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BIRTHS

R.C. Griffith (1872-11.12.1955) FIDE Life Member, he was a British chess player, author and editor. He won the British Chess Championship in 1912.
Marquis Stefano Rosselli del Turco (1877-18.08.1947), a strong Italian player who won twice the national championship. He was the founder and an editor of L’Italia Scacchistica.
Nikolai, Krogius (1930), Russian Chess Grandmaster, International Arbiter (1985), psychologist, chess coach, chess administrator, and author. He coached World Champion Boris Spassky for several years, also served as chairman of the USSR Chess Federation,
Alexandra van der Mije (1940-14.10.2013), Dutch Women Grandmaster born in Romania who was many times national Women Champion in both countries.
Andrei Makarov (1954), Russian International Master, lawyer, former president of the Russian chess federation and the chairman of the budget committee of the State Duma.
Geoffrey Borg (1963), Maltese FIDE Master and FIDE CEO.
Pawel Jaracz, Polish Grandmaster who was second the national championship in 2011.

DEATHS

Joseph Plachutta (13.05. 1827 -1883), Slovenian problemist and chess player, known for his famous problem with Plachutta theme.
Adolf Olland (1867-1933). was the leading Dutch chess master in the time before Max Euwe.

CHESS EVENTS

1925 The 2^nd FIDE Congress opened in Zurich with 12 federations represented.
1931The 8^th FIDE Congress opened in Prague, with 17 federations represented.
1953 Without Soviet representative, Oscar Panno (ARG) won the 2^nd World Junior Championship in Copenhagen
1962 The team of USSR with B. Spassky, E. Gufeld, V. Bagirov, V. Savon , G .Khodos,and H. Tomson won the 9^th World Student Team Championship in Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia.
2007 In Moscow GM Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine  won the World Blitz Chess Championship 2007.
WORLD EVENTS

1099 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1706 The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries’ Parliaments, led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1797 Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-AdmiralNelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated.
1894 The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the ‘official’ victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3 hp petrol engined Peugeot.
1933 Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York, NY, completing the first solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
1934 Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1946 King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
1951 Dezik (Дезик) and Tsygan (Цыган, “Gypsy”) are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight.
1977 Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power.
1983 Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
2011 Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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