QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Hermann Helms (1970-1963), an American player, writer, and promoter.
Arthur Mandler (1891-20-10-1971), a Czech chess composer.
Wilhelm Hagemann 1899-12.01.1939), a German chess composer.
Lutz Espig (1949), a German Grandmaster who was East German Champion in 1969 and 1971.
Leif Ogaard (1952), a Norwegian Grandmaster who won the Norwegian Chess Championship five times, in 1974, 1975, 1979, 1985 and 1993.
Oldrich Duras (30 October 1882-1957), a Czech Grandmaster and chess composer born in Austria-Hungary.
Milos Pavlovic (1964), a Macedonian Grandmaster who won the Macedonia Championship in 2002.
Alexander Potapov (1961), a Russian Grandmaster.
Szuzana Maksimovic, (1962), a Serbian Woman Grandmaster (1962).
Fabien Libiszewski (1984) a French Grandmaster.
Babu Lalith (1993), an Indian Grandmaster.
Rout Padmini, Rout (1994), an Indian Woman Grandmaster.
Luis Lázar Aguero Jimenez (1991), a Cuban Grandmaster.

DEATH

Yasuji Matsumoto (20.11.2003), a Japanese player and President of the Japanese chess federation.

CHESS EVENTS

1977 L. Ftacnik (CSR) won the 6^th European Junior Championship in Groningen, Netherlands.
1977 M. Diesen (USA) won the 15^th World Junior Championship in Groningen, Netherlands.
1979 J. van der Wiel (NED) won the 8^th European Junior Championship in Groningen.
1981 R. Akesson (SWE) won the 10^th European Junior Championship in Groningen.
1982 C. Hanssen (DEN) won the 11^th European Junior Championship in Groningen.
1982 05.01 C. Hanssen DEN won the 11^th European Junior Championship in Groningen.
1991 05.01 R. Djurhuus NOR won the 20^th European Junior Championship in Arnhem.
2016 05.01 In Victoria, Mahe Island Seychelles, IM David Silva of Angola won the 2015 African Junior Championship. WIM Shahenda Wafa of Egypt won the Girls Championship.

WORLD EVENTS

1589 Catherine de Medici (b.1519), Queen Mother of France, died at age 69.
1875 The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.
1895 Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil’s Island.
1914 The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and that it would pay a “living wage” of at least US$5 for a day’s labor.
1919 The German Workers’ Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
1933 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1968 Alexander Dubček comes to power; “Prague Spring” begins in Czechoslovakia.
1970In China, a 7.7 earthquake in Yunnan province killed over 15,000 people and was covered up by authorities amid the chaos of the cultural revolution.
1976 The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
2007 Hitachi announced the 1st 1-terrabyte hard drive, eclipsing Seagate’s 750-gigabyte drives.
2010 Google introduced its Nexus One smart phone.

(Source: Wikipedia and Timeline)

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