BIRTH

Gosta Stoltz Swedish Grandmaster (1904-25.07.1963), a Swedish Grandmaster who won three national titles

WORLD EVENTS

1873 Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
1877 Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1877 A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
1901 Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
1941 World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1945 World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1945 Victory celebration at Red Square.
1945 World War II: Hermann Goering is captured by the United States Army.
1946 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
1949 Prince Rainier III becomes monarch of Monaco
1950 Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe.
1974 Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1978 Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro found
2005 Liberal commentary website The Huffington Post is launched
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)

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