QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Erik Lundin (1904-05.12.1988), a Swedish Honorary Grandmaster who won few Swedish and Nordic Championships.
Leopold Mitrofanov (1935-26.11.1992), a Russian chess composer.
Aleksander Berelovich (1967), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was the national champion in 2001.
Eran Liss (1975), an Israeli Grandmaster who was Israeli Champion in 1998.
Shadi Paridar (1986), an Iranian Woman Grandmaster who won the Asian Under-16 Girls’ Championship in 2002.
Deysi T. Cori (1993), a Peruvian Woman Grandmaster who is a twice American Continental Women’s Champion and under 20 Girls’ World Championship in 2011.

DEATH

Vladimir Nabokov 22.04.1899-02.07.1977), a Russian-American novelist and chess amateur.
Georgi Tringov died, Bulgaria.(07.03.1937–2 July 2000), a Bulgarian Grandmaster who won the 1963 Bulgarian Championship in 1963,

WORLD EVENTS

311 St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1850 Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus
1881 US President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield died 79 days later
1900 First flight LZ-1, of a dirigible airship designed by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin,
1966 1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll.
1976 Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam.
1985 Andrei Gromyko appointed the president of USSR.
1990 Panic in a tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death.

GAME OF THE DAY