In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

Fan posing with 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks World Series Championship Trophy

In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

The winner of the series advances to play the winner of the National League Championship Series in baseball's championship, the World Series.

Between 1957 and 1980 Granaglia won a record 13 World Championships, 12 European Championship titles, and 46 Italian National Championships.

However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

After sweeping Minnesota in the American League Championship Series, Baltimore was shocked by losing to the New York Mets in a five-game World Series.

The IIHF World U20 Championship typically begins on 26 December, while the Spengler Cup also begins on 26 December in Davos, Switzerland ; the Spengler Cup competition includes HC Davos, Team Canada, and other top European Hockey teams.

Jack Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name ( cf Surtees, Hill and Fittipaldi Automotive ).

In addition to the World Championship, there are the Women's World Championship, the Junior World Championship, the World Senior Championship, the Correspondence Chess World Championship, the World Computer Chess Championship, and Blitz and Rapid World Championships.

In the conferences during World War II, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin openly requested the concession of Soviet military bases on the Straits, even though Turkey was not involved in the war.

pitching Triple Crown ( baseball ) | Triple Crown in 1940, key member of the 1948 World Series Championship team, the Indians all time leader in wins and stikeouts, and an MLB Hall of Fame r.

In 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr .' s death, Alston was asked to create another mural for the hospital to be placed in a pavilion named after the assassinated civil rights leader titled Man Emerging from the Darkness of Poverty and Ignorance into the Light of a Better World ".

Maritime conservatism since the Second World War has been very much part of the Red Tory tradition, key influences being former Premier of Nova Scotia and federal Progressive Conservative Party leader Robert Stanfield and New Brunswick Tory strategist Dalton Camp.

* Chris Harman, A People's History of the World ( Marxist view of history according to a leader of the International Socialist Tendency )

After World War II and until 1975, the U. S. Navy defined a " frigate " as a type of surface warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser ; in other navies, such a ship generally was referred to as a destroyer leader — hence the U. S. Navy's use of " DL " for " frigate " prior to 1975 — while " frigates " in other navies were smaller than destroyers and more like what the U. S. Navy termed a " destroyer escort ", " ocean escort ", or " DE ".

In 1951, in Taiwan, the Chinese Muslim Kuomintang General Bai Chongxi made a speech broadcast on radio to the entire Muslim world calling for a war against Russia, claiming that the " imperialist ogre " leader Stalin was engineering World War III, and Bai also called upon Muslims to avoid the Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru, accusing him of being blind to Soviet imperialism.

* 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.

* 1931 – Lawrie Dring, English scout leader, founded World Federation of Independent Scouts ( d. 2012 )

* 1946 – Ion Antonescu, " Conducator " ( leader ) of Romania during World War II, is executed.

* 1956 – Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.

* 1942 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin issues Order No. 227 in response to alarming German advances into the Soviet Union.

Karl Bernhardovic Radek () ( 31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939 ) was a socialist active in the Polish and German movements before World War I and an international Communist leader after the Russian Revolution.

For decades, between World War II and the 1970s he was the leader of Partito Sardo d ' Azione ( PSdAz ), Sardinian autonomist party claiming for detachment from Italy and fiercely contesting the presence of NATO military bases in Sardinia.

* 1919 – The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.

* 1940 – World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece.

* 1943 – World War II: War in the Pacific – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan ( see Cairo Conference )

* 1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference – U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.

* 1941 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule.

It is not necessary for them to be a party leader ; David Lloyd George was leader of no party as prime minister during World War I, and neither was Ramsay MacDonald from 1931 to 1935.

Leif Larsen | Leif " Shetland " Larsen, Norwegian leader of the Shetland Bus operations in World War II, the most highly decorated Allies of World War II | allied naval officer of the war.

The overall leader in each event wears the white points leaders jersey at each race, with the overall winner at the end of the season keeping the jersey and wearing it at the World Championships.

The 1991 feature film Tous les matins du monde ( All the Mornings of the World ) by Alain Corneau, based on the lives of Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe and Marin Marais, prominently featured these composers ' music for the viola da gamba and brought viol music to new audiences.

Fabien Alain Barthez ( ; born 28 June 1971 in Lavelanet ) is a former French footballer goalkeeper who won honours with Manchester United and the French national team, with whom he won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000 and reached the final of the 2006 World Cup.

All current ( with the exception of Russian driver Vitaly Petrov ) and many former Formula One drivers grew up racing karts, most prominent among them, World Champions Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.

Hill became the fourth driver in nine years to win the World Drivers ' Championship and not drive for Williams the following season following in the footsteps of Nelson Piquet ( WDC-drove for Lotus ), Nigel Mansell ( WDC-1993 competed in the US based Champ Car World Series instead of F1 ) and Alain Prost ( 1993 WDC-Retired ).

In a precedent-setting case brought by Alain and his sister, SNCF, the national railway of France, was ordered on June 6, 2006, to pay almost $ 80, 000 in reparations for transporting members of their family to the Drancy deportation camp during World War II.

In 2001, SNCF was sued by the father of MEP Alain Lipietz because of the railroad ’ s role in transporting members of his family to the Drancy internment camp during World War II.

* Alain Menu, World Touring Car Championship driver, lives in Abingdon

When he first displayed this ability in the 1996 World Championship against the Canadian player Alain Robidoux, Robidoux accused him of disrespect.

* Audio: Alain de Botton in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion show The Forum

* Alain Giletti, ( born on 9 November 1939 ), ice skater, 10 times French champion, 5 times European champion, 4 times vice-champion of Europe and 1 time World champion ( 1960 ).

The anonymous French actress ( Emmanuelle Riva ) who is the main character in the film Hiroshima mon amour by Alain Resnais is from Nevers, and the film features many flashbacks to her youth there during World War II.

But his most popular book is probably Tous les matins du monde ( All the Mornings in the World ), about 17th-century viola de gamba player Marin Marais and his teacher, Sainte-Colombe, which was adapted for the screen in 1991, by director Alain Corneau.

As of November 2011 three times World Drivers ' Champion Alain Prost from France remains the only driver to win the AGP in both World Championship and domestic formats winning the Australian Drivers ' Championship 1982 race before winning in Adelaide in 1986 and 1988.

In 2001, Michael Schumacher equalled Alain Prost's then record 51 Grand Prix wins at the Hungaroring, in the drive which also secured his 4th World Title which also matched Prost's career tally.

In, the McLaren team, with twice World Champion Alain Prost and the sensationally fast Ayrton Senna dominated the season, winning 15 of the 16 rounds.

World Champion Michael Schumacher, who made his debut at Spa in 1991 and won his first F1 race there in 1992, won his 52nd Grand Prix at Spa in 2001, surpassing Alain Prost's all-time record of 51 wins.

His first signings were Karl-Heinz Forster and Alain Giresse, who were bought after the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

He also reached the quarter-finals on his debut at the Crucible of the World Championship, beating Alain Robidoux and Mark King before losing to Ken Doherty.

Alain Robidoux ( born July 25, 1960, in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada ) is a Canadian snooker player ; he played on the World Snooker tour from 1988 to 2005 and continues to play in events in Canada.

In 2007 and 2008 he drives for the Renault H & C Classic Team, e. g. presents and drives Alain Prost's F1 car from 1983 at World Series by Renault events.

In June 2012, Swiss racing driver Alain Menu competed in the World Touring Car Championship Race of Portugal with a Vaillante-themed livery.

* ( 1991 ) Tous les matins du monde ( All the Mornings of the World ) by Alain Corneau