BIRTHS

Fritz Gygli (11.1896-1980) a Swiss Master who was Swiss Champion in 1941 and a participant at three Olympiad before WWII.
Heikki Markku Julius Westerinen (1944), Finnish Grandmaster who won 4 Finnish Championships and participated in 19 Olympiads.
Gennady Timoschenko (1949), Slovakian Grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer born in Russia who was a coach of Garry Kasparov for some time in the 1980’s.
Darius Ruzele, Darius (1968), Lithuanian Grandmaster who was the national champion in 1988 but doesn’t play anymore.
Pavel Smirnov (1982), Russian who became the University World Chess Championship in 2004.
Zoja Severiukhina (1990), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Jahongir Vakhidov (1995), an Uzbek Grandmaster.

DEATH

William Jones (1746-1794), and English historian of chess, orientalist and a poet. The name of his first poem was Caissa.

CHESS EVENTS

1921 Cuba. The World Championship Match E. Lasker-JR. Capablanca is at his end with a score of 9-5 in favor of the Cuban. JR Capablanca is crowned World Champion. He won the 14^th and last game on April 21. On 27^th Lasker announced his resignation due to bad health.
1957 USSR.  Leading after the first game at the World Championship in Moscow, Vassily Smyslov didn’t allow Mikhail Botvinnik to make a come-back. Vassily Smyslov won the match 6-3 and 13 draws and became the seventh World Champion.
1965 Candidates Quarterfinal in Moscow, Efim Geller USSR – Vasily Smyslov USSR ended 5½-2½.

WORLD EVENTS

711 – Islamic conquest of Hispania: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar to begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
1565 Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1810 Beethoven composes Für Elise.
1570 Pope Pius V declares Queen Elizabeth I a heretic.
1906 The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
1909 Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
1945 World War II: Benito Mussolini is arrested by Italian partisans in Dongo while attempting escape disguised as a German soldier.
1960 Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
1961 Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
1974 Ten thousand march in Washington, D.C., calling for the impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon
1981 Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1992 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
2014 Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints in the first papal canonization since 1954.
(Source: Wikiepdia)

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