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BIRTHS

Jan Hannelius, (1916-06.03.1974), a Finnish International Master (1977) and International Arbiter (1957).
Valentin Marin y Llovet (17.01.1872-1936), a Spanish player and composer.
Louis Roos (1957), a French International Master who was French Champion in 1977.
Nino Gurieli (1961), an International Master and Woman Grandmaster who became Georgian Women’s Champion in 1976.
Irisberto Herrera (1968), a Spanish-Cuban Grandmaster.
Andrei Maksimenko (1969), a Ukrainian Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.
Vladimir Akopian (1971), an Armenian Grandmaster born in Baku who won the World U-16 Championship in 1986, the World U-18 Championship and the 1991 World Junior Chess Championship.  In 1999 he made his way through to the final of the FIDE Knock-Out World Chess Championship but lost to Alexander Khalifman, 3.5-2.5.
Maxim Turov (1979), a Russian Grandmaster.

WORLD EVENTS

1787 Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1842 New York Philharmonic’s 1st concert.
1869 American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
1907 The First Egyptian Nationalist Congress meets under the leadership of Mustafa Kamil Pasha
1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1926 Gas refrigerator was patented.
1941 German siege of Tobruk ends after eight months
1941 World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1949 Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.
1953 Israel’s PM Ben-Gurion retires
1960 Ivory Coast claims independence from France
1965 Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
1972 Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched
1982 In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
1988 Spitak earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.8 (surface wave magnitude) kills more than 25,000, injures 30,000 and leaves 500,000 homeless out of a population of 3,500,000.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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