst and coach. Soviet U20 Champion in 1990.
Toni Najdoski (1970), a Macedonian Grandmaster.
Sergei Ovsejevitsch (1974), a Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Daniel Gormally (1976), an English Grandmaster who was in 2005 and 2006 a member of the national team.
Emmanuel Bricard (1966), a French Grandmaster who was French Champion in 1993.
Ognjen Jovanic (1978), a Croatian Grandmaster
Tamir Nabaty (1991), an Israeli Grandmaster who won the 2013 Israeli Championship.
Gabor Papp (1987), a Hungarian Grandmaster who was twice national Youth Champion.

CHESS EVENTS

2014 04.05 In Singapore, Munkhba yar Gijir from Mongolia became the 2014 World Amateur Champion.

WORLD EVENTS

1776 Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
1814 Napoleon Bonaparte disembarked at Portoferraio on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.
1814 Bourbon reign was restored in France. Louis XVIII was crowned as successor to his guillotined brother.
1904 The United States took over the construction of the Panama Canal.
1924 Fascists and communists gained power in the German Republic elections.
1930 In India Mahatma Gandhi was arrested by the British.
1932 Mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, entered the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. Capone was later transferred to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
1979 Margaret Thatcher (b.1925), leader of the Conservative Party, was sworn in as Britain’s first female prime minister. She continued in office for 3 terms until 1990.
1980 Marshal Josip Broz Tito (b.1892), Communist dictator of Yugoslavia (1943-1980), died three days before his 88th birthday.
(Source: Timeline)

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