QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Alberto Batori, Italian (26.02.1884-1923), an Italian player and chess composer.
Felix Levin (1958), an Ukrainian Grandmaster born in Germany.
Ildiko Madl (1969), a HungarianInternational Master and Women Grandmaster. A member of the Hungarian team with the Polgar’s sisters which won the 1990 Women’s Olympiad.
Ilaha Kadimova (1975), an Azerbaijani Woman Grandmaster who was Belarus Women’s Champion in 1990 and won a couple of European Youth championships.
Gisela Fischdick Gisela (1955), a German Women Grandmaster.
Maarten Solleveld (1979), a Dutch Grandmaster.
Mustafa Yilmaz (1992), a Turkish Grandmaster who was Turkish Champion in 2009.
Qun Ma, Qun (1991), a Chinese Grandmaster.
Max Illingworth, (1992), an Australian Grandmaster, coach and writer.

DEATH

Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky (25.09.1881-1965), Soviet Internal Master born in Ukraine.
Iuri Akobia (20.05.1937-2014), a Georgian chess composer.

CHESS EVENTS

1924 The Brazilian Chess Federation was founded.
2014 The 24th FIDE World Senior Championships took place at the Olympus Riviera of Katerini in Greece,  Zurab Sturua (GEO) and Anatoly Vaisser (FRA) became  the new World Champions for the senior categories 50+ and 65+ respectively while WIM Svetlana Mednikova (Russia) and the legendary GM Nona Gaprindashvili(Georgia) became  the new World Champions for the senior women’s categories 50+ and 65+ respectively.

WORLD EVENTS

1895 George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1911 After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
1912 Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States.
1916 The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
2006 Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi’a Muslims.
2007 China’s first lunar satellite, Change 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
2007 Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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