QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Captain William Evans ((1790 – 03.08.1872), a Welsh Inventor and a chess player, the author of the most popular Evans Gambit of the XIX century.
Yakov Rokhlin (1905-1997), a Russian master, a chess organizer, the Honored Coach of the USSR, International Master of correspondence chess, a journalist, and author.
Philip Walsingham Sergeant (1872-20.10.1952), a British author of interesting works like ‘A Century of British Chess’ (1934) and ‘Championship Chess’ (1938).
Fred Reinfeld, (1910-29.05.1964), an American chess writer from New York. Twice was the champion of New York State. Autor of more than 100 chess books.
Lodewijk Prins (1913-11.11.1999), a Dutch Honorary Grandmaster, International Arbiter and author.
Ann Lim Kok, Ann (1920-2003), a Singapore player, FIDE General Secretary and International Arbiter.
Alexander Nikitin (1935), International Master, a theorist, Honored Coach of the USSR. Between 1975-1989, he worked with Kasparov then Bacrot. The author of several books on openings and on his relations with Kasparov.
Laszlo Vadasz (1948-03.01.2005), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Ulf Andersson (1951), a Swedish Grandmaster who was at his peak world number four.
Jeroen Piket (1969), a Dutch Grandmaster who won 4 Dutch national titles before to retire in Monaco.
Handszar Odeev (1972), a Turkmenistan Grandmaster.
Sergey Erenburg (1983), an American Grandmaster born in Russian who became Israeli Champion in 2003.
Avetik Grigoryan (1989), an Armenian Grandmaster who won 3 titles of Armenian Youth Championship.
Guo Qi , CHN (1995), a Chinese Woman Grandmaster who was Girl’s Junior Champion in 2012.
Ulvi Bajarani (1995), an Azeri Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1980 USSR won the 7^th European Team Championship in Skara, Sweden.

WORLD EVENTS 

1695 Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan and Caliph of Islam in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
1880 Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow
1944 World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
1948 1st tape recorder sold.
1967 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
1973 The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War.
1996 Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
2010 The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.

(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)

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