QUOTE OF THE DAY

Maurice Fox (1868-25.06.1988), a Canadian Master born in Ukraine who won the Canadian championship 8 times.
Henry Wald Bettmann (1868 – 05-12-1935), an American composer.
Drazeb Marovic (1938), a Croatian grandmaster,  trainer, journalist, and writer.
Lazar Borisovitch Zalkind (1886-25-06-1945) a Russian chess composer.
Tatania Vasilevich (1977), a Ukrainian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won three times the Ukrainian Women’s Championship.
Nadezhda Kosintseva (1985), a Russian Grandmaster and Women Grandmaster who is living in the USA after she married the German GM Leonid Kritz.
Milos Perunovic (1984), a Serbian Grandmaster who was Serbian Champion in 2005 and 2007.
Volha Herasimovich (1985), a Belarus Woman Grandmaster
David Berczes (1990), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Yakov Yuhtman (1935-25.01.1985) an American born-Soviet talented chess player, who was consider being the second Tal with his bright talent.

DEATHS

Fritz Carl Englund, (22.11.1871-1933), Swedish Master. His name is associated with the opening 1. d4 e5 tested for the first time in 1932.
George Hume  (16-12-1862-1936), a British composer.

CHESS EVENT

E. Lasker (+10=5-2) defeated W. Steinitz, 12.5-4.5 in Moscow to win the World Chess Championship.

WORLD EVENTS

1690 Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany
1814 Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
1907 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1911 Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition lands on the Ross Ice Shelf.
1914 Henry Ford introduces an assembly line for Model T.
1945 In Greece, Communists and the British agree to a cease-fire in the struggle to control Athens
1950 The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
1953 Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
1972 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
2004 The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called “five cross flag”, is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2011 Former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees his country to Saudi Arabia.

(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)

GAME OF THE DAY