QUOTE OF THE DAY

QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904), an American librarian and scholar.
Victor Soultanbeieff (1895-09.02.1972) a Belgian Master born in Ukraine who won the Belgian championship 5 times.
Milko Popchev (1964), Bulgarian Grandmaster.
Maia Lomineishvili (1977), a Georgian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won the Women’s Georgian Championship five times.
Stepan Stepan (1988), Czech Grandmaster.
Yuri Vovk (1988), an Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Irina Bulmaga (1993), Romanian Woman Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Pierre D’Orville (05.05.1804-1864), French chess composer and author.
Nov 11, 1879: Johannes Seeberger (17.09.1843-1879), Austrian composer.
Frederick Yates (16.01.1884-1932) an English Master who won 6 times the British Championship.
Lodewijk Prins (27.01.1913-1999) a Dutch International Master, arbiter and author.

CHESS EVENTS

1981 Philippines won the Asian Team Championship in Hangzhow, China with 13½.
1982 After the second ballot, the FIDE GA approved with 65 votes the election of F.  Campomanes PHI as FIDE President. F. Olafsson ISL got 43 votes.
2000 Russia and China were the winners of the 34th Olympiads for men and women.
2011 In Greece, Germany and Russia are the winners of the European Team Championships.
2016. In New York, Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin started the battle for the world title.

WORLD EVENTS

1889 The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
1918 World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and this is commemorated annually with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919.
1918 Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland – symbolic first day of Polish independence.
1930 Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1962 Kuwait’s National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
1965 In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
1975 Independence of Angola.
1981 Antigua and Barbuda join the United Nations.
2004 The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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