QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Andre Marceil (1902-15.05.1969), a French chess composer.
Herbert Grasemann (1917-21.06.1983), a German chess composer born in Poland.
Wolfgang Pietzsch (1930-29.12.1996), a German Grandmaster and a teacher of mathematics and physics. The Champion of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1960, 1962 and 1967. Germany.
Duncan Suttles (1945), a Canadian Grandmaster and Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess born in the USA.
Roberto Cifuentes Parada (1957), a Chilean Grandmaster who won five times Chilean Chess Championship before to move to Holand then to Spain.
Olivier Renet (1964), a French Grandmaster and coach. He was Karpov’s second during the Karpov-Kasparov match in 1990.
Pavel Tregubov (1971), a Russian Grandmaster and coach living in France married to A. Kosteniul. The first European Champion (2000).

DEATH

Anton Hosslinger (1959), a German player who introduced in Germany the first chess rating system named Ingo in 1948.

WORLD EVENTS

69 The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors.
1898 French Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover the radium.
1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to an independent nation.
1937 SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
1946 An 8.1 M_w earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kills over 1,300 people and destroys over 38,000 homes.
1949 Dutch 1st Chamber accept the sovereignty of Indonesia.
1958 General Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France with an overwhelming majority.
1988 A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
1995 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.

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