BIRTHS

Oscar Panno (1935), an Argentine Grandmaster and a World Champion Candidate who was World Junior Champion in 1953.
Paul Van der Sterren (1956) a Dutch Grandmaster, Dutch Champion and author who left chess in early 2000.
Valery Beim (1950) an Austrian Grandmaster born in Russia who is living and coaching in Vienna.
Enrico Sevillano (1968) an American Grandmaster born in the Philippines.
Anh Dung Nguyen (1976), a Vietnamese Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.
Corina-Izabela Peptan  (1978), a Romanian Woman Grandmaster who won nine times the Romanian Women’s Championship.
Jose Fernando Cuenca Jimenez (1987) a Spanish Grandmaster who was several times Spanish Youth Champion.

DEATHS

Jaenisch Carl Fredrich von (1813-1872) one of the first Russian masters, a theorist andnd professor of mathematics.
Semen Furman, (01.12.1920-1978) Soviet grandmaster (1966), theorist and Honored Coach of the USSR. he is known to be the main coach of Anatoly Karpov.

CHESS EVENTS

1992 The USSR Chess Federation held its last meeting in Moscow and declared that it no longer existed.
2009 The 10th European Individual Championship took place in Montenegro. The Russian Grandmaster Evgeny Tomashevsky won the title after a day of playoffs, He beat Vladimir Malakhov 2-1 in the final.
2010 In Rijeka Croatia, Ian Nepomniachtchi from Russia and Pia Cramling from Sweden became the new European Chess Champions.

WORLD EVENTS

455 Petronius Maximus becomes, with the support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1805 The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1861 The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1948 The Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1959 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1969 Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.

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