QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Jan Willem te Kolste (1874-31.01.1936), Dutch Master who won the unofficial Dutch championship in 1907.
Luis Palau (1896-08.02.1971), Argentine International Master who represented his country in the firsts Olympiads.
William Winter (1898-18.12.1955), British Master who won the British championship in 1935 and 1936. Winter has the distinction of being the only British Champion to have served time in prison (for his political activities).
Julius Perlis (19.01.1880-1913), Strong Austrian Master who died from exposure in a mountaineering accident in the Alps.
Eduard Meduna (1950) Czech Grandmaster who won twice the Czech championship.
Arkadi Vul (1953), Russian Grandmaster.
Jacob Meister (1955), German Grandmaster born in Russia.
Dmitry Gurevich (1956), American Grandmaster and coach born in Russia.
Turjhan Yilmaz (1958) Turkish International Master who won 5 titles of Turkish Champion.
Predrag Nikolic (1960), Bosnian Grandmaster who is living in the Netherlands and became the 2015 World Senior Champion.
Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska (1971), German International Master and Woman Grandmaster born in Georgia who won two titles of World Girls Champion in 1989 and 1990.
Tea Lanchava (1974), Dutch International Master and Woman Grandmaster born in Georgia. She was the Dutch Woman Champion in 2012.

DEATHS

Jules Arnous de Riviere  (04.05.1830-1905) French strong player best known for playing many games in Paris with Paul Morphy.
Carl Carls (16.09.1880-1958). German International Master who represented Germany in few Olympiads.

CHESS EVENTS

1928 11.09 From Lausanne, Switzerland, Alekhine answered to Bogoljubov: “…By these lines I’m accepting in principle your challenge (the first that I have received since I won the title) and I don’t see any problem with playing this match in 1929. It is clear that the conditions of this match will be set in accordance with the Agreement made in London in 1922, which both of us signed. So, the venue of the match and the date of our meeting will depend on your guarantees or those ones from the organizer”.

WORLD EVENTS

1565 – Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.
1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
1789 – Alexander Hamilton is appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.
1944 – World War II: The Western Allied invasion of Germany begins near the city of Aachen.
1944 – World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
1945 – Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer and manager was born.
1950 – Korean War: President Harry S. Truman approved military operations north of the 38^th parallel.
1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. A total of 2,996 people were killed.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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