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BIRTHS

Viacheslav Osnos (1935-27.08.2009), Russian Russian International Master, trainer and author who between 1968 and 1974 he was one of Viktor Korchnoi’s seconds.
Anthony Kosten (1958) England grandmaster and coach who is living in France.
Ludger Keitlinghaus (1965), German Grandmaster.
Tigran Gharamian (1984), Armenian-French chess Grandmaster, runner-up on tiebreak to Christian Bauer at the French Championships (2015).
Vugar Gashimov (1986-10.01.2014), Talented Azerbaijani Grandmaster who was a solid member of the world top 10. Vugar Gashimov fell ill in February 2000, doctors diagnosed epilepsy. Subsequently, a brain tumor was found.
Aramis Alvarez Pedraza, Aramis (1988), Cuban Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Nicolas Rossolimo (20.02.1920-1975) was an American-French-Greek-Russian  Grandmaster. He emigrated to France in 1929 then, in 1952 he emigrated to the United States, and won the 1955 U.S. Open Chess Championship.

CHESS EVENTS

1884. The British Chess Federation is inaugurated at a meeting called by Hoffer, at Simpson’s Divan. Lord Tennyson was the President.
1925 The FIDE GA proposed to write the first draft of Chess Rules.
1930 The FIDE GA accepted Lithuania and Iceland as full members but rejected Scotland who was still part of Great Britain. FIDE has 28 members.

WORLD EVENTS

1411 Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
1783 The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
1823 In Maracaibo, Venezuela, the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla, defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
1866 Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1915 The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
1922 The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
1923 The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1974 Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaedWhite House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1980 The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men’s 4 x 100-metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
2019 Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May

(Source: Wikipedia)

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