QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Max Weiss (1857-14.03.1927), an Austrian chess player and author born in the Kingdom of Hungary who was one of the top world players around 1890.
Boris Kutin (1947), Slovenian chess journalist who is FIDE Vice-President and was the organizer of the 2002 and 2006 Olympiads.
Vladimir Malaniuk (1957), Ukrainian Grandmaster who shared the second place at the USSR ch. in 1986.
Dimitar I. Donchev (1958). Bulgarian Grandmaster who became twice the national champion.
Walter Arencibia Rodriguez (1967), Cuban Grandmaster who became World Junior Champion.
Oleg Moiorov (1971), Russian Grandmaster.
Vladimir Onischuk (1991), Ukrainian Grandmaster who was European U10 champion in 2001.

DEATHS

Ugo Lancia, Italian composer (31.05.1885-1960), Italian chess composer who published 2370 problems.
Vladimir Bagirov (16.08.1936-2000), Latvian Grandmaster, author, and trainer. Bagirov was World Senior Champion in 1998. He died of a heart attack while playing a tournament game.

CHESS EVENTS

1928 17 teams met in The Hague, Holland for the 2^nd Olympiad. Many Masters were absent because at the previous FIDE Congress the British Chess Federation had fought for a decision to permit only non-professionals to play in the tournament of nations. The British Chess Federation refused to send its team as they suspected the Americans of sending professionals.
1963 Czechoslovakia won the 10^th World Student Team Championship in Budva, Yugoslavia.

WORLD EVENTS

356 BC The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
365 A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake, which was estimated to be magnitude 8.5 or higher. Five thousand people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city.
1831 Inauguration of Leopold I of Belgium, first king of the Belgians. Belgian national day.
1873 At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
1904 Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
1949 The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
1954 First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
1970 After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
1983 The world’s lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).

(Source: Wikipedia)

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