BIRTHS

Viktor Tietz (1859- 08.12.1937), a Czech–German player and organizer. He invented the tie-break system now called the Tietz system.
Margareta Teodorescu (1932-22.01.2013), a Romanian Woman Grandmaster who won four times the Romanian Women’s Championship.
Garry Kasparov, born Weinstein (1963), an outstanding Russian Grandmaster who became the 13^th World Champion in 1985.
Konstantin Sakatev (1974), a Russian chess Grandmaster (1993), chess author and Russian champion in 1999.
Gergely Andras Gyula Szabo, (1983), a Romanian Grandmaster.
Vladimir Dobrov (1984), a Russian Grandmaster who won the Russian U20 champion in 2004.

WORLD EVENTS

1111 Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1204 Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1250 The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.
1742 George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
1849 Hungary becomes a republic.
1902 James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1919 The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea is established.
1943 World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced,
1945 World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
1965 The Beatles record their single “Help”
1987 Portugal and the People’s Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
1994 Presidential guard at Kigali, Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
1997 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.