BIRTHS

Tjeerd Daniel van Scheltinga (1914-30.07.1994), a Dutch International Master.
Ken Whyld (1926-11.07.2003) a English player, writer, and chess historian.
Alexander Chernin (1960) a Hungarian Grandmaster, author and coach born in Ukraine who was European Junior Champion in 1979-80.
Maurice Ashley (1966), a US Grandmaster, coach, organizer, and commentator.
Javier Campos Moreno (1959), a Chilean Grandmaster who won twice the Chili Championship.
David Shengelia (1980), an Austrian Grandmaster and coach born in Georgia.
Luka Paichadze (1991), a Georgian Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Susanna (Sonja) Graf (16.12.1908-1965) a German Master who lived in the USA and was women’s world vice-champion and two-time U.S. women’s champion.
Ludek Pachman (11.05.1924-2003), a Czechoslovak-German Grandmaster involved in national politic. He was Czechoslovak and West German Champion.

CHESS EVENTS

1962 After a considerable delay, due to the fact that W. Uhlmann (GDR) could not obtain a visa for entry into the NATO countries, the Interzonal Tournament was organized in Stockholm under the direct sponsorship of FIDE. R. Fischer USA won this 6^th Interzonal Tournament with 17½/22.
1984 I. Levitina (USSR) won the Women’s Candidates’ final match in Sochi, after beating L. Semenova (USSR) 7-5.

WORLD EVENTS

1521 Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1836 Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie are killed and the fort is captured.
1853 Giuseppe Verdi’s Opera “La Traviata” premieres in Venice.
1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society.
1899 “Aspirin” (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer.
1904 The Japanese fleet bombards Vladivostok, the major Russian port on the Pacific.
1925 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmedy and Saint Vith
1946 Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1953 Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1957 Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
1964 Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
1970 Beatles release “Let it Be” in UK.
1983 Helmut Kohl’s CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections.
1991 Following Iraq’s capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H. W. Bush told Congress that the war is over.

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