BIRTHS

Genrikh Kasparian (1910-27.12.1995), one of the pioneers of the Soviet chess composition. The author of the fundamental works in the theory of composition.
Jacques Mieses (1865-1954), German-born player and chess author, International Grandmaster and International Arbiter.
John Gerald Prentice (1907-1987), Canadian player born in Australia who was President of the Canadian CF and a FIDE officer.
Yifan Hou (1994), a Chinese Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who became the Women’s World Champion in 2010 and the best female chess player since 2014.
Trajko Nedev (1973), a Macedonian Grandmaster and author.
Elena Levushkina (1984), a German Woman Grandmaster born in Uzbekistan who played in four Women’s Olympiads for Uzbekistan and Germany.
Gergely Aczel (1991), a Hungarian Grandmaster.

DEATH

Gedeon Barcza (21.08.1911- 1986), a Hungarian International Grandmaster and International Correspondence Chess Master. He was 8 times Hungarian champion.

CHESS EVENTS

1993 Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short announced the creation of P.C.A. (Professional Chess Association).
WORLD EVENTS 

1594 Henry IV is crowned King of France.
1622 Rembrandt Carel Fabritius (d.1654), Dutch painter, was born.
1801 Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
1812 Argentine War of Independence: Manuel Belgrano raises the Flag of Argentina in the city of Rosario for the first time.
1844 The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
1870 The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
1900 Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
1933 Reichstag fire: Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility.
1949 Chaim Weizmann became the 1st Israeli president.
1963 The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.
1991 President Bush declared that “Kuwait is liberated, Iraq’s army is defeated,” and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight.
2008 The EU fined Microsoft Corp. $1.3 billion for charging rivals too much for software information. The fine is the largest ever for a single company and the first time the EU has penalized a business for failing to obey an antitrust order.

(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)

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