BIRTHS

Cecil Purdy (1906-06.11.1979), an Australian International Master born in Egypt who became the first World Correspondence Champion (1953-58).
Mikhail Brodsky (1969), a Ukrainian Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer who became Ukrainian Champion in 1990.
David Navara (1985), a Czech Grandmaster, the number one Czech player for many years who was the European Blitz Champion in 2014 and eight times Czech Champion.
Boris Grachev (1986), a Russian Grandmaster who was World U10 Champion and Russian U20 Champion.
Mo Zhai CHN (1996) a Chinese Woman Grandmaster who was Girls’ Under-12 World Youth Chess Championship.

DEATH

Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (24.03.1921-2010), a Russian Grandmaster who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.

CHESS EVENTS

2006 In Russia, Xu Yuhua of China won the Women’s World Chess Championship 2006 beating Alisa Galliamova of Russia in the final by 2½ to½.

WORLD EVENTS

1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland, and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1918 Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
1941 World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
1945 Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken.
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party.
1968 Suharto officially succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia.
1977 Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the worst aviation accident in history.
1993 Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People’s Republic of China.

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