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SUMMARY:October 28
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nWhen Korchnoi was living in the USSR I called him ‘hero of socialist labour’; when he moved to the West I renamed him ‘hero of capitalist labour’!- Boris Spassky\nBIRTH \nTigger Christopher Robin Hillarp-Persson (1970)\, a Swedish Grandmaster who was a two-time Swedish Chess Champion.\nJaime Alexander Cuartas (1975)\, a Colombian Grandmaster.\nAlexander Evdokimov (1985)\, a Russian Grandmaster.\nOmar Almeida Quintana (1981)\, a Cuban Grandmaster.\nImre Balog (1991)\, a Hungarian Grandmaster.\nIgor Smirnov (1987)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster. \nDEATH\nHerman Ardiansyah (05.12.1951-28.10.2017)\, the first Indonesia Grandmaster. \nWORLD EVENTS \n312 – Constantine I defeats Maxentius\, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.\n1420 – Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.\n1492 – Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World.\n1538 – The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.\n1886 – President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.\n1893 – Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor\, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer’s death.\n1922 – Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.\n1940 – Second World War: Greece rejects Italy’s ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.\n1958 – John XXIII is elected Pope.\n1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. \n
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