BIRTHS

Karel Pospíšil (1867-06.04.1929),  a Czech chess composer, a pianist, and music composer.
Bo Waldemar Lindgren (1927 – 04-06-2011) Swedish chess composer and Grandmaster for chess composition.
Petr Velicka (1967), a Czech Grandmaster.
Ramil Hasangatin (1972), a Russian Grandmaster.
Attila Czebe (1975), a Hungarian Grandmaster
Leonid Kritz (1984), a German Grandmaster who move to study in the US. He is married to the Russian GM Nadezhda Kosintseva.
Levan Pantsulaia (1986), a Georgian Grandmaster who was 2008 Georgian Champion and 2002 World U16 Champion.
Bryan Smith (1980), a US Grandmaster.
Shiqun Ni, (1997), a Chinese Woman Grandmaster who was 2016 Women’s World University Champion.

DEATHS

Lyudmila Rudenko (27.07.1904-1986),  a Soviet International Master and Woman Grandmaster who became the second Women’s World Chess Champion (1950-1953).

CHESS EVENTS

1981. In Moscow for the USSR U26 Teams Championship, Anatoly Karpov met for the first time Garry Kasparov over the board, the players drew in 41 moves.
1983 Candidates Quarterfinal in Moscow, G. Kasparov USSR beat A. Beliavsky USSR 6-3.

WORLD EVENTS 

364 Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman emperor.
1616 Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
1797  Bank of England issued 1st £1-note.1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
1829 Levi Strauss, creator of blue jeans, was born.
1848 Karl Marx and Frederich Engels published “The Communist Manifesto”.
1885 The Congress of Berlin gave Congo to Belgium and Nigeria to England.
1919 President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
1935 Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
1980 Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
1983 Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” album went to #1 and stayed #1 for 37 weeks.
1993 World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.
1995 The UK’s oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.

(Source: Wikipedia and Timeline)

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