QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Karl Behting (1867-1943) a Latvian chess master and composer of studies.
Brian Harley (1883-18.05.1955), a British chess composer. Isaias Pleci (1900-27.12.1974), an Argentina International Master who was the Argentine Champion in 1929 to 1930.
Antonio Arguelles Ferrer (1901-31.01-2000), a Spanish composer and International Master.
Oct 27, 1908: James Aitken (1908-03.12.1983), a Scottish Master who won 10 times the Scottish championship.
Miroslav Filip (1928-27.04.2009), a Czech Grandmaster who won the Czechoslovak championship three times.
Dibyendu Barua (1966), Indian Grandmaster who was the second Indian player to get the GM title.
Andrei Shchekachev (1972), French grandmaster born in Russia.
Nazí Nodarovna Paikidze (1993), Georgian  international Master and Woman Grandmaster who won the 2016 U.S. women’s championship.

DEATHS

Alexander Deschapelles (07.03 1780- 1847), French chess player who, between the death of Philidor and the arrival of Louis de la Bourdonnais, was probably the strongest player in the world
Lucius Endzelins (21.05.1909-1981), Australian the Correspondence Grandmaster born in Australian who tied for 2nd place in the 2nd World Correspondence Championship.

CHESS EVENTS

1986 Maya Chiburdanidze (USSR) retained her title of Women’s World Champion in Borjomi, USSR by beating E. Akhmilovskaya (USSR) 8½-5½.
1997 V. Pina (ANG) became African Junior Champion in Eket, Nigeria.
2013 In Rhodes, the G-Team of Novy Bor won the European Club Cup. The team of Monte-Carlo won the European Women’s Club Cup.

WORLD EVENTS

1275  Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1682  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1782  Niccolò Paganini, an Italian violinist, and composer was born (d. 1840)
1810 The United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1858  Theodore Roosevelt, an American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate was born (d. 1919)
1904 The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in the world.
1924 The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1971 The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1991 Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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