BIRTHS

Mikhail Ulibin (1971), a Russian Grandmaster who was a silver medalist in the World Junior Chess Championship of 1991.
Hua Ni (1983), a Chinese Grandmaster who is a three-time national champion.
David Arutinian (1984), an Armenian Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.
Jan Bernasek (1986), a Czech Grandmaster.
Dariusz Swiercz (1994), a Polish Grandmaster who won World Junior Chess Championship in 2011 and the World U18 in 2012.

DEATH

Jan Dobrusky (28.08.1953-1907), a Czech chess composer.

CHESS EVENTS

1964 USSR won the 4^th Correspondence Chess Olympiad.
1971 N. Alexandria, USSR won the first Women’s Interzonal Tournament, in Ohrid, Yugoslavia.
1971 Candidates Quarterfinal in Moscow, V. Korchnoi USSR beat E. Geller USSR 5½-2½.
1999 Alisa Galliamova passed the deadline to confirm if she was willing to replace Ms. Zs Polgar to play with Ms. Xie Jun in China at the World Championship match starting the end of June.
2004 Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine became the  European Individual Champion.
2015 In Chakvi Georgia, Natalia Zhukova (UKR) won her second European individual title by winning the 2015 European Women’s Individual Champ Individual ahead of Nino Batsiashvili (GEO) and Alina Kashlinskaya (RUS).

WORLD EVENTS

1790 The US copyright law was enacted.
1809 The musical composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in Vienna, Austria on his 77th birthday.
1879 The 1st electric railway opened at the Berlin Trades Exposition.
1902 The Boer War ended between the Boers of South Africa and Great Britain with the Treaty of Vereeniging.
1916 During World War I, British and German fleets fought the Battle of Skagerrak at Jutland off Denmark and 10,000 were left dead.
1926 The Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigned after the coup.
1961 South Africa became an independent republic.
1962 Adolph Eichmann (b.1906), Gestapo official and Nazi war criminal, was hanged near Tel Aviv.
1970 A 7.7 slab earthquake and debris flow in Peru killed 67,000, injured 50,000 and destroyed 186,000 buildings.
1979  Zimbabwe proclaimed its independence.
2001 Microsoft released its new Office XP for Windows software.
2002 European Union countries formally signed on to the Kyoto Protocol, a pact aimed at stemming pollution and global warming that has been opposed by the United States.
2005 A Russian court declared oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty of an array of charges, sentencing him to nine years in prison minus time served.
(Source: Timeline)

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