QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHDAY

Erich Brunner, (1885-16.05.1938), a German chess composer.
Jean Oudot (1926-29.12.1974), a French chess composer.
Joseph Henry Blake (03.03.1859-1951), an English Master who won the He was British correspondence champion in 1922.
Richard Clewin Griffith (22.07.1872), a British chess player, author and editor who won the British Chess Championship in 1912.
Valentin Lukov (1955), Bulgarian Grandmaster.
Hernan Salazar (1958), a Chilean International Master and International Arbiter.
Maxim Novik (1963), a Russian Grandmaster.
Tair Vahidov (1963), an Uzbek Grandmaster.
Viswanathan Anand (1969), an Indian Grandmaster. The 15th World Champion who defended his title 5 times.
Wang Pin (1974), a Chinese Woman Grandmaster who won the Chinese championship in 2002.
Matthew Turner (1975), an English-Scottish Grandmaster and a teacher.
Jones Gawain (1987), an English Grandmaster and author who  won the British Chess Championship in 2012

WORLD EVENTS

361 Julian enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the Roman Empire.
630 Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca.
1792 French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.
1816 Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
1868 Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops defeat Paraguayan at the Battle of Avay.
1913 “Mona Lisa” recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum.
1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia.
1931 Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada)
1937 Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.
1941 World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans’ declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
1946 The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
1958 French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community.
1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel.
1972 Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
1981 Muhammad Ali’s 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick.
1994 First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.
2001 The People’s Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
2008 Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
2015 “Playboy” magazine publishes its last nude issue, featuring Pamela Anderson on the cover.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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