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SUMMARY:October 24
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nThank the stars that I have been banned by FIDE so it is very clear I have nothing to do with this mess…- Garry Kasparov\, 2015\nBIRTHS \nAndrey Dadian of Mingrelia (1850-12.06.1910)\, a Georgian military and chess amateur\, sponsor\, and a chess organizer.\nRobert Crepeaux (1900-10.02.1994)\, French Master who won three French Chess Championships.\nZlatko Klaric (1956)\, a Croatian Grandmaster (1956).\nJouni Yrjola was born in Vilppula\, a Finnish Grandmaster who was Finnish champion twice\, in 1985 and 1988.\nMeenakshi Subbaraman\, (1981)\, Indian Woman Grandmaster\nDing\, Liren\, (1992)\, Chinese Grandmaster who is a three-time Chinese Champion (2009\, 2011\, 2012) and was in the top 10 best world players in 2015.\nSantosh Gujrathi Vidit (1994)\, Indian Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nAlexander Kevitz (01.09.1901-1981)\, an American player who was ranked  third on the first USCF rating list in 1951. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1953 Vassily Smyslov of USSR won the Candidates Tournament in Zurich losing only one game against Alexander Kotov USSR.\n2008 24.10 In Kallithea\, Greece\, the teams of URAL Sverdlovskaya and CE Monte Carlo won the European Club Cup 2008 for men and women.\n2015 24.10 In Skopje\, FYROM\, the teams of Siberia (RUS) and Nona Batumi (GEO) became  the winners of the European Club Cup. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria\, Prussia\, and Russia.\n1917 – Bolshevik Red Guards began takeover of buildings in Russia\, among the first events associated with the October Revolution.\n1926 – Harry Houdini’s last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.\n1929 – “Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.\n1945 – Founding of the United Nations.\n1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.\n1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.\n1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia.\n2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.\n2004 – Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United\, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches\, which is the record in the Premier League.\n2008 – “Bloody Friday” saw many of the world’s stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history\, with drops of around 10% in most indices. \n
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