QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Dragoljub Janosevic 1923-20.05.1993), a Serbian Grandmaster who beat the world champions Mikhail Botvinnik, Mikhail Tal, Tigran Petrosian and Fischer.
Frank Holzke (1971), a German Grandmaster
Victor Mikhalevski (1972), an Israeli Grandmaster born in Belarus who was Israeli Champion in 2016.
Emilio Cordova (1991), a Peruvian Grandmaster.

DEATH

Miroslav Kostal (Miroslav Havel 1881-1959), a Czech chess composer.

CHESS EVENT

1986 England won the World Students’ Team Championship in Puerto Rico.

WORLD EVENTS

1709 Peter the Great defeated Charles XII at Poltava, in the Ukraine, effectively ending the Swedish empire.
1794 French troops captured Brussels, Belgium.
1815 With Napoleon defeated, Louis XVIII returned to Paris.
1839 John D. Rockefeller (d.1937), financier, philanthropist, founder of Standard Oil, was born.
1932 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 41.22, with an intra-day low of 40.56, its lowest point during the Great Depression.
1943 Jean “Max” Moulin (b. Jun 20, 1899), French resistance fighter, was executed.
1960 The Soviet Union charged Francis Gary Powers, whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the country, with espionage.
1986 Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despite controversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes.
1989 Carlos Saul Menem was inaugurated as president of Argentina
1990 West Germany won the World Cup soccer championship by defeating Argentina, 1-to-0.
1993 In Latvia Guntis Ulmanis was sworn in as president.
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GAME OF THE DAY