QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-01.09.1924), an English Master who dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century.
Vatslav Gebelt (1913-16-10.1999), a Russian International Master for Chess Composition born in Belarus.
Herbert Bastian (10.12 1952), a German International Master, FIDE officer and President of the German Chess Federation since 2014.
Robert Ruck (1977), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Bu Xiangzhi (1985), a Chinese Grandmaster (at the age of 13 years, 10 months) who was the Chinese champion in 2004 and a  member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 2015 World Team Chess Championship.
Aleksandr Volodin (1990), an Estonian Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Karoly Sterk (19.09.1881-1946), a good Hungarian Master who represented Hungary at the first international team tournament in Paris 1924.
Maximilian Ujtelky (20.04.1915-1979), a Slovak International Master who share first at the Czechoslovakian chess championship in 1960.
Mark Carl Diesen (16.09.1957-2008), an American International Master and chemical Engineer who became the World Junior Champion in 1976.

CHESS EVENTS

1929 FIDE published its first Chess Rules with 25 regulations.
1996 FIDE President Ilyumzhinov announced in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, the first World Championship Knockout Series for the end of 1997, with a record US$ 5,000,000 prize fund. A. Karpov and G. Kasparov RUS would be invited to join the winners of Round 5 in the  semi-finals.

WORLD EVENTS

1510 – Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
1684 – Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
1799 – France adopts the ‘metre’ as its official unit of length.
1816 Dutch regain Sumatra from the British
1817 Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
1868 The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1901 The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
1906  U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
1907 Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel prize for literature, the first English-language writer to do so
1926 2nd part of Hitler’s Mein Kampf is published.
1932 Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1936 Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
1941 Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines.
1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam.
1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1963 Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
1964 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo.
1975 Andrei Sakharov’s wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize.
1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1983 Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
1994 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
1996 The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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