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BIRTHS

Johannes Esser (1877-09.08.1946), a Dutch plastic surgeon who was Dutch Champion in 1913.
Frantisek Dedrle (1878 – 28-05-1957), Czech chess composer.
Jan Foltys (1908-11.03.1952), Czech International Master.
Alberto Foguelman (09.12.2013), Argentine International Master who won team bronze medal at the 1962 Olympiad.
Nana Alexandria (1949), Georgian Woman Grandmaster who was the challenger in two matches for the Women’s World Chess Championship.
Igor Yagupov (1965), Russia Grandmaster.
Ronen Har-Zvi, Israeli Grandmaster and coach living in the USA. He won the World U16 Chess championship in 1992.
Nisha Mohota (1980), Indian Woman Grandmaster.
Thal Abergel (1982), French Grandmaster and coach born in Israel.
Nikola Nestorovic (1989), Serbian Grandmaster.

DEATH

William Lombardy (04.12.1937-2017), an American Grandmaster, chess writer, teacher, and former Catholic priest.

CHESS EVENTS

1972 In Skopje at the chess Olympiad, the team of USSR with 42/60 finished 1½ points ahead of Hungary.
1972 The Soviet team had another convincing victory in the 5^th Women’s Olympiad in Skopje with 11½/14.

WORLD EVENTS

54 Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him.
1821 The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is publicly proclaimed.
1845 A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution that, if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas aU.S. state.
1881 First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
1884 The International Meridian Conference votes on a resolution to establish the meridian passing through the Observatory of Greenwich, in London, England, as the initial meridian for longitude.
1917 The “Miracle of the Sun” is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
1921 The Soviet republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia sign the Treaty of Kars with the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to establish the contemporary borders between Turkey and the South Caucasus states.
1923 Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.
1943 World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
1944 World War II: Riga, the capital of Latvia is occupied by the Red Army.
1988 Naguib Mahfouz wins Nobel Prize in Literature.
1990 End of the Lebanese Civil War. Syrian forces launch an attack on the free areas of Lebanon removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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