BIRTHS

Anthony Miles (1955 -12.11.2001),  The first English Grandmaster who became World U20 Champion in 1974.
Yrio Rantanen (1950), Finnish Grandmaster who won the Finnish Championship in 1978 and 1986.
Pia Cramling (1963), a Swedish Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster and European Women’s Champion, the first female player to beat a top Russian Grandmaster: V. Korchnoi.
Lembit Oll (1966), a talented Estonian Grandmaster who committed suicide by jumping out of a fifth-floor window.
Petra Krupkova (1976), a Czech Woman Grandmaster.
Lela Javakhishvili (1984), an International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won twice the Women’s Georgian Championship.
Alexandra Kosteniuk (1984), a Russian Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who became Women’s World Champion in 2008.
Inga Charkhalashvili (1983), a Georgian Woman Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1824 England. First recording match (correspondence) between two clubs. Edinburgh beat London 3-2. It ended in July 1826.
1977 The USSR won the 6th European Team Championship in Moscow.
2009 In Beirut, Teheran won the Asian Cities Dubai Cup.

WORLD EVENTS

711 Dagobert III is crowned King of the Franks.
1635 The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
1661 King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1941 World War II: The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
1946 Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1961 Algiers putsch by French generals.
1984 AIDS-virus identified as HTLV-III (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
1990 Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
2005 The first ever Youtube video called “Me at the zoo” was published.
(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)

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