QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Johann Allgaier (1763), a German player who was an author of the first chess handbook in German. At the end of 1780’s, he won the title of the best chess player in Vienna.
Viktor Kart (1929), a Ukrainian International Arbiter and FIDE Trainer who brought up Beliavsky, Romanishin, Mikhalchishin, and Litinskaya.
John Michael, Rice (1937), a British player, author and chess composer.
Heberla, Bartlomiej Heberla (1985), a Polish Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.
Oleg Nikolenko (1959), a Russian Grandmaster.
Dennis Wagner (1997),  a German Grandmaster.

WORLD EVENTS

1464 French King Louis XI formed a postal service.
1917 King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. The family took the name “Windsor.”
1936 Max Schmeling of Germany knocked out Joe Louis in their first fight in NYC.
1942 In Czechoslovakia PM Alois Elias, sentenced to death in October 1941 for high treason and espionage, was executed.
1948 USSR blocked the access road to West Berlin.
1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg convicted of passing U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II, were executed
1953 Egypt was proclaimed a republic. Lieutenant Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser became premier.
1963 Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returned to Earth after spending nearly three days as the first woman in space.
1978 America’s favorite lasagna-loving cat, Garfield, created by Jim Davis, first appeared in newspapers as a comic strip.
1986 Argentina beat West Germany 3-2 in soccer’s 13th World Cup in Mexico.
1989 The government of Burma renamed the country Myanmar. Rangoon was renamed Yangon.
(Source: Timeline)

GAME OF THE DAY