QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Milan Vukic (1942), Serbian Grandmaster who won the Yugoslav championship in 1970, 1971 and 1974.
Philipp Schlosser was born in Munich, Germany. German Grandmaster who shared first at the German championship in 1995.
Joseph Sanchez (1970), Filipino Grandmaster.
Elhaj Nizar Ali (1972), Lybian chess amateur who the African Continental President between 2006 and 2010.
Kazbek Akbaev (1981), Russian Grandmaster.
Mohamed Haddouche (1985), Algerian Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1922 The London tournament ended with the victory of the World Champion JR Capablanca. Capablanca proposed the “London rules” – a set of 21 rules which became the first “law” for the organizing of the championship matches.
1950 President Tito of Yugoslavia opened the Olympiad in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. It was the first Olympiad since 1939. Due to political questions, all the other Eastern European countries decided to boycott the festival. Sixteen teams took part, so no preliminaries were held.
1957 The GA approved Costa Rica and Malaysia as full members.
1977 Candidates Semi Final in Geneva, B. Spassky USSR beat L. Portisch HUN
1999 Xie Jun of China won for the second time the Women’s World Chess Championship beating Alisa Galliamova of Russia 8.5-6.5.

WORLD EVENTS

1839 The French government announces that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the world”.
1909 The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
1919 Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
1927 Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
1934 The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
1942 World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.
1944 World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
1953 Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1960 Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
1989 Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.

(Source: Wikipedia)