BIRTHS

Igor Zaitsev (1938), a Russian Grandmaster.
Eduard Rozentalis (1963) a Lithuanian Grandmaster and author, the best national player for a decade.
Natalia Kiseleva (1978), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster.
Svetlana Petrenko (1974), a Moldavian Woman Grandmaster
Gennady Tunik (1953), a Russian Grandmaster.
Meelis Kanep (1983), an Estonia Grandmaster who won three-time the national championship.

CHESS EVENTS

1851. In London, the first International tournament started with Adolf Anderssen. The tournament was conceived and organized by Howard Staunton and marked the first time that the best chess players in Europe would meet in a single event.
1889. At the end of the New York tournament, the first brilliancy prize was awarded to Bird for his win against Mason.
2010 Lev Aronian win the final standings of the FIDE Grand Prix 2009-2010.

WORLD EVENTS

927 Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.
1153 Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1199 John is crowned King of England.
1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1883 Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1927 The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1933 The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
1941 World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
1942 World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
1960 In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1965 Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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