QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Elena Fatalibekova Russian Women Grandmaster who is a three-time winner of the Women’s World Senior Chess Championship.
Tatiana Shumiakina (1965), Russia Women Grandmaster.
Branko Tadic (1973), Serbian Grandmaster.
Bartlomiej Macieja (1977), Polish Grandmaster and coach. European Champion 2002 and twice Polish Champion.

DEATHS

Ludwig Collijn (20.11.1878-1939) chairman of the Swedish Chess Federation from 1917 to 1939  and promoter of the Scandinavian defence.
Kenneth Harkness (1896-1972), American International Arbiter and writer. He introduced the Harkness rating system, which was a precursor to the Elo rating system and one method of tiebreaks in Swiss systems. Harkness is in the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.
Lev Aronin (20.07.1920-1982), Soviet International Master who, according Bronstein, was deserving the title of Grandmaster.
Federico Alliney (03.09.1920-1991), Italian chess composer.

CHESS EVENTS

1964 Three players tied for first at the 5^th Women’s Candidates Tournament in Sukhumi, USSR. Kushnir (USSR), Lazarevic (YUG) and Zatulovskaya (USSR) scored 12½./17. A. Kushnir later won the play-off in Moscow.
2015 In Baku, Azerbaijan, Sergey Karjakin (RUS) won both tie-break blitz games against Peter Svidler (RUS)  and became the winner of the 2015 World Cup.

WORLD EVENTS

1669 Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator died (b. 1606)
1824 Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1830 The Provisional Government of Belgium secedes from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
1853 The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
1957 Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1965 Pope Paul VI arrives in New York City, the first Pope to visit the Americas.
1966 Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
2006 Wikileaks is launched by Julian Assange.