BIRTHS

Itzrak Aloni (1905 1985 ), an Israeli Master who became Israeli champion in 1945, 1961, and 1965.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (1962), the president FIDE since 1995, he organized five world championships and the 33rd Chess Olympiad in Elista.
Petar Genov (1970) a Bulgarian Grandmaster who won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 1993 and 1999.
Dzhakay Dzhakaev (1980 ), a Russian Grandmaster who is not active anymore.
Tatania Fatianova (1984), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Alexey Kim, (1986), the only Korean Grandmaster who was studying in Moscow.
Jan Smeets (1985) a Dutch Grandmaster who won twice the Dutch Championship.
Erwin L’Ami (1985), a Dutch Grandmaster who worked as second of Topalov.
Vugar Rasulov (1991), an Azeri Grandmaster who was European U16 champion in 2007.

DEATHS

Samuel Reshevsky (26.11.1911-1992), an American Grandmaster, few times national champion who he came equal third in the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament.
Minic Dragoljub Minic (1937-05.04 2005),  a Serbian Grandmaster who won the championship of Yugoslavia in 1962.
Arthur Bisguier (08.10.1919-2017), an American Grandmaster who was U.S. champion in 1954.

CHESS EVENTS

1970 The team of USSR beat a selection of the Rest of the World 20.5-19.5 in Belgrade.
1986 Candidates Semi-final in Riga, USSR, A. Sokolov USSR defeated A. Yusupov 7½-6½.

WORLD EVENTS

823 Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
1751 Adolf Frederik of Holstein-Gottorp crowns himself king of Sweden
1879 Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style.
1945 Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow “temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory”.
1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
1955 Anthony Eden succeeds Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1956 Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)

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