QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Johann Allgaier (19.06.1763-1823), a German-Austrian Master and theoretician.
Alfred Brinckmann (1891–30.05.1967), a German chess International Master, an author who won the German Chess Championship in 1927.
Frank Ross Anderson (1928– 18.09.1980), a Canadian International Master and a chess writer who won the Canadian chess championship in 1955.
Andrzej Sydor (1937), a Polish International Master.
Miroslaw Grabarczyk (1971), a Polish Grandmaster.
Pavel Kotsur (1974), a Kazakh Grandmaster. In 2002, he tied for first in the Kazakhstani Chess Championship.
Oganes Danielian (1974-08.08.2016), an Armenia Grandmaster who finished second in the World Under 18 championship. He died of cancer.
Roland Salvador (1982),  a Filipino Grandmaster.
Merab Gagunashvili (1985), a Georgian Grandmaster who was the Georgian Champion in 2004 and 2010.
Mateusz Bartel (1985), a Polish Grandmaster who won the Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Maria Kursova, (1986), an Armenian Woman Grandmaster.
Jacek Stopa, (1987), a Polish Grandmaster.
Robert Aghasaryan,(1994), an Armenian Grandmaster.

DEATH

Laszlo Vadasz (27.01.1948-2005), a Hungarian Grandmaster and writer.

CHESS EVENTS

1927 The FIDE headquarters together with the Dutch Chess Federation and the Chess Club of The Hague were formally opened at 1, Speykstraat, The Hague, Holland.
1985 F. Hellers (SWE) won the 14^th European Junior Championship in Groningen.

WORLD EVENTS

1833 Britain ousted a small group of Argentine settlers and seized control of the Malvina Islands (Falkland Islands) in the South Atlantic. In 1982 Argentina seized the islands, but Britain took them back after a 74-day war.
1848 Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Liberia.
1919 At the Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1925 Benito Mussolini dissolved the Italian parliament and became a dictator.
1959 President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.
1959 Fidel Castro took the command of the Cuban army.
1961 The United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba after Fidel Castro announced he was a communist.
1967 Jack Ruby (55), the man who shot accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died in a Dallas hospital.
1977 Apple Computers incorporated under Steven Jobs and Steve Wozniak. In March Apple produced the Apple II, the first pre-assembled, mass-produced PC.
1979 Conrad Hilton (b.1887), American founder of the Hilton Hotel chain, died.
1988 Margaret Thatcher (b.1925) became the longest-servings century.
2000 The last new daily “Peanuts” strip by Charles Schulz ran in 26-hundred newspapers.
2002 Argentina failed to make a $28 million payment on a foreign loan. A devaluation of the peso by 30-40% was expected soon.
2009 Bitcoin, the “world’s first decentralized digital currency” was introduced. It was devised in 2008 by programmer Satoshi Nakomoto

(Source: Timeline)

GAME OF THE DAY