QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS 

Otto B. Wurzburg (1875- 19-10-1951) American composer who composed 1400 chess problems.
Boris Savchenko (1986), a Russian Grandmaster who was a silver medalist at the 2015 European Blitz Championship
Elmira Karnaukhova (1985), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Lelys Stanley Martinez Duany (1985), a Cuban Grandmaster.
Shanglei Lu (1995), a Chinese Grandmaster who became the 2014 World Junior Champion.

DEATH

Paul Charles Morphy (22.06. 1837 – 1884), an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion.

CHESS EVENTS

1965 Candidates Semi-Final in Riga, Boris Spassky USSR – Efim Geller USSR ended 5½-2½.
1965 Candidates Quarterfinal in Bled, Mikhail Tal USSR-Lajos Portisch HUN ended 5½-2½.
1965 Candidates Quarterfinal in Bled, Bent Larsen DEN-Boris Ivkov YUG ended 5½-2½.
WORLD EVENTS

1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1913 – The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature ever to be recorded on Earth.
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
1962 – Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1973 – The Bahamas gained full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
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GAME OF THE DAY