BIRTHS

Conel Hugh O’Donel Alexander (1909-15.02.1974), a British International Master born in Ireland, International Correspondence Master who is also known to worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
Michael Valvo (1942-18.09.2004), An American international Master.
Esteban Canal (19.04.1896-14.02.1981), a Peruvian Emeritus Grandmaster who
Toth Bela (1943), an Italian International Master born in Hungary who was Italian champion in 1975, 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1984. He became a Correspondence GM in 2004.
Zsuzsa Polgar (1969), an American Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who became Women’s World Champion in 1996. She is the sister of Sofia and Judit Polgar.
Manuel Apicella (1970), a French Grandmaster who won the French Chess Championship in 1992 .
Inna Dubinka (1975), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster.
Antoaneta Stefanova (1979), a Bulgarian Grandmaster who became Women’s World Champion in 2004.
Irina Vasilevich (1985), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Nikita Maiorov (1985), a Belarus Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1954 Czechoslovakia won the first World Student Team Championship, in Oslo, Norway.

WORLD EVENTS

1764 The English Parliament banned the American colonies from printing paper money.
1892 The prototype of the first commercially successful American automobile was completed in Springfield, Mass., by Charles E. Duryea and his brother Frank.
1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist, chemist (Nobel 1903), died. Curie was hit by a truck and killed as he crossed a street in Paris.
1938 General Francisco Franco declared victory in the Spanish Civil War.
1943 In Warsaw, Poland, young Jews under Mordechai Anielewicz directed the 1st urban uprising against the Nazis.
1968 The Secretary of the National Assembly in Czechoslovakia promised rehabilitation of political prisoners and freedom of the press, assembly, and religion.
1995 At 9:02 A.M. Oklahoma City, USA, a large car bomb exploded at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building killing 168 people, and injuring 500 including many children in the building’s daycare center.
1997 In Bulgaria the United Democratic Forces (UDF) under Ivan Kostov won elections with 52% of the vote.
1998 In Austria Thomas Klestil was re-elected a president with 63% of the vote.
1999 The German parliament inaugurated its new home in the restored Reichstag in Berlin, its prewar capital.
2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (78) of Germany became Pope Benedict XVI.
(Source: Timeline)

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