QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS 

Henri Rinck (10-01-1870 – 26-02-1952) French endgame composer, he was one of the founders the classics of the modern study composing.
Nikolay Zubarev (1894-01.1951), a Soviet Master and an International Arbiter, he was one of the founders of Chess code of Soviet qualification system.
Ilya Lvovich Shulman (10-01-1935 – 04-01-2010), a Russian chess composer.
Leonard Katsnelson  (10-01-1936) Russian chess composer.
Walter S. Browne (1949-24.06.2015), an American Grandmaster, coach and writer born in Australia who was six times national champion.
Oleg Romanishin (1952), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who won the European Junior Championship (1973).Espen Backe (10-01-1963), a Norwegian composer.
Michael Wiedenkeller (1963), Luxemburger International Master who was Luxemburger Champion and European Small Nations Champion in 2014.
Alisa Maric (1970) a Serbian Women Grandmaster and International Master and professor. She was among the best female of the 90’s and the Minister of Sport of Serbia( c. 2010).
Mirjana Maric (1970), a Serbian Women Grandmaster, the twin sister of Alisa.
Narayanan Sunilduth Lyna (1998), an Indian Granmaster.

DEATH

Slobodan Matinovic (25.07.1945-2015), a Serbian Grandmaster.

WORLD EVENTS

49 BC Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
1806 Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
1863 The London Underground, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
1920 The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
1985 Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba;
1899 Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo renounced the Treaty of Paris, which annexed the Philippines to the United States.
1917  Buffalo Bill Cody, army scout and Indian fighter, died.
1925 France-Saarland formed.
1928 The Soviet Union ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky.
1943 Russian offensive began against German 6th and 4th Armies near Stalingrad.
1951 UN headquarters opened in Manhattan, NY.
1957 Harold Macmillan became prime minister of Britain, following the resignation of Anthony Eden.
1999 In Kazakstan presidential elections were scheduled. Nazarbayev won another 7-year term in rigged elections tinged with repression.
2002 A CIA report said China, North Korea and Iran will probably have long-range missile capable of reaching the US by 2015.
2005 Ukraine’s Election Commission declared Viktor Yushchenko the winner of the presidential vote.
2007 In Nicaragua, former revolutionary Daniel Ortega took office in a ceremony attended by more than a dozen world leaders.
2008 India’s Tata Motors unveiled the world’s cheapest car, bringing new mobility within the reach of tens of millions of people and nightmares to environmentalists, traffic engineers and safety advocates. The Tata Nano was expected to sell for about $2,500.
2010 New data showed that China has overtaken Germany as the world’s top exporter after December exports jumped 17.7% for their first increase in 14 months.
2019 Venezuela enters a presidential crisis as Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly declare incumbent President Nicolás Maduro “illegitimate”.[6]

(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)