BIRTHS

Albert Sidney Pinkus (1903– 04.02 1984), An American Master, author and stockbroker.
Andrei Sokolov (1963), a French Grandmaster and coach born in Russia. USSR Champion of 1984, he lost the 1987 Candidates’ final match against Anatoly Karpov.
Gleizerov, Evgeny, RUS, b-day 20.03.1963
20.03.1980; Khruschiov, Alexey, MDA, b-day
Antal, Gergely, HUN, b-day 20.03.1985
Skoberne, Jure, SLO, b-day 20.03.1987
20.03.1990; Rodshtein, Maxim, ISR, b-day

DEATH

Stepan Levitsky (25.04.1876-1924), a Russian master who won the 1911 All-Russian Amateur Tournament and became Russian Champion.

CHESS EVENTS

1983 20.03 Women’s Candidates Quarterfinal, N. Ioseliani USSR beat Liu CHN 6-3.

WORLD EVENTS

1760 The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
1848 Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1890 German Emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto von Bismarck
1915 Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1952 The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
1956 Tunisia gains independence from France.
1981 Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron is sentenced to 8 years
2003 Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 2-day tour.

(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)

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