BIRTHS

Armand Edward Blackmar (1826-), an American player and musician who he is best known to have introduced the gambit  1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.f3.
John Wisker (1846-18.01.1884), an English chess player and journalist.
Mikhail Golubev (1970), a Ukrainian Grandmaster, journalist, and author.
Jana Krivec (1980), a Slovenian Woman Grandmaster who won7 title of Slovenian Women’s Champion.
Ilmars Starostits (1979), a Latvian Grandmaster who won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2002.

CHESS EVENTS

2007 In Ekaterinburg Russia, China won the first Women’s World Team Championship ahead of Russia and Ukraine.
2012 In Moscow at the State TRETYAKOV Gallery, the World Chess Championship sponsored by Andrey Filatov ended after 12 games with classical time control in a draw 6:6, so the Champion was determined during the tie-break. The players had to play four games with the time control of 25 minutes till the end with an incrementof 10 seconds after each move. Anand beat Gelfand in the second game and remained the World Chess Champion

WORLD EVENTS

AD 70 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem.
1431 Hundred Years’ War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
1631 Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
1814 Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition: The Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon is exiled to Elba.
1913 The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War; Albania becomes an independent nation.
1958 Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1961 The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1967 The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1974 The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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