QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Alexander Wittek (1852-11.05.1994), an Austrian architect and chess Master.
Folke Ekstrom (1906-20.01.2000), Swedish International Master and International master of Correspondence chess.
Josef Pribyl (1947), Czech International Master who played the Olympiads between 1970 to 1974.

WORLD EVENTS 

1492 Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies.
1799 Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters.
1810 First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
1822 Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Empire of Brazil.
1847 German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG.
1901 President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House.
1933 The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1960 Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion ofSoviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe
1960 Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed and killed during a live broadcast.
1968 Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
1970 Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
1999 Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999 The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.

GAME OF THE DAY