QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Henry Atkins (1872-31.01.1955), British Master who won the British Chess Championship nine times.
Olga Rubtsova Soviet (1909-13.12.1994) Soviet Women Grandmaster who remains the only player, male or female, to become World Champion in both over-the-board and correspondence chess.
Felix Schmidt (07.08.1916-11.08. 1984), Estonian chess International Master, chess writer, and chemist who emigrated to the USA.
Leonard Barden (1929), English Master, columnist and author.  1938.
Vladimir Kostic (1953), Serbian Grandmaster.
Seferjan Narek Seferjan (1974),  Armenian Grandmaster and journalist.
Tania, Sachdev (1986); Indian International Master and Woman Grandmaster.who won the World Girls U20 in 2002.
Anton Demchenko (1987), Russian Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Thomas Wilson Barnes (1825–1874), British Master, one of the leading British masters at the time of Morphy’ s supremacy.
Rudolph Spielmann, (1883-1942), a Viennese professional chess player who has participated in more than 100 tournaments died in Sweden.

CHESS EVENTS

1873 W. Steinitz won the strong tournament of Vienna.
1920 Cuba. Following a letter published by E. Lasker where he stated: “I shall no more be the champion”, JR. Capablanca published a statement regarding the future of the world chess championship. He signed the letter: J.R. Capablanca, Chess Champion of the World.
1957 The FIDE GA approved the Staunton design to be used for the chess pieces.

WORLD EVENTS

1000 The foundation of the Hungarian state by Saint Stephen, celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
1775 The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
1882 Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
1920 The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
1940 In Mexico City, Mexico exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
1960 Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
1968 Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring.
1988 Iran–Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union’s parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
1991 Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of its pre-World War II statehood.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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