BIRTHS

Henry Thomas Buckle ( (24.11.1821–1862), a Brish Master and historian.
Egon Ditt (1931-2005), a German IMC, President of German Chess Federation and FIDE Officer.
Nikola Padevski (1933), a Bulgarian Grandmaster.
Lucas Brunner (1967) a Swiss Grandmaster who won the Swiss Championship in 1994.
Babakuli Annakov (1972), a US Grandmaster and coach born in Turkmenistan.
Anastazia Karlovich (1982), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster and FIDE Press Officer.
Zhongyi Tan (1991), a Chinese Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who became the 2017 Women’s Champion.
Bayarsaikhan Gundavaa (1989), a Mongolian Grandmaster.
Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson (1993), an Icelandic Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Walther von Holzhausen (1876-09.08.1935), a German Master and problemist.
Geza Maroczy (03.03.1870), a Hungarian Master, one of the best world player of his time.
Fred Reinfeld (27.01.1910-1964), an American Master and chess writer.
Stefano Tatai (23.03.1938-2017), an Italian Grandmaster who eleven titles of Italian Champion.

WORLD EVENTS

526 Antioch, Turkey, was struck by an earthquake and about 250,000 died.
1453 Constantinople fell to Muhammad II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
1848 Wisconsin became the 30th state of the union.
1874 The present constitution of Switzerland took effect.
1943 Churchill, Marshall and Eisenhower met in the Confederacy of Algiers.
1953 Mount Everest was conquered as Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tensing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, became the first climbers to reach the summit.
1985 At Heysel Stadium rioting erupted between British and Italian spectators at the European Cup soccer final in Brussels, Belgium. 39 people were killed when rioting broke out and a wall separating British and Italian soccer fans collapsed.
1994 Hungary’s Socialist Party won the parliamentary election. Socialist Prime Minister Gyula Horn was elected to lead the Socialist-Free Democrat coalition.
2000 In Fiji Commodore Frank Bainimarama seized power to restore order following the coup
(Source: Timeline)

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