QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Alexander Panchenko (1953-2009), Russian Grandmaster, Honored Coach and the champion of Russia in 1978.
Miguel Llanes Hurtado (1978), Spanish Grandmaster.
Anna-Maria Botsari (1972), Greek Woman Grandmaster who is the strongest female Greek player for nearly two decades.
Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez (1978), Cuban Grandmaster.
S. Dhopade Swapnil (1990), Indian Grandmaster.
Murali Karthikeyan (1999), Indian Grandmaster who was the Indian Champion 2015 and winner the Under-12 World Chess Championship in 2011 and Under-16 World Chess Championship in 2013.

DEATH

Meindert Niemeijer (12.02.1902-1987), Dutch chess composer who was one of the biggest world chess book collectors of his time.

CHESS EVENTS

1977 Women’s Candidates Semi Final in Sofia, Chiburdanidze USSR beat Akhmilovskaya USSR 6½-5½.
1977 Women’s Candidates Semi Final in Berlin, A. Kushnir ISR beat E. Fatalibikova (USSR) 6½-3½.

WORLD EVENTS

1143 King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognises Portugal as a Kingdom.1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.
1864 The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1910 In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.
1927 Sam Warner, Polish-American director, producer, and a screenwriter, co-founded Warner Bros. died (b. 1887)
1955 Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
1988 The Chilean opposition coalition Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt and a general election is called the following year.
2000 Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to the resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
2011 Steve Jobs, American businessman, co-founder of Apple Inc. and Pixar died (b. 1955)

(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY