QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS 

Samuel Loyd (1841-10.04.1911), an American, the most original and witty composer in the chess history. Published ‘Sam Loyd and his Chess Problems’ in 1913.
Boris Spassky (1937), a Russian Grandmaster who became the tenth World Chess Champion (1969 to 1972). He is the oldest living former world champion. In 2010, Spassky had suffered a serious stroke that had left him paralyzed on his left side.
Dragan Barlov  30.01.1957 a Serbian Grandmaster who was the Yugoslav Champion in 1986.
Alexey Dreev (1969), a Russan Grandmaster, author and trainer who was the World Under-16 Champion in 1983 and 1984, and the European Junior Champion in 1988.
Drazen Sermek (1969), a Slovenian born-Croatian Grandmaster who won the Slovenian Chess Championship in 1993 and 1998.
Boris Chatabalbashev (1974), a Bulgarian Grandmaster who was four times Bulgarian champion.
Marta Zielinska (1978), a Polish Woman Grandmaster in 2003 who won the European U18 Chess Championship in 1995 and the World U18 Chess Championship in 1996.
Tamar Tsereteli (1985), a Georgian Woman Grandmaster.
Carlos Antonio Hevia Alejano, (1991), a Cuban Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1991 30.01 Candidates’ Match round 1 in Madras, India, V. Anand IND beat A. Dreev USSR 4½-1½.
1994 Péter Lékó (HUN) becomes the youngest chess Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 4 months and 22 days.

WORLD EVENTS 

1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn Estuary in England are destroyed by massive flooding, resulting in an estimated 2,000 deaths.
1649 King Charles I of England is beheaded.
1835 In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails.
1847 Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco, California.
1879 French President Patrice de Mac-Mahon resigns
1921 French rapist-murderer Henri-Desire Landru sentenced to
death
1933 Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1948 Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.
1956 Elvis Presley records his version of “Blue Suede Shoes”
1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Largest ever state funeral.
1968 Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies.
1969 The Beatles’ last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
2020 coronavirus outbreak: The World Health Organization (WHO) declares the outbreak of the disease as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)

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