QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Francois Le Lionnais was born in Paris, France. (1901-13.03.1984), French chemical engineer, mathematician, player and writer.
Carl Walbrodt (28.11.1871-1902), German Master who died from  tuberculosis at the age of 30.
Walter Jorgensen, (1916-17.10.1989), Danish composer.
Frederick Hamilton Russell (1867-1941), English magnate and BCF president who donated the Hamilton–Russell Cup as a prize for the 1st Olympiad (London 1927).
Victor Palciauskas (1941), American Correspondence Grandmaster born in Lithuania who was the tenth ICCF World Champion, 1978–84.
Rongguang Ye (1963), Chinese Grandmaster living in the Netherlands who in 1990, became the first ever Chinese player to gain the Grandmaster title.
David Norwood (1968), Andorran-English Grandmaster, author and chess philanthropist.
Gerhard Schebler (1969) was born, German Grandmaster.
Sergey Kalygin, 1970), Russian Grandmaster.
Aleksandra Dimitrijevic (1986), Bosnian Woman Grandmaster who is married with B. Jobova.
Milan Pacher (1990),  Slovakian Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Carl Walbrodt (28.11.1871-1902), German Master who died from  tuberculosis at the age of 30.
Erkki Wirtanen (11.04.1911-1979), Finish composer.
Alberic O’Kelly de Galway Belgium (17.05.1911-1980), Grandmaster and Correspondence Grandmaster who became the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess (1959–1962).

CHESS EVENTS

1935 In the Netherlands, the World Championship Match opened between Alexander Alekhine and Max Euwe. For the first time, the players could use the assistance of seconds.
2010 In Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, the team of Ukraine won the 39th Chess Olympiad ahead of Russia and Israel, in the Women ‘s championship, Russia won ahead of China and Georgia.
2018 Arkady Dvorkovich became the new FIDE President. He won by 103 votes to 78 against George Makropoulos, after Nigel Short withdrew his candidacy at the last minute

WORLD EVENTS
52 BC Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege andBattle of Alesia.
1789 George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
1929 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, “Land of the South Slavs”.
1932 Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1935 Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
1952 The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world’s third nuclear power.
1990 German reunification: The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany.

(Source: Wikipedia)