QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Ricardo Calvo Minguez (1943-26.09.2002), Spanish International Master, doctor, and historian. In 1987, FIDE declared him “persona non grata” for a year , for writing a controversial article in New in Chess.
Zaw Win Lay (1963-03.10.2014)  Myanmar first Grandmaster who was a four-times Myanmar Champion.
Stefan Mohr (1967), Slovenian Grandmaster and coach born in Germany.
Martijn Dambacher (1979), Dutch Grandmaster.
Davorin Kuljasevic (1986), Croatian Grandmaster.
Andres Carlos Obregon (1986), Argentine Grandmaster.
Federico Perez Ponsa (1993), Argentine Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Hugh Alexander Kennedy (22.08.1809-1878),  a former British army captain and leading London chess player who was born in India.
William Lewis (1787-1870), English chess player and author.
Pieter Feenstra Kuiper (09.08.18888-1969), Dutch problemist who composed 125 problems in two moves.

CHESS EVENTS

1979 L. Portisch (HUN), T. Petrosian (USSR) and R. Hubner FRG were the qualifiers from the Rio Interzonal Tournament.

WORLD EVENTS

1797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
1836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1877 The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
1884 Greenwich, in London, England, is adopted as Universal Time meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.
1943 World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
1957 Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine” of the Communist nation.
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but turns down the honor.
1972 Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
1973 United Nations Security Council Resolution 338 calling for ceasefire of Yom Kippur War between Egypt and Israel is adopted.
2008 India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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