BIRTHS

Alexandre Deschapelles (1780–1847)a French chess player who, between the death of Philidor and the arrival of Louis de la Bourdonnais, was probably the strongest player in the world.
Jacobus Peet (07-03-1831 – 24-04-1914) Dutch chess composer.
Georgi Petrov Tringov (1937), Bulgarian Grandmaster who was Bulgarian Champion in 1963.

DEATH

Hermann von Gottschall ( 16.10.1862-1933)a  German chess master, an author, and editor of chess magazine.
Sergey Vsevolodovich Belavenetz (18.07.1910 – 07.03.1942), Soviet chess player and chess theorist, Master of USSR Sports.

CHESS EVENTS

2015 07.03 In Jerusalem Israel, Evgeniy Najer became the 2015 European Champion ahead of David Navara (CZE) and Mateusz Bartel (POL).

WORLD EVENTS

161 Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor died (b. 86)
1765 Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography was born (d. 1833)
1854 Charles Miller patented the 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes.
1875 Composer Maurice Ravel was born in Cibourne, France.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the “telephone”.
1914 Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
1936 In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 In Yugoslavia the Communist government of Tito was formed.
1969 Israel elects the first female leader Golda Meir has been elected as the first female prime minister of Israel following Levi Eshkol’s death.
1973 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920-1975), a leader of the Bangladeshi independence movement and first prime minister of Bangladesh, won a landslide victory in the country’s first general elections.
1977 Ali Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party won elections.
1999 Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter died (b. 1928)
2003 Mohamed ElBaradei, UN chief nuclear weapons inspector, expressed frustration at the quality of US information on Iraqi weapons and charged that some documents may have been faked.
2004 In Greece Costas Karamanlis (47) led the New Democracy party over former Foreign Minister George Papandreou’s Socialists.
(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)

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