QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Josef Noa (1856-01.06.1903), a Hungarian Master and a judge by profession.
Axel Akerblom (1904-05.06.1980), a Swedish International Judge for chess composition who composed more than 5,000 problems in 2 or 3 moves.
Filip Bondarenko (1905-08.02.1993), an Ukrainian player and chess composer.
Kveta Eretova (1926), a Czech Women Grandmaster who won 10 titles of Czech Women’s Champion.
Dashzegve Sharavdorj (1974), a Mongolian Grandmaster.
Petr Tishin (1976), Russian Grandmaster.
Joanna Dworakowska (1978), a Polish International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won the Polish women’s championship three times.
Edmund Edmondson (13.08.1920-1982) an American amateur who was the USCF president and manager of R. Fischer for few years.
Alexander Kovchan (1983), an Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Maxime Vachier – Lagrave (1990), a French Grandmaster who won the World U20 Championship and was the second world best-ranked player in 2016.
Dvirnyy, Danyyil (1990), an Italian Grandmaster who was Italian Champion in 2013.

CHESS EVENTS

2003 Russia won the European Team Championship organized in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Israel won its first ever silver medal in a team competition. Armenia won the Women Championship.
2011  The FIDE Board approved the new memberships of Swaziland Chess Federation, Comorian Islands Chess Federation, and Guam Chess Federation.
2012 21.10 In Mar del Plata Argentina, Julio Granda Zuniga won the 7th Continental Championship of America.

WORLD EVENTS

1097 First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.
1520 Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain.
1879 Thomas Edison invents a workable electric light bulb at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. which was tested the next day and lasted 13.5 hours.
1944 World War II: The first kamikaze attack. A Japanese fighter plane carrying a 200-kilogram (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
1944 World War II: Battle of Aachen: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.
1945 Women’s suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.
1981 Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.
1983 The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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