All chess player Vera Menchik

Vera Menchik

Living place: Russia

Birthday: 16-2-1906

Global rank: #100294

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Who is All chess player Vera Menchik?
Female chess pioneer who is legendary for becoming the first ever woman Chess World Champion in 1927.
During her career, she won seven world championships and lost only one match, while winning 78 and drawing four matches.
 
 

Young / Before famous

Her family moved around Europe when she was a child.

Family life info

Her family lost most of their fortune during the Russian Revolution.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling All chess player Vera Menchik?
She was Judit Polgar in her day.

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When was All chess player Vera Menchik born?
Vera Menchik was born in 16-2-1906, death year is , at the age of 118.
Where is All chess player Vera Menchik's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Vera Menchik was born in Russia. is a All chess player, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. Vera Menchik's global rank is 100294 and whose rank is 264 in list of famous All chess player.
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Events in 1906 and 16-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Vera Menchik

  • Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, locates Magnetic North Pole.
  • Ethiopia declared independent in a tripartite pact; country is divided into British, French, and Italian spheres of influence.
  • Finland is the first European country to give women the vote.

Birthday Vera Menchik (16-2) in history

  • Day 16-2 year 1804: U.S. frigate Philadelphia, captured and held by Barbary pirates at Tripoli during the Tripolitan War, was set fire to and destroyed by a small group of men led by Stephen Decatur.
  • Day 16-2 year 1918: Lithuania proclaimed its independence from Russia.
  • Day 16-2 year 1923: The tomb of King Tutankhamen, discovered in 1922, was opened.
  • Day 16-2 year 1937: Nylon was patented.
  • Day 16-2 year 1959: Fidel Castro became the leader of Cuba after having ousted the right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista.
  • Day 16-2 year 1968: The country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala.
  • Day 16-2 year 1999: Turkish commandos captured Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya, sparking seizures of embassies in Europe by Kurds.
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