QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Matthias Wahls, (1968)  a German Grandmaster, author and poker player.
Rune Djurhuus (1970), a Norwegian Champion and Grandmaster who was the European Junior in 1991 ahead of V. Kramnik.
Ana Benderac (1977), a Serbian Woman Grandmaster.
Alexander Goloschapov (1978), a Ukrainian Grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer.
Benjamin Bok (1995), a Dutch Grandmaster who was a member of the national team in 2016 at Baku Olympiad.

DEATH

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (12.11.1850-1908), the founder of the Russian chess school and one best world player in the 1890s. Steinitz said that he was “the most meritorious challenger for the World Crown”.
Ian Wells  (22.06.1964-1982), English International Master who died at 17  when he went swimming and got caught in an undertow.

CHESS EVENTS

1947 M. Najdorf played 45 games blindfold and simultaneously at the Prestes Maia Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil on 24-25 January 1947. He scored +39 –2 =4 in approximately 23 hours.
1996  FIDE President K. Ilyumzhinov met in Lausanne with H.E. Juan Antonio Samaranch to discuss the possibility to organize the first World KO Championship in Lausanne.

WORLD EVENTS

AD 41 After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman Emperor by the Senate.
1327 King Edward III accedes to the English throne
1515 Coronation of Francis I of France.
1554 Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
1858 The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria’s daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
1915 Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1916 Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary.
1924 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France.
1939 Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed.
1949 1st Israeli election – Ben-Gurion’s Mapai party wins
1955 The Soviet Union ends the state of war with Germany.
1961 Walt Disney’s “101 Dalmations” is released.
1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia.
2011 Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labor strikes and violent clashes in Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities.

(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)

GAME OF THE DAY