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SUMMARY:February 20
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY\n\nAgon was just sold for one pound and the reputation of Ilyumzhinov’s FIDE is worth even less than that.- Garry Kasparov\, 2014\n\nBIRTH \nSergei Dolmatov (1959)\, Russian Grandmaster and coach who won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1978.\nRainer Buhmann (1981)\, a German Grandmaster who was German Youth Champion in 1999.\nPablo Lafuente (1985)\, an Argentine Grandmaster living in Spin.\nIbro Saric (1982)\, a Bosnian Grandmaster.\nAna Matnadze (1983)\, a Georgian International Master\, Woman Grandmaster\, and coach living in Spain.\nAna Srebrnic (1984)\, a Slovene Woman Grandmaster\, a FIDE Trainer and an International Arbiter who was as Slovenian women’s champion in 2008 and 2012. \nDEATH \nIsaac Kashdan (19.11.1905- 1985)\, an American Grandmaster\, chess editor of “Los Angeles’\, and International Arbiter 1960. Kashdan was one of the world’s best players in the late 1920s and early 1930s. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1995 Candidates Semi-finals in Shanghi Nagar\, India with a prize fund of $ 500\,000. A. Karpov (RUS) beat B. Gelfand (BLR) 6-3 and G. Kamsky (USA) beat V. Salov (RUS) 5½-1½ thus qualifying for the World Championship Final.\n2001 Woman Grandmaster Anna-Maria Botsari from Greece beat the simultaneous play record held by the Chinese player Ye. She played against 1102 players in 29 hours\, which put her into the Guinness Book of Records. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1547 Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.\n1816 Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.\n1864 American Civil War: Battle of Olustee: The largest battle fought in Florida during the war.\n1872 The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.\n1877 Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.\n1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt\n1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran.\n1922 Vilinus\, LVilniusa\, agrees to separate from Poland.\n1933 – The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.\n1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers.\n1947 State of Prussia ceases to exist.\n1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia.\n1962 John Glenn become 1st American to orbit the Earth\, aboard Friendship 7.\n1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party\n(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday) \n
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