QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Vasja Pirc (1907-02.06.1980), a leading Slovenian chess player who was five times champion of Yugoslavia: 1935, 1936, 1937, 1951, and 1953. He is known to develop the practice of the Pirc Defence.
Max Blau (1918-1984), a Swiss International Master born in Germany who won four times Swiss Chess Championship (1953, 1955, 1956, and 1967).
Corvin Radovici (1931), a Romanian International Master and coach.
Jusefs Petkevich (1940), a Latvian Grandmaster who became the Senior World Champion in 2002.
Andres Rodriguez (1973), the first Uruguayan Grandmaster and former champion. A coach who is living in Argentine.
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (1986), an Ukrainian Grandmaster who was Ukrainian Champion in 2013.
Robert L Hess (1991), an American Grandmaster who was US Junior Champion in 2006.

CHESS EVENTS

2000 Viswanathan Anand of India and Alexey Shirov of Spain started the final stage of the World Championship in Tehran, Iran.

WORLD EVENTS 

1154 Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
1187 Pope Clement III is elected.
1920 King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
1943 Military coup in Bolivia.
1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
1984 – The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
1986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile.
1991 Boris Yeltsin takes control of the Kremlin.
1998 Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
2012 Park Geun-Hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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