QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Amadeus Ernst Geijerstam (1852-18.10.1890), a Swedish chess composer.
Leon Loewenton (1889-23.9.1963), Romanian chess composer.
Slavoljub Marjanovic (1955), Serbian Grandmaster who was Yugoslav Champion in 1985.
Karen Movsziszian (1963), an Armenian Grandmaster who was Armenian Champion in 1981 and is now living in Spain.
Petr Haba (1965), a Czech Grandmaster who was Czech Champion in 1985, 1996, and 2002.
Vincenzo Castaldi (15.05.1916-1970), Italian International Master who won the Italian Chess Championship in 1936, 1937, 1947 (jointly), 1948, 1952 (jointly), 1953, and 1959.
Aleksandar Colovic (1976) a Macedonian Grandmaster.
Robert Cvek (1979), Czech Grandmaster who participated at the 2006 Olympiad.
Simutowe (1982),  the first Zambian Grandmaster.
Zviad Izoria (1984), Georgian Grandmaster who won twice the European Junior Championships.
Roberto Mogranzini, (1983), an Italian Grandmaster.
Artyom Timofeev (1984), a Russian Grandmaster who won the European Under-18 Championship in Ioan-Cristian Chirila (1991), a Romanian Grandmaster.
Vladislav Kovalev (1994), a Belarus Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Weaver Warren Adams(28.04.1901-1963), an American chess master, author and chess opening theoretician who won the U.S. Open Chess Championship in 1948.
Joel Fridlizius (31.12.1869-1963), a Swedish Master who beat A. Alekhine in a game in 1912.

CHESS EVENTS

1975 J. Nunn ENG became the 4^th European Junior Champion, in Groningen, Netherlands.

WORLD EVENTS

1355 Charles I of Bohemia is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy as King of Italy in Milan.
1412 Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint was born (d. 1431).
1449 Constantine XI is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mystras.
1537 Alessandro de’ Medici (b.1510), Italian monarch of Florence, was assassinated by his cousin Lorenzino.
1838 Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1852  Louis Braille (43) died of tuberculosis in France.
1912 New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
1919 The 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., at age 60.
1930 The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
1946 Ho Chi Minh won North Vietnamese elections.
1993 Jan 6, Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie died in Englewood

(Source: Wikipedia, Timeline.wp)

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