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BIRTHS

Frederick Dewhurst Yates (1884-11.11.1932), an English accountant who became a professional chess player and six times British Champion.
Victor Ciocaltea (1932-10.09.1983), a Romanian Grandmaster who won eight Romanian championships.
Carsten Hoi (1957), a Danish Grandmaster who was Danish champion in 1978, 1986 and 1992.
Irina Semenova (1968), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Eva Repkova (1975),  a Slovakian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who was Women’s Champion of Slovakia and Czechia.
Ghate Swati (1980), an Indian Woman Grandmaster who was the Women’s Indian Champion in 2006.
Valeriane Gaprindashvili (1982), a Georgian Grandmaster who was the European U12 Champion in 1993 and 1994 and the World U 14 Champion in 1995.
Amon Simutowe (1982), Zambian Grandmaster, the first from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Andrei Baryshpolets, (1991), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who is studying in the USA.

DEATHS

Heinrich Bernleitner (30-04-1937-2010), an Austrian chess composer.
Juan Zaldo Zapirain (18-03-1919-1963), a Spanish chess composer.

CHESS EVENTS

1926 After winning all her games, Vera Menschik (CZE) became the winner of the First Girls Open Championship. The tournament was known as the pre-Women World Chess championship.

WORLD EVENTS 

27 BC Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
1547 Ivan IV of Russia a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.
1556 Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1581 English parliament passed laws against Catholicism.
1707 The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
1920 The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
1925 Leon Trotsky was dismissed as Chief of Russian Revolution Military Council. Stalin took power over Trotsky.
1939 The comic strip “Superman” debuted.
1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets’ crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
1969  The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
1979 The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
1991 The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
1992 El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
2001 Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
2003 Microsoft announced its 1st dividend along with a stock split.

(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)

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