BIRTHS<br />

Samuel Boden, (1826-13.01.1882, an English Master, and author.<br />
Lajos Portisch (1937), a Hungarian Grandmaster and a good singer who was a World Candidate in few occasions.<br />
Andrey Kharitonov (1959-13.01.2012), a Russian Grandmaster.<br />
Murray Chandler (1960), a New Zealander and English Grandmaster who won the first Asian U20 Championship. A former editor of the British Chess Magazine.<br />
Mikhail Panarin (1983), Russian Grandmaster who was Russian Rapid Chess Championship 2013.<br />
Yaniet Marrero Lopez, (1983), a Cuban Woman Grandmaster who was Women’s Cuban Champion in 2011.<br />
Alexander Zubov (1983), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was joint third in the 2003 World Junior Championship.<br /><br />

CHESS EVENTS<br />

1967. Monaco. Despite a lost to Efim Geller, Robert Fischer won convincingly the International Tournament of Monaco. The tournament which had a lot of success at the beginning of the 20 century was resuscitated after a disappearance of more than 60 years.<br />

2014 In Khanty-Mansiysk Russia, the former World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand won the Candidate Tournament. Anand took control of the tournament with early wins against Levon Aronian and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov then following an additional win against Veselin Topalov remained in control of the event to the end.<br /><br />

WORLD EVENTS<br />

1147 First historical record of Moscow.<br />
1721 Sir Robert Walpole becomes the first British prime minister.<br />
1814 Napoleon abdicates for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French.<br />
1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam).<br />
1841 Vice President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States after the death of President William Henry Harrison.<br />
1850 Los Angeles is incorporated as a city.<br />
1939 Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.<br />
1945 World War II: Soviet troops liberate Hungary from German occupation and occupy the country itself.<br />
1949 Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.<br />
1960 France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.<br />
1973 The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.<br />
1979 Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.<br />
1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.<br />
1991 The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress.<br />
2002 The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.<br />
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)<br /><br />

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