BIRTHS

Julio Bolbochan (1920-28.06.1996), an Argentine Grandmaster who was the Argentine chess champion in 1946 and 1948.
Marcin Kaminski (1977), a Polish Grandmaster who was World U12 and U14 Champion in 1989 and 1993.
Wenjin Wu (1976) Chinese Grandmaster who was Asian U20 Champion in 1996.
Anna Zozulia  (1980), a Ukrainian International Master and Woman grandmaster who won the Girls’ Under-16 World Youth Chess Championship in 1996. She is married to the Belgian GM Vadim Malakhatko.
Csaba Balogh (1987), a Hungarian Grandmaster and author who won the European Under-16 Championship in 2003.
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (1997), an Iranian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won the  World Under-12 Girls Championship in 2009 and few times Asian Champion.

CHESS EVENTS

1946 Portugal. Probably the last game played by Alekhine was against G.F. Anderson at the British Embassy in Lisbon. Alekhine was playing with the black pieces and won the game, a Queen’s Gambit, in 32 moves.
1949 USA. First principles of chess for computers are formulated by Claude Shannon.

WORLD EVENTS

298 Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
1804 Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony (Cote d’Ivoire)
1945 The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1952 Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the “provisional president”.
1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri’s funeral
2000 The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)

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