QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Tigran Petrosian (1929- 13.08.1984), a Soviet Armenian Grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969.
Dusan Rajkovic (1942), a Serbian Grandmaster who was Yugoslav champion in 1983.
Andrei Lobusov (1951), a Russian chess composer.
Branko Damljanovic (1961) a Serbian Grandmaster and coach who was Yugoslav Champion and twice Serbian Champion.
Richard Polaczek, (1965), a Belgian International Master and Correspondence Grandmaster.
Peter Svidler (1976) a Russian Grandmaster who was World U18 Champion in 1994 and 7-times Russian Champion.
Andrei Belozerov (1977), a Russian Grandmaster.
Alexander Motylev (1979), a Russian Grandmaster and coach who won the European Championship in 2014 and the Russian Championship in 2001.
Thi Thanh An Nguyen (1976), a Vietnamese Woman Grandmaster.
Peter Horvath (1972), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Lilit Galojant (1983), an Armenian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who is is a two-time Armenian Women Chess Champion.

DEATH

Harry Nelson Pillsbury (05.12.1872-1906) was a leading American Master but his illness and early death prevented to be a challenger to the World Champion Em. Lasker.

WORLD EVENTS

1579 Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
1789 In France, the Third Estate declares itself the National Assembly.
1885 The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
1940 The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
1967 The People’s Republic of China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon.
1991 Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY