QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTH

James Moore Hanham (04.01.1840-1923), an American player and writer who finished second at the 1st U.S. Championship in 1888. He gave his name at a variation of the Philidor’s Defence (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nd7).
Manuel Aaron (1935), an Indian International Master and a coach. He was the fist Indian player to be awarded an international title.
Bruno Parma (1941), a Slovenia Grandmaster who won the Wolrd Junior championship in 1961.
Bruce Murray Amos (1946), a Canadian international Master and a mathematician.

DEATH

Josef Pospisil (01-11-1861 – 1916) Czech chess composer.

CHESS EVENTS

2006 In Botswana, Mwali, Chitumbo of Zambia and Melisa Greeff of South Africa became the African U20 Champions for boys and girls.

WORLD EVENTS

39CE Titus, 10th Roman emperor (79-81) and conqueror of Jerusalem, was born.
1703 Tokyo was hit by Earthquake and some 37,000 people died.
1813 War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
1851 Asa Griggs Candler, developer of Coca-Cola, was born.
1903 A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
1906 The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India. It went on to lay the foundations of Pakistan.
1916 The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
1922 Vladimir I. Lenin proclaimed the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Soviet Russia was renamed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Soviet Union was organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR.
1944 King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
1947 King Michael of Romania agreed to abdicate but charged he was being forced off the throne by Communists.
1950 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia became independent states in the French Union.
1953  The first color TV sets went on sale. An Admiral color set was priced about $1,175 in 1953 dollars!
1965 Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.
1967  Beatles’ “Hello Goodbye,” single went #1 for 3 weeks.
2006 Madrid–Barajas Airport is bombed.
2006 Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.
2007 30, President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the closest presidential election in Kenya’s history,
2008 The Kremlin said President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law extending presidential terms from four years to six, a move seen as paving the way for Vladimir Putin’s return to the presidency.
2010 In Qatar Mathaf, the first Arab Museum of Modern Art, opened.

(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline.ws)

GAME OF THE DAY