QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

George Leathem (1881-04.01.1953), a British chess composer.
Enver Bukic (1937), a Slovenian Grandmaster (1976) born in Serbia, Slovenian Champion in 1993 and in 1998. About 25 years ago when he was coaching in Kuwait, he became blind due to some exotic tropical disease.
Jan Rusinek (1950), a Polish Grandmaster of chess composition and a mathematician.
Carlos Garcia Palermo (1953), an Argentine-Italian Grandmaster and coach.
Anda Safranska (1960), a Latvian Woman Grandmaster.
Hans Johner (07.01.1889-1975), a Swiss International Grandmaster who won six titles of Swiss Champion.
Al Rakid Abdulla (1980), a Bangladeshi Grandmaster who won the Bangladeshi Chess Championship in 2013.
Joshua Friedel (1986), an American Grandmaster who won the United States Open Chess Championship in 2013.

DEATHS

Sergei Urusov (03.08.1827-1897), a leading 19th-century Russian player.
Henri Weenink (17.10.1892-1931), a Dutch chess player and a problem composer who played four Olympiads for Netherlands.
Zdenek Mach (02.05.1877-1954), a Czech chess composer.

CHESS EVENTS

1986 The teams of USSR won  both the men’s and women’s sections of the 27^th Olympiad.
1990 The team of USSR won the 29^th Chess Olympiad with 39 points.
1993 I. Miladinovic (YUG) and N. Khurtsidze (GEO) won the World Junior Championships for Boys and Girls in Calicut, India.

WORLD EVENTS

1697 St Paul’s Cathedral is consecrated in London.
1804 At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
1805 War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Austerlitz: French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
1823 Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas.
1848 Franz Joseph I becomes Emperor of Austria.
1852 Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
1908 Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
1942 World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1954 The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
1961 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1971 Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
1975 Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
1976 Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
1982 At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
1988 Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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