BIRTHS

Nicolas Rossolimo (1910-24.07.1975), a chess player of a sharp combinational style who was born in Kiev, lived in Paris and died in New York.
Nikolai Spiridonov (1938), a Bulgarian Grandmaster who was Bulgarian Champion in 1969.
Dmitry Kayumov, (1949), an Uzbek Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.
Vladimir Okhotnik (1950), a French Grandmaster born in Ukraine who won twice the title of World Senior Champion.
Konstantin Lerner (195024.09.2011), an Israeli Grandmaster born in Ukraine who was Ukrainian Champion in 1978 and 1982.
Henrik Teske (1968), a German Grandmaster and author.
Kaido Kulaots (1976), an Estonian Grandmaster who won eight Estonian Championships.
Dusan Popovic (1983), a Serbian Grandmaster
Bianca De Jong-Muhren, (1986), a Dutch Woman Grandmaster
Sabrina Vega Gutierrez (1987), a Spanish Woman Grandmaster who became the national Women’s Champion in 2008 and 2012.
Anna Muzychuk, (1990), a Ukrainian Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who became Women’s World Champion in 2015.

DEATH

Oscar Chajes (14.12.1873-1928), an American player born in Austria. He was the last person to defeat José Raúl Capablanca, at New York 1916, before Capablanca’s eight-year undefeated stretch from 1916 to 1924.
Stefán Kristjánsson (8.12.1982–2018), an Icelandic Grandmaster and professional poker player.
Gennady Kuzmin ( 19.01.1946-2020), an Ukrainian Grandmaster and coach.

CHESS EVENTS

1958 The second World Chess Correspondence Championship was won by V. Ragozin (USSR).
1977 At the Candidates Match in Rotterdam, L. Portisch (HUN) beat B. Larsen (DEN) 6½-3½.
1977 At the Candidates Match in Reykjavik, B. Spassky (USSR) beat V. Hort (CSR) 8½-7½.
1993 At the Women’s Candidates Final in Monaco, Nana Ioseliani (GEO) won on drawings of lots and qualified for the Final after beating the Hungarian GM Zs. Polgar. The final score was 2-2 and 2-2 on tiebreak games.
2015 In Tbilisi, Georgia, Evgeny Tomashevsky (RUS) won the 3rd leg of the FIDE Grand Prix.

WORLD EVENTS 

364 Valentinian I becomes Roman Emperor.
1667 English colony Suriname became an Dutch colony.
1897 Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
1922 The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1933 Adolf Hitler bans German Communist Party (KPD)
1935 DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
1953 James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA;
1954 The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
1954 The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
1972 US President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China.
1984 26th Grammy Awards: Michael Jackson wins 8 Grammys
1986 Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
1991 The first Gulf War ends.
2013 Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.
2019 The 2019 North Korea–United States summit is held in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is the second summit between United States President Donald Trump and the North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un.

GAME OF THE DAY