BIRTHS

Peter Clarke, (1933), an English Correspondence Grandmaster who was the author of the British system of Grading.
Alexander Vaulin (1957), a Russian Grandmaster.
Jim Plaskett (1960), an English Grandmaster living in Spain who was British Champion in 1990.
Svetlana Prudnikova (1967), a Russian-Serbian Woman Grandmaster who won twice both the Russian women’s
championship, in 1992 and 1998, and the FR Yugoslavia women’s championship, in 2000 and 2002.
Vasiliy Ivanchuk (1969), a Ukrainian Grandmaster, World Rapid Chess Champion 2016 who reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002.
Anastasia Savina (1992), a Russian Woman Grandmaster

CHESS EVENTS

1941 France. The antisemitic articles signed by A. Alekhine appears in the Pariser Zeitung.
1975 18.03 FIDE GA refused Fischer’s requests to amend the world championship regulations after a vote of 35-32 and 3 abstentions.  The GA accepted the following model: 10 victories, draws not counting, without a limit to the total number of games.

WORLD EVENTS

AD 37 The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’s will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
633 Ridda wars: The Arabian Peninsula is united under the central authority of Caliph Abu Bakr.
1229 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.
1438 Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1850 American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
1871 Communards revolt in Paris.
1900 Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club) is formed.
1913 King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience
1948 Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split.
1962 The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun iThe Chesspedian 1954.
1967 Beatles’ “Penny Lane” single goes #1
1990 Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
1994 Bosnia’s Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(Source: Wikiepdia-Onthisday)

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