QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Bozidar Ivanovic (1946), Montenegro Grandmaster who served as Minister of Sport and Tourism in Montenegro.
Jordi Magem Badals (1967), Spanish Grandmaster who was the Spanish champion in 1990 and second of Shirov for some time.
Aleksandar Indjic, (1995), Serbian Grandmaster who was the Serbian champion in 2014.
Evandro Amorim Barbosa, (1992), Brazilian Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Alexey Troitzky (14.03.1866-1942), Russian chess composer, the founder of the modern art of study composition. He died of starvation during the period of the siege of Leningrad by the German army.
Moshe Czerniak (03.02.1910-1984), Israeli International Master, journalist and author born in Poland. The first champion of Palestine who when World War II broke out decided to take refuge in Argentina for more than 10 years.

CHESS EVENTS

1939 The US team didn’t show up for the Opening of the Olympiad in Buenos Aires because the American players regarded the financial conditions as inadequate (they asked for US$2000 but were only offered US$ 1000).

WORLD EVENTS

1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
1608 The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel
1891 Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
1949 The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
1954 The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1994 Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
1995 Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.

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GAME OF THE DAY