On This Day: February 17

Johannes van Dijk 1866
Murray Marble 1885
Anatole Ianovcic 1897
Saul Segenreich 1903
Frank Healey 1906
Ferenc Fleck 1908
John Nix 1911
Murray Marble 1919
Siegbert Tarrasch 1934
Lhamsuren Myagmarsuren 1938
Walter P. Shipley 1942
Stefan Dittrich 1950
Viktor Kalyagin 1953
Sergey Janovsky 1960
Cyril Kipping 1964
Vasil Spasov 1971
Dov Zifroni 1976
Almira Skripchenko 1976
Alexander Naumann 1979
Andrei Murariu 1986
Edhi Handoko 2009
Anatoly Machulsky 2017


1996: Susan Polgar wins Women’s Championship