BIRTHS

Veniamen Shtyrenkov (1958), a Russian Grandmaster
Margarita Voiska (1963) a Bulgarian Woman Grandmaster
Alexei Barsov (1966), an Uzbek Grandmaster
Sanja Vuksanovic a Woman Grandmaster
Sukhrat Safin (1970), an Uzbek Grandmaster.
Maxim Novik (1970), a Russian Grandmaster
Michael Oratovsky (1974), an Israeli Grandmaster and coach born in Russia
Maris Krakops (1978), a Latvian Grandmaster who won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1998. In 2000
Tomi Nyback (1985) a Finnish Grandmaster, the youngest ever Finnish grandmaster in 2003.

DEATHS

Ernst Grunfeld (21.11.1893-1962), an Austrian Grandmaster and chess writer
Bobotsov Milko (30.10.1931-2000), a Bulgarian Grandmaster who was national champion in 1961 and was the first Bulgarian to get the title of Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1975 At 11:00 GMT FIDE issued the following statement: “Following yesterday’s statement, FIDE President Max Euwe this morning at 11 am not having received a cable from Fischer, had to declare the World Champion not available per article 2.3 of the Regulations for the match for the Men’s World Championship. In accordance with article 2.3 of the Regulations, FIDE President Euwe formally declared the Challenger, grandmaster Anatoly Karpov, the World Champion 1975”.
1977 Candidates Match in Lucerne, L. Polugaevsky (USSR) beat H. Mecking (BRA) 6½-3½.
1983 Candidates Quarterfinal in Alicante, Spain, Z. Ribli HUN beat E. Torre PHI 6-4. At the Women’s Candidates Quarterfinal, N. Alexandria (USSR) beat Lematchko (BUL) 5½-4½.
2011 In Aix les Bains France, Vladimir Potkin from Russia won the 2011 European Individual Championship ahead of Radoslaw Wojtaszek from Poland.

WORLD EVENTS

1043 Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1764 Austrian Archduke Jozef crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor Josef II
1865 American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1882 American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
1922 Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1948 United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1981  The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
2010 Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
2016 The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)

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