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October 9
October 9, 2016
QUOTE OF THE DAY
BIRTHS
William Lewis (1787-1870), English player and author.
Jeremy Gaige (1927-19.02.1911), American chess archivist and journalist who is known for his work collecting chess data and publishing tournament results and basic biographical data on chess players.
Wesley So (1993), American Grandmaster born in Manila. A member of the top 10 best world player, became the youngest player to pass 2600 Elo rating in October 2008, breaking the record previously held by Magnus Carlsen.
DEATHS
Gyula Neukomm (22.04.1892-1957), Hungarian chess composer who published 750 problems.
Milan Vidmar (22-06.1865-1962) Slovene Grandmaster, electrical engineer, philosopher, and writer.
CHESS EVENTS
1972 FIDE awarded the first titles of International Grandmasters- Composers to: Mansfield ENG, Comins ENG, Visserman NED, Eeltje, NED, Kasparian USSR, Genrikh USSR and Loshinsky, USSR.
2002 Viswanathan Anand won the 2nd World Cup held in Hydrabad, India.
WORLD EVENTS
1708 Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
1760 Seven Years’ War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
1790 An earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme) causing severe damage and a tsunami in theMediterranean Sea. Three-thousand people were killed.
1831 Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece is assassinated.
1942 Statute of Westminster 1931 formalises Australian autonomy.1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.
1967 Che Guevara, Argentinian physician and guerrilla leader died (b. 1928)
1970 The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
1978 Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter, and actor died (b. 1929)
1981 Abolition of capital punishment in France.
(Source: Wikipedia)
GAME OF THE DAY
