BIRTHS

Igor Khenkin (1968), German Grandmaster born in Russia who was German Champion in 2011.
Zoltan Medvegy (1979), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Anuar Ismagambetov (1986) a Kazakh Grandmaster who plays for the national team since 2006.
Swaminathan Soumya (1989), an Indian Woman Grandmaster who was  World Junior Girls’ Championship 2009 and Indian Women’s Champion in 2011.
Homayoon Toufighi (1990), an Iranian Grandmaster who was Asian U18 Championship and few times Iranian Youth Champion.

WORLD EVENTS

1188 Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
1413 Henry V becomes the King of England.
1871 Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
1919 The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1935 Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland.
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage.
1963 Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.
1964 Beatles’ “She Loves You” single goes #1 in the US & stays #1 for 2 weeks.
1980 US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
2006 The social media site Twitter is founded.

(Source: Wikiepdai-Onthisday)