BIRTHS

Yakov Estrin (1923-02.02.1987), a Russian International Master, International Correspondence Grandmaster who was the seventh ICCF World Champion, 1972–76.
Lora Grigoryevna Yakovleva (1932), a Russian Woman Correspondence Grandmaster who was vice ICCF Women’s World Champion in correspondence chess between 1972 and 1977.
Silvio Danailov (1961), Bulgarian International Master and manager of V. Topalov, former ECU President.
Leonid Gofshtein (1953-25.12.2005), an Israeli Grandmaster and coach born in Ukraine.
Mihail Marin (1965), a Romanian Grandmaster, coach, and author.
Hansen Sune Berg Hansen (1971), a Danish Grandmaster who was 6 times Danish Champion.
Chao b, Li (1989), a Chinese Grandmaster who was Asian Champion in 2013.
S. Arun Prasad (1988), an Indian Grandmaster who was… the 116th Scottish Chess Champion in 2009!

CHESS EVENTS

1998 Xu Yuhua CHN became Asian Women’s Champion in Malaysia.

WORLD EVENTS

1509 Henry VII (b.1457), 1st Tudor king of England (1485-1509).
1935 King Boris of Bulgaria forbade all political parties.
1941 Greece surrendered to Nazi Germany.
1945 He Shima, Okinawa, was conquered in 5 days with 5,000 dead.
1948 The 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US.
1954 Gyorgy Malenkov became the premier of USSR.
1960 Brazil inaugurated its new capital, Brasilia, transferring the seat of national government from Rio de Janeiro.
1967 In Greece “The Colonels” led by Colonel George Papadopoulos (1919-1999) took power in a bloodless military coup.
2002 In France the 1st round of presidential elections put Jean-Marie Le Pen, a right wing extremist, into a runoff with Pres. Jacques Chirac.
2002 In Hungary, the Socialists and allies won elections, Peter Medgyessey became the prime minister.
2003 China (13) and Hong Kong (6) reported 19 new deaths from SARS.
2010 In Sri Lanka veteran politician Dissanayake Mudiyansalage Jayaratne took the oath of office as the country’s 20th prime minister.
(Source: Timeline)

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