QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Carlo Salvioli (1848-29.01.1930), a Strong Italian master and chess composer who won the Italian championship in 1881.
Isidor Gunsberg (1854-1930), a BritishMaster born in Hungary. was born in Budapest, Hungary who in the late 1880s and early 1890s was one of the top players in the world.
Ernesto Defourny, (1885-27.12.1967), an Italian chess composer.
Samuel Isenegger 1899-15.11.1964), Swiss chess composer.
Ljubomir Ljubojevic (1950), a Serbian Grandmaster living in Spain. In 1983 he was ranked third in the Elo world rating list.
Semen Dvoirys (1958), a Russain Grandmaster living in Israel.
Sofia Polgar (1974), Israeli International Master and Women Grandmaster born in Hungary. She is the sister of Judith and Szuzsa.
Sergey Grigoriants (1983), a Russian Grandmaster.
Davor Palo (1985), a Danish Grandmaster born in Bosnia and Hercegovina who won the Dens championship in 2013.
Elmira Mirzoeva (1981) a Russian Women Grandmaster and journamist born in Azerbaijan.
Al-Sayed, Mohammed (1981), a Qatari Grandmaster.
Olga Iljushina (1981), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Alyona Redko (1983), an Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster.
Evgeny Romanov (1988), a Russian Grandmaster who won the 1998 World U10 Chess Championship.

DEATHS

Theodore Herlin (22.07.1917-1889), French chess composer.
Isaac Leopold Rice (22.02.1850-1915), a U.S. inventor and a chess patron and author. He built the United States Navy’s first submarine.
Umberto Castellari (18.11.1912-1976), Italian composer.

CHESS EVENTS

1964 A new record of 50 teams was registered at the 16^th Olympiad in Tel Aviv. This was the first time all the continents were represented.
1991 Xie Jun CHN beat M. Chiburdanidze USSR 8½-6½ (+4-2=9) in Manila, Philippines. Thus for the first time since the end of WWII, a non-Soviet player became Women’s World Champion. Also, this was the first time a Chinese chess player had won the highest title.
1996 Karpov won the European Rapid Championship in Cap d’Agde, France.
1997 Russia won with 23½ points the 4^th World Team Championship organized by Schach-Organisation in Lucerne, Switzerland.
2008 In Florida, USA, GM Jaan Ehlvest (USA) won the Pan-American Individual Championship.

WORLD EVENTS 

1889 North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1914 World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
1917 The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the “establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people” with the clear understanding “that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities”.
1930 Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1949 The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
1953 The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
1964 King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

(Source: Wikiepdia)