QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Oscar Cordel (1843-14.05.1923), a German player known for his work on the Spanish defence.
Philip Hamilton Williams (1873-14.09.1922), a British chess composer.
Laszlo Schor (1897), a Hungarian composer born in Romania.
Nikola Mitkov (1971), Macedonian Grandmaster.
Aliaksei Charnushevich (1978), a French Grandmaster born in Belarus.
Pontus Carlsson (1982), a Swedish Grandmaster born in Colombia.
Anna Sharevich (1985), an American Woman Grandmaster born in Belarus where she won few women’s national championships.

DEATH

Max Ignaz Weiss (21.07.1857-1943), an Austrian player who won few tournament in Austria and one in New York.

CHESS EVENTS

1983 At the Acorn Candidates World Championship Semi-Finals in London, G. Kasparov (USSR) beat V. Korchnoi SUI (7-4). At the same event, V. Smyslov (USSR) beat Z. Ribli (HUN) 6½4½.
1987 In Sevilla at the World Chess Championship, Garry Kasparov retained his World Championship title by winning the last game (24) and leveling the score at 12-12.
2011 In Turkey, China won the Women’s World Chess Team Championship ahead of Russia and Georgia.

WORLD EVENTS 

1777 The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
1796 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor).
1833 The national anthem of the Russian Empire, “God Save the Tsar!”, is first performed.
1865 US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.
1878 The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
1916 World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French and suffer 337,000 casualties.
1956 Japan admitted to UN.
1964 “The Pink Panther” cartoon series premieres.
2006 United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
2015 Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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