QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Miron James Hazeltime (1824-24.02.1907),  an American journalist and chess composer.
Paul Saladin Leonhardt (1877-14.12.1934), a German Master who died of a heart attack during a game of chess.
Bukhuty Gurgenidze (1933-24.05.2008), a Georgian Grandmaster who won 12 Georgian championships.
Jon Arnason (1960), an Icelandic Grandmaster who was three-time the national champion.
George Gabriel Grigore (1970), a Romanian Grandmaster who played two Olympiads.

DEATHS

Giancarlo dal Verme (11.05.1908-1985), an Italian player and FIDE officer who composed the FIDE anthem in 1952.
Volf Bergraser (04.01.1904-1986), a French Correspondence Grandmaster (1981) and strong OTB player. A doctor. He won the French chess championship (OTB) in 1957 and 1966.
Igor Platonov (18.01.1934-1994), a Soviet Grandmaster (not FIDE) and coach. He was murdered in his Kiev apartment by two thieves.

WORLD EVENTS

1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1940 Walt Disney’s animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York’s Broadway Theatre.
1950 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
1989 Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
2015 A set of coordinated terror attacks in Paris, France including multiple shootings, explosions, and a hostage crisis in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and the 11th arrondissement of Paris kill 130 people, seven attackers, and injured 368 others, with at least 80 critically wounded.

GAME OF THE DAY