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BIRTHS

Patrick Thomas Duffy (1834-1888) Irish player and chess columnist.
Andrey Khardin (14.09.1842 – 06.02.1910), Russian player and lawyer.
Adolf Albin (1848-01.02.1920) Romanian Master and author who only learnt the game in his 20s and did not play in international events until his 40s.
Pierre Biscay (1905-30.07.1969), French composer and solutionist. International judge for chess composition.
Vladimir Bron, Soviet (1909-01.01.1985), Russian Grandmaster for chess composition.
Alberto Armeni (1944), Italian player and chess composer.
Grigory Serper (1969), American Grandmaster born in Uzbekistan who won the world Open in 1996.
Ruslan Sherbakov (1969) Russian grandmaster, coach and author.
Mikheil Kekelidze (1974), Georgian Grandmaster.
Marian Petrov (1975), Bulgarian Grandmaster who was the Bulgarian Champion in 2002.
Pavel Skatchkov (1979), Russian Grandmaster.
Julio Catalino Sadorra (1986), Filipino Grandmaster who drew with M. Carlsen at the 2016 Olympiad.
Chen Lin (1988), Chinese Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Alexander McDonnell (1798–1835), an Irish Master, who contested a series of six matches with the world’s leading player Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais in the summer of 1834.
Jean Taubenhaus  (14.12.1850-1919), was a strong Polish–born French Master who was teaching chess at the Cafe de la Régence in Paris.
Gerhard Paul Latzel (28.08.1912-1980), German chess composer.

CHESS EVENTS

1975 In Italy, Anatoly Karpov won the super strong category 14 of Milan ahead of Lajos Portisch.
1992 B. Khatanbaatar was the first Mongolian chess player to win the Asian Junior Championship.

WORLD EVENTS 

1741 George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
1752 The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).
1791 The Papal States lose Avignon to revolutionary France.
1812 Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Fire of Moscow begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city.
1901 U.S. President William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
1917 Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
1944 World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
1960 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
1960 Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup.
1982 President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.
1999 Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations.
2000 Microsoft releases Windows ME.
2003 In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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