Anatoly Lein (1931), an American Grandmaster born in Russia.
Tatania Roschina (1976), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Azer Mirzoev (1978),  an Azerbaijan Grandmaster.
Juan Borges Matos (1966), a Cuban Grandmaster who was Cuban Champion in 1987, 1993 and 1995.
Sergei Zhigalko (1989), a Belarus Grandmaster who won the Belarusian Championship in 2009, 2012 and 2013.

CHESS EVENTS

2004 The team of Tagaytay from Philipines won the Dubai Cup and the Asian Cities Championship.
2016 In Moscow, Sergey Karjakin won the Candidates Tournament and qualified for the World Championship Final Match against Magnus Carlsen.

WORLD EVENTS
193 Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
1842 First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, founded by Otto Nicolai.
1854 Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1920 Tomáš Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia.
1930 Turkish cities Constantinople & Angora change their names to Istanbul & Ankara.
1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1959 The State Council of the People’s Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
1990 United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
1994 Italy’s right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins the election.
(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)

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