QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Boris Verlinsky (1888-30.10.1950), a Soviet International Master who won the 6th USSR Championship. After the event, he was awarded the title of Soviet GM but the title was removed in 1931. It has been argued that this in order to make Mikhail Botvinnik the first Soviet GM.
Hermann Pilnik (1914-12.11.1981), an Argentine Grandmaster who won the Argentine Championships in 1942, 1945 and 1958.
Keith Arkell (1961), an English Grandmaster who became Wolrd Senior Champion.
Mingqian Wu (1960) a Chinese Woman Grandmaster.
Boris Avrukh (1978), an Israeli Grandmaster born in Kazakhstan who is living in Chicago. He won two
Israeli Championships and become the World Under-12 champion in 1990.
Ernst, Sipke (1979), a Dutch Grandmaster
Hrvoje Stevic (1980), Croatian Grandmaster who won the Croatian Championship in 2007, 2008 and 2013.
Sulennis Pina Vega (1981), Cuban Women Grandmaster.
Elisabeth Paehtz (1981), German International Master and Woman Grandmaster. The strongest female player in Germany who became the 2002 World U18 Girls Champion and 2005 the World Junior Girls Champion.
Thomas Roussel-Roozmon, (1988), Canadian Grandmaster
Hrair Simonian (1991), Armenian Grandmaster who finished joint first in the 2011 Armenian Chess Championship.

DEATH

Alexander Kotov (12.08.1913-1981) a Soviet Grandmaster, International Arbiter, coach, and writer. He won the Soviet title jointly with David Bronstein in 1948.

CHESS EVENTS

1958 – Bobby Fisher, at the age of 14, won the United States Chess Championship for the first time.

WORLD EVENTS

1297 François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.
1642 Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri, Italy.
1656 The oldest surviving commercial newspaper began in Haarlem, Netherlands.
1806 Cape Colony becomes a British colony.
1835 The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
1959 Charles De Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France’s Fifth Republic.
1871 Prussian troops began to bombard Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
1973 Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
1976 Chou En-lai (78), Chinese premier (1949-1976), died in Beijing.
1987 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 2000 mark for the first time at 2,002.25.
1993 Bosnian Prime Minister Hakija Turajlic was shot 7 times and killed by Serb gunmen in the presence of French peacekeepers.
1996 Francois Mitterrand (79), former Socialist president of France (1981-1995), died of prostate cancer.
2000 Uzbek Pres. Karimov was re-elected to a five-year term with more than 90 percent of the vote.
2008 Britain’s Royal Mail issued a set of stamps commemorating James Bond to mark 100 years since the birth of his creator, Ian Fleming.
2010 Venezuela’s Pres. Chavez issued a presidential decree devaluing the currency by up to 50%.

(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)

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