QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Luigi Ceriani (1894 – 08-09-1969), an Italian chess composer.
Victor Cioana (1939 – 07.01.2010), a Romanian chess composer and player.
Bo Jonsson (1950) Swedish chess composer.
Henrique Mecking (1952), a Brazilian Grandmaster and former priest who was one of the best world players in the 1970s.
Rolando Kutirov (1962) or Rolando Redzepagic, a Macedonian Grandmaster who participated in three Olympiads.
Rogelio Barcenilla (1972), a Filipino Grandmaster and a coach.
Aleksander Lastin (30.11.1976-1915), a Russian grandmaster who was Russian Champion in 2002.
Joanna Worek (1986), a Czech born-Polish who won the Czech Women’s Championship in 2016.
Yang Shen (1989), a Chinese International Master and Woman Grandmaster who was the Girls’ World Junior Champion in 2006 and the Chinese Women’s Champion in 2009.

WORLD EVENTS

1368 In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1556 The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
1719 Liechtenstein became a sovereign member state of the Holy Roman Empire.
1899 Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
1941 Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1958 After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela.
1973 United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam.
1983 Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis.
1996 The first version of the Java programming language was released.
1998 Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source.

(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)

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