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BIRTHS

Jiri Lechtynsky (1947), a Czech Grandmaster who participated in three Olympiads.
Diane Savereide (1954), an American International Woman Master who won 5 titles of US Women Champion.
Zuzana Stockova, (1977), a Slovakian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won the Slovakian Woman title in 2004.
Bator Sambuev, (1980), a Russian-Canadian Grandmaster who was Canadian Champion in 2012.born…
Haslinger, Stewart G Haslinger (1981), an English Grandmaster who was awarded a PHD in applied mathematics at the University of Liverpool in 2014.
Lisandra Teresa Ordaz Valdes (1988), Cuban Woman Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.

DEATH

Herman Steiner (15.04.1905-1955), an American International Master, journalist and chess columnist born in Hungary who became the US Champion in 1948.

CHESS EVENTS

1961 In Vrnjacka Banja, Yugoslavia, the new Soviet star Nona Gaprindashvili won  the 4^th Women’s Candidates Tournament with 13/17.
1964 At the Chess Olympiad in Israel, the USSR won the gold medal by a wide margin. However, it suffered its second defeat since 1956, this time to West Germany.
1991 Nona Gaprindashvili USSR and Peng Zhoqin CHN shared first place in the Women’s Interzonal in Subotica, Yugoslavia.
1996 The team of Kazan RUS won the European Club Cup.

WORLD EVENTS

1343 A tsunami, caused by an earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.
1487 Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.
1491 The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada.
1759 An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.
1783 American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
1795 Partitions of Poland: Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia.
1839 A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40-foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.
1905 Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
1915 Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1947 New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
1973 George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners’ coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
1975 Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
1992 The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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