BIRTHS

Erik Andersen (1904 27.02 1938) a Danish Master who was twelve-times Danish Champion.
Robert G. Wade (1921 a New Zealander International Master and author who was national Champion and twice the winner of the British Championships.
Viacheslav Dydyshko (1949), a Belarus Grandmaster.
Elizbar Ubilava (1950), a Georgian Grandmaster who worked with Ioseliani, Karpov, and Anand.
Michel Caillaud Michel (1957), a French Problemist
Elmar Magerramov (10.04.1958), an Azeri grandmaster who shared first place in the last USSR Chess Championship.
Alexander Huzmander (1962), an Israeli Grandmaster born in Russia. The coach of Boris Gelfand for the last 15 years.
Dmitry Kryakvin (1984), a Russian Grandmaster.

DEATH

Sam Loyd (30.01.1841-1911), a famous American composer who created more than thousands of chess problems which many of them got prizes.

CHESS EVENT

1921 In Havana, J.R. Capablanca is declared World Champion after beating Emanuel Lasker 9-5.

WORLD EVENTS

879 – Louis III and Carloman II become Kings of the Western Franks.
1516 1st Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area
1815 The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people
1821 Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government f
1858 After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico
1912 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
1932 Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected President of Germany in a runoff election against Adolf Hitler
1938 Austria becomes a state of Germany.
1970 Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir.
2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.
(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)

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