QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Mikhail Chigorin (1850-25.01.1908), a strong Russia Master who challenged the world champion Steinitz for a match with the World Championship at stake, but he lost 10½–6½.
Borislav Ivkov (1933) a Serbian Grandmaster who was the first World Junior Champion in 1951.
Leonid Stein (1934 – 04.07.1973), a Soviet  Grandmaster from Ukraine who won three USSR Chess Championships.
Dragoljub Ciric (1935-17.08. 2014), a Serbian Grandmaster.
Hanna Erenska – Radzewska (1946) a Polish chess Woman Grandmaster who won  5 times the Women’s Polish Championship.
Mikhail Rytshagov (1967), Estonian Grandmaster and Senior FIDE Trainer.
Pablo Zarnicki (1972), Argentine GM who won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1992.
Andjelija Stojanovic (1987), Serbian Woman Grandmaster.
Anna Rudolf (1987) a Hungarian International Master and Woman Grandmaster and chess journalist who was three times the Women’s Hungarian Champion.

DEATHS

Gavril Veresov (28.07.1912-1979), Soviet International Master who is known for the work in the following variation ECO‎: ‎D01 Moves‎: ‎1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bg5.
Hermann Pilnik (08.01.1914-1981) , a German-Argentine Grandmaster who won the Argentine Championships in 1942, 1945 and 1958.
Anthony Miles (23.04.1955-2001), an English Grandmaster who won the World U20 in 1974. The first Englishman to earn the Grandmaster title.
Dragutin Sahovic (08.08.1940-2005), a Serbian Grandmaster who with Aleksandar Matanovic founded the ECO codes for chess openings.

CHESS EVENTS

1934 The World Championship Match between A. Alekhine FRA and E. Bogoljubow GER opened in Karlsruhe, Germany. The rules were 30 games and the first one with 6 wins will be the World Champion.
1982 Chess Federations of Palestine, Fiji, Bahrain, Yemen and Botswana were admitted to full membership. The Federations of Mauritania, Paraguay and Uruguay were reinstated as full members.

WORLD EVENTS

1793 Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1892 William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
1893 The treaty of the Durand Line delineating the border between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan is signed by Sir Mortimer Durand, a British diplomat in British India.
1918 Austria becomes a republic.
1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
1942 World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal. The battle lasts for three days and ends with an American victory.
1956 Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
1968 Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations.
1982 USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
1990 Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1996 A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.
2001 In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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