QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTH

Aug 1, 1843: Emil Schallopp (1843)German chess player and author.

Karl Jesperson (1848 – 07-08-1914), Danish composer who won few prizes.
Barry Barnes (1937), English composer, International Master and writer England.
Wolfgang Alexander Bruder (1942), German composer.
Vadim Milov (1972) Swiss Grandmaster born in Russia who moved to Switzerland after a stay of 4 years in Israel. He won the 2015 Swiss championship.
Renier Vazquez Igarza, (1979) Cuban-born Spanish Grandmaster.
Liviu- Dieter Nisipeanu (1976)  German Grandmaster born in Romania who won the European individual title in 2005.
Shoker, Samy, EGY (1987), Egyptian Grandmaster who is also living in Paris
Molner Mackenzie (1988), US Grandmaster and coach.

DEATHS

Ehrhardt Post (23.09.1981-1947), German player who won two German championships in 1921 and 1922.died in Berlin, Germany.

CHESS EVENTS

1928 The FIDE GA accepted Brazil and Mexico as full members. Havana chess club was temporarily accepted as a full member until the Cuban Chess Federation will apply.
1974 The USSR won the World Student Team Championship in Teesside, England.
1993 Boris Gelfand (BLR) won the (last) Interzonal held at Biel, Switzerland.
2000 The first meeting of the Medical Commission in Lausanne chaired by Dr. S. Press USA took place.

WORLD EVENTS

527 – Justinian I became the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.
1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.
1498 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1800 The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1876 Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1914 The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
1927 The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.
1960 Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
1961 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation’s first centralized military espionage organization.
1964 The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1974 Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the “Green Line”, dividing Cyprus into two zones.
1981 MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles.
(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY