QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Israel Albert Horowitz (1907-18.01.1973), an American International Master, author and columnist.
Fritz Gorschen (1911-1981), a German player and writer.
Hans Ree (1944), a Dutch Grandmaster, author, and columnist.
Bojan Kurajica (1947), a Bosnian Grandmaster who won the World Junior championship in 1965.
Larry Kaufman, (1947), an American Grandmaster who became the Wolrd Senior Champion in 2008.
Arnaud Hauchard (1971), a French Grandmaster and coach. In 2012, FIDE suspended him for cheating.
Roland Schmaltz (1974), a German Grandmaster who won few blitz titles then decided to live in Australia.
Sofia Gvetadze (1983), a Georgian Women Grandmaster.
Marie Sebag (1986), the first French female Grandmaster and Women Grandmaster.

DEATH

Gustaaf Nietvelt (30.11.1897-1961), a Belgian chess composer and editor.
Samuel Isenegger (02.11.1899-1964), a Swiss chess composer.
Peter Dubinin (30.06.1909), Soviet International Master who was he was joint USSR Correspondence Champion in 1957.

CHESS EVENTS

1967 The 7^th Interzonal Tournament was organized in Tunisia and was arguably the most complicated tournament ever. Fischer withdrew three times because religious reasons caused him to have a tight schedule. He finally decided to go home when he was leading the tournament with 8½/10! Without the American in competition, the Danish Grandmaster Bent Larsen won the tournament extremely convincingly with 15½/21.
2001 15.11 In Leon, The Netherlands and France won the European Team Championships for men and women.

WORLD EVENTS 

1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1945 – Venezuela joins the United Nations.
1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1971 – Intel releases the world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declared independence. Recognized only by Turkey.
1988 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1990 – The Communist People’s Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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