QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Ludwig Rellstab (1904-14.02.18983), a Germany Master who He won an individual gold medal at Helsinki Olympiad 1952.
Carlos Repetto Torre (1905-19.03.1978), The first Mexican Grandmaster who was among the top players in the 1920’s but has his chess career cut short because of mental illness.
Hernandes, Roman, CUB, b-day 23.11.1949
Theodorus Kok 1906-28.05.2009), a Dutch chess composer.
Viacheslav Eingorn (1956), a Ukrainian Grandmaster and Senior FIDE Trainer.
Slim Belkhodja (1962), Tunisian Grandmaster who won the Individual Arab championship in 2001.
Aljosa Grosar (1967), a Slovenian International Arbiter and a FIDE Trainer who won 3 titles of national champion.
Karsten Mueller (1970), a German Grandmaster specialized in endgames who earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Hamburg.
Ivan Ivanisevic (1977), a Serbia Grandmaster who won the Serbian Chess Championship in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012.

DEATHS

Henry D’Oyly Bernard (02.03.1878-1954) , British chess composer, died in Monaco.

CHESS EVENTS

1966. The first day of the first international computer match between USSR and USA (3-1).

WORLD EVENTS

1889 The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
1936 Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
1940 World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1946 French naval bombardment of Hai Phong, Vietnam, kills thousands of civilians. This was to lead to the First Indochina War.
1971 Representatives of the People’s Republic of China attend the United Nations, including the United Nations Security Council, for the first time.
1976 Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
1992 The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.
2003 Rose Revolution: Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections.
2005 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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