QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTH

Tigger Christopher Robin Hillarp-Persson (1970), a Swedish Grandmaster who was a two-time Swedish Chess Champion.
Jaime Alexander Cuartas (1975), a Colombian Grandmaster.
Alexander Evdokimov (1985), a Russian Grandmaster.
Omar Almeida Quintana (1981), a Cuban Grandmaster.
Imre Balog (1991), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Igor Smirnov (1987), a Ukrainian Grandmaster.

DEATH
Herman Ardiansyah (05.12.1951-28.10.2017), the first Indonesia Grandmaster.

WORLD EVENTS

312 – Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.
1420 – Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.
1492 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.
1538 – The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.
1886 – President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
1893 – Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer’s death.
1922 – Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
1940 – Second World War: Greece rejects Italy’s ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.
1958 – John XXIII is elected Pope.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.