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The 44th Chess Olympiad was an international team chess event organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in Chennai, India, in 2022. This was the first Chess Olympiad to take place in India. The main venue was the Four Points by Sheraton convention centre at Mahabalipuram. There were 937 participants in the open tournament and 800 in the women's event. Teams represented 186 nations in the open section and 160 in the women's. Both sections set team participation records. Uzbekistan won the gold medal in the open event, while Ukraine claimed gold in the women's event. English player David Howell had the highest performance for an individual player in the open event with a performance rating of 2898, scoring 7½ out of a possible 8 points. Polish player Oliwia Kiołbasa had the highest individual performance in the women's event with a performance rating of 2565, with 9½ out of a possible 11 points. The 93rd FIDE Congress took place during the Olympiad. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that during the late 20th century, residents of the Hotel Chelsea (pictured) could give the owner paintings instead of paying rent?
- ... that insects not only destroyed the personal plant collection of John Hunter Thomas, but also bear his name?
- ... that several dozen deported families spread across 2,000 kilometers (1,200 mi) from the swamps of Western Siberia to the rivers of Eastern Siberia and created a new language?
- ... that with only three of the six guns in his P-51 Mustang working during a dogfight, Claude J. Crenshaw managed to shoot down four enemy aircraft?
- ... that after signing the Camp David Accords in 1978, Prime Minister Menachem Begin ended a speech with a desire to sing the peace song "Hevenu shalom aleichem" with the people of Israel?
- ... that scientists traveled thousands of miles to observe the solar eclipse of September 10, 1923, from Santa Catalina Island, but saw only clouds?
- ... that until 1985, CBS programs on a TV station in Sitka, Alaska, were videotaped in Seattle and aired on a two-week delay?
- ... that Julia Allison has been described as one of the first influencers?
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- In motorsport, Kalle Rovanperä (pictured) and Jonne Halttunen win the World Rally Championship.
- A coal mine fire in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan, kills 46 people.
- Hurricane Otis makes landfall near Acapulco, Mexico, leaving at least 48 people dead.
- In the United States, 18 people are killed in a mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine.
On this day
- 619 – Emperor Gaozu allowed the assassination of a khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate by Eastern Turkic rivals, one of the earliest events in the Tang campaigns against the Western Turks.
- 1932 – The Australian military began a "war against emus" (man with dead emu pictured), flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia.
- 1943 – World War II: A U.S. Navy task force turned away an Imperial Japanese Navy fleet at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, thus protecting the landings at Cape Torokina.
- 1960 – In the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, publisher Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity for the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence.
- 2007 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the allegedly corrupt government of president Mikheil Saakashvili.
- Bettisia Gozzadini (d. 1261)
- Edward Mitchell Bannister (b. 1828)
- Hélène de Pourtalès (d. 1945)
- Charmaine Dragun (d. 2007)
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The brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) is a bird of the pelican family, the smallest of the eight recognized pelican species. It is found on the Atlantic coast of the Americas, from New Jersey to the mouth of the Amazon River, and along the Pacific coast from British Columbia to northern Chile, including the Galapagos Islands. There are five recognized subspecies; the nominate subspecies in its breeding plumage has a white head with a yellowish wash on the crown. The nape and neck are dark maroon to brown. The brown pelican mainly feeds on fish, but occasionally eats amphibians, crustaceans, and the eggs and nestlings of birds. It nests in colonies in secluded areas, often on islands, vegetated land among sand dunes, thickets of shrubs and trees, and mangroves. It is recognized as the national bird of Saint Martin, Barbados, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, and the official state bird of the U.S. state of Louisiana. This brown pelican in flight was photographed at Bodega Bay, California. Photograph credit: Frank Schulenburg
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