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BIRTHS

Lajos Asztalos (1889-01.10.1956), Hungarian International Master, professor, and languages teacher.
Peter Romanovsky (1892-01.03.1964), Russian International  Master, International Arbiter, and author who Was Soviet Champion in 1923 and 1927.
Grigory Goldberg (1908-01.12.1976) Soviet player who was Botvinnik’s second for his World Championship matches in the 1950’s.
Victor Gavrikov (1957-27.04.2016), Lithuania-Swiss Grandmaster who shared first at the Lithuanian and Soviet championships and won the Swiss championship.
Yge Visser (1963), Dutch Grandmaster.
Ivan Zaja (1965), Croatian Grandmaster who as the Croatian champion in 2000 and 2001.
Alexei Iljushin (1980), Russian Grandmaster.
Valentina Golubenko (1990), Russian Woman Grandmaster andWorld U-18 girls champion of 2008.
Vladimir Belous (1993), Russian Grandmaster, a multiple champion of Russia among boys.
Urii Eliseev (1996), Russian Grandmaster who was World U16 champion in 2012.
Asghar Golizadeh (1990), Iranian Grandmaster who was a member of the Olympic team in 2012 and 2014.

DEATHS

Nikolay Krylenko (1885 29.07.1938 A Commissar for Justice, Krylenko was involved in Stalin’s purges in the 1930s. Krylenko headed the Soviet chess from 1930 until 1937.  Arrested by the NKVD, his trial lasted twenty minutes, he was found guilty and immediately shot.

CHESS WORLD

1148 The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1836 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
1900 In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1921 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1948 Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
1958 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1965 Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1973 Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
1980 Iran adopts a new “holy” flag after the Islamic Revolution.
1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
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