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BIRTHS

Valentina Borisenko (1920-06.03.1993) a Russian Woman Grandmaster who as 3 times Soviet Women’s Champion.
Valentin Arbakov (1952-30.11.2003), a Russian Grandmaster who was known for his excess of alcohol.
Ferdinand Hellers (1969), a Swedish Grandmaster who became the European Junior Champion in 1984-85.
Alexandrova Olga, RUS, b-day 28.01.1978 a Ukrainian-born Spanish International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is married to Spanish Grandmaster Miguel Illescas.
Thi Mai Hung Nguyen (1994), a Vietnamese Woman Grandmaster who became the ASEAN Women’s Champion 2015 and the Asian Women’s Blitz Champion in 2016.

CHESS EVENTS

1989 Candidates Quarterfinal in Seattle, A. Karpov (USSR) beat J. Hjartarson (ISL) 3½-1½.

WORLD EVENTS

814 Charlemagne dies of pleurisy in Aachen as the first Holy Roman Emperor. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as the king of the Frankish Empire.
1871 Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
1932 Japanese forces attack Shanghai.1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
1965 The current design of the Flag of Canada is chosen by an act of Parliament.
1980 Six Americans who had fled the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, left Iran using false Canadian diplomatic passports. The Americans had been hidden at the Canadian embassy in Tehran.
1999 Ford Motor Company announced the purchase of Sweden’s Volvo AB for $6.45 billion.

(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)

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