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SUMMARY:February 18
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY\n\nVasiukov hadn’t won a single game against me for 59 years and then suddenly won. I can’t call it shame. Shame or no shame\, it’s a pity that he won…- Viktor Korchnoi \, 2012\n\nBIRTHS\n\nMeindert Niemeijer (1902-05.10.1987)\,  a Dutch lawyer\, banker\, managing director of an insurance company\, chess historian . and  Internationale Master for Chess Compositions. He donated over 7\,000 chess books to the Royal Hague Library.\nJan Plachetka (1945)\, a Slovakian Grandmaster and coach.\nAlois Lanc (1948)\, a Slovakian International Master and Grandmaster for correspondence chess.\nMladen Palac (1971)\, a Croatian Grandmaster who won the Croatian Championship in 2001 and 2004.\nHelgi Gretarsson (1977); an Icelandic Grandmaster who became the 1994 World Junior Champion.\nMaka Purtseladze (1988)\, a Georgian Woman Grandmaster.\nDmitry Kokarev (1982) a Russian Grandmaster who won Wolrd U18 Championship in 1999.\nJovana Vojinovic\, (1992)\, a Serbian Woman Grandmaster. \n\nWORLD EVENTS\n1898 Enzo Ferrari (d.1988)\, the Italian sports car manufacturer\, was born.\n1922 The French chess player Marcel Duchamp’s painting “Nude Descending a Staircase” was displayed at the Armory Show in NYC.\n1942 Japanese troop landed on Bali.\n1947 First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.\n1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.\n1965 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.\n1962 Robert F. Kennedy said that U.S. troops would stay in Vietnam until Communism was defeated.\n1982 Mexico devalued the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide.\n1988 Soviet Communist Party leaders dropped former Moscow party chief Boris N. Yeltsin from the ruling Politburo.\n1989 The author Salman Rushdie\, under a death sentence from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini for his book “The Satanic Verses\,” expressed regret for any distress he’d caused Muslims.\n(Source: Timeline)\n\n\n
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