QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Nikolay Kopaev (1914-11.10.1978), a Soviet Master, a theorist and a composer.
Petr Kiriakov (1975), Russian Grandmaster and a coach who won few Russian Youth Championship titles.
Hedinn Steingrimsson (1975), an Icelandic Grandmaster
Christian Bauer (1977), French Grandmaster was became French Champion in 1996,  2012 and 2015.

DEATH

Emanuel Lasker (b.24.12.1868-1941), a German mathematician and the second World Champion who kept his title to a record of nearly 27 years (1894-1921).
Vugar Gashimov (24.07.1986-2014), an Azerbaijani Grandmaster who was ranked No. 6 in the world in 2009.

CHESS EVENTS

1886 In New York. The first game of the first world chess championship started with a victory of Wilheim Steinitz over Johan Zukertort.
1886 In New York, 1st use of a demonstration board in a world championship match.
2008 11.01 In India, China won the Asian Team Championship 2007.
2009 The nine-year-old Hetul Shah of India became the youngest player to defeat a grandmaster in a tournament game at standard time controls when he beat Grandmaster Nurlan Ibrayev of Kazakhstan at the 7th Parsvnath International Open in New Delhi, India.

WORLD EVENTS

1055 Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire.
1158 Vladislaus II, Duke of Bohemia becomes King of Bohemia.
1879 The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
1908 Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1923 Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
1940 Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet premiered in Leningrad.
1942 Japan declared war against the Netherlands, the same day that Japanese forces invaded the Dutch East Indies (later Indonesia) at Borneo.
1942 World War II: The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur.
1972 East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
2002  The first planeload of al-Qaida prisoners from Afghanistan arrived at a U.S. military detention camp in Guantanamo, Cuba.
2014 Ariel Sharon (b.1928), former Israeli prime minister (2001-2006), died in a hospital near Tel Aviv eight years after a debilitating stroke put him into a coma.

(Source Wikipedia-Timeline)

GAME OF THE DAY