QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Adolf Anderssen (1818 – 13.03. 1879), a German Master who was considered as the world’s leading chess player for much of the 1850s and 1860s.
Folke Rogard 1899-11.06.1973), was born in Stockholm, Sweden. a Swedish diplomat and chess amateur who became the second president of FIDE.
Johannes Hendrikus(Hein)Donner 1927-27.11.1988), a Dutch Grandmaster and writer who won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and 1958.
Alvaro Pereira F.P. (1954), a Portuguese Correspondence Grandmaster.
Stanislav Novikov (1985), a Russian Grandmaster.

WORLD EVENTS

1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England.
1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1919 – The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time.
1964 – Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
1975 – The Comoros declares independence from France.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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