QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Hugh Francis Blandford (1917–20-09-1981), British chess composer.
Visvaldis M. Veders (1921 – 11.05.1997), a Latvian chess composer.
Eeltje Visserman (1922 –23-03-1978), a Dutch Grandmaster for chess composition, and a chess columnist.
Theodor Ghitescu, (1934), a Romanian Honorary Grandmaster who won the Romanian Championship in 1963.
Vladimir Petrovich Sychov (1936), a Belarusian chess composer.
Shilan Liu (1962), the first Chinese Woman’s Grandmaster who was seven-times the China Women’s Champion (1979–81, 1983-6).
David S. Markosian (1972), an Armenian Grandmaster.
Igor Miladinovic (1974), a Serbia-Greek Grandmaster born in Yugoslavia who was World Junior Champion in 1974.
Darini Pouria I. (1991), an Iranian Grandmaster.

DEATH

Alexander Flamberg (1880-1926), one of the strongest Polish masters of the beginning of the 20^th century.

WORLD EVENTS

1458 Matthias Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
1734 In Cracow the 2nd last king of Lithuania and Poland, August III, was crowned.
1742 Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
1862 Bucharest is proclaimed the capital of Romania.
1908 The first Boy Scout troop is organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell.
1918 The Gregorian calendar is introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People’s Commissars effective February 14(NS).
1924 The Russian city of St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad in honor of the late revolutionary leader. It has since been re-named St. Petersburg.
1943 Hitler ordered Nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death.
1965 Winston Churchill, former prime minister (1940-45, 51-55), died from a cerebral thrombosis in London at age 90.
1984 Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
2007 Israeli President Moshe Katsav, facing charges of rape and abuse of power, asked parliament to temporarily remove him from office in an effort to blunt growing calls for his resignation.
2008 French bank Societe Generale (SocGen) announced it has uncovered a $7.14 billion fraud, one of history’s biggest, by futures trader Jerome Kerviel (31).

(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)

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