QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Drago Makuc (1924 – 08-12-1962) Yugoslav composer.
Hartmut Hänneschen (1944) German composer.
Evgeny Vladimirov (1957),  Kazakh Grandmaster 1989.who was coaching Kasparov from 1983-86 then worked in India in the late 90’s.
Emil Anka (1969), a Hungarian Grandmaster and coach who emigrated in the USA.
Marc Narciso Dublan (1974). Spanish Grandmaster who won 5 times the championship of Catalonia.

WORLD EVENTS

1265 The first English parliament to include not only Lords but also representatives of the major towns holds its first meeting in the Palace of Westminster, now commonly known as the “Houses of Parliament”.
1320 The Duke Wladyslaw Lokietek becomes the King of Poland.
1840 The Dutch King Willem II crowned
1841 Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
1921 The first Constitution of Turkey is adopted.
1936 Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
1937 1st US Presidential Inauguration day held on Jan 20th, (previously March 4th)
1942 World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the “Final Solution to the Jewish question”.
1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President.
1961 The Democrat J.F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States.
1948 United Nations Security Council Resolution 39 relating to India and Pakistan is adopted.
1979 1 million Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leader.
1980 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow
1981 Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
2001 President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution.

(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)

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