QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Walther P. Shipley (1860-17.02.1942), a well-known American organizer and chess patron.
Iuri Shkuro (1982), a Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Guliskhan Nakhbayeva (1991), a Kazakh Woman Grandmaster.
Olga Babiy (1989), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster.
Nargiz Umudova (1989), an Azerbaijani Woman Grandmaster.

DEATH

Johannes Zukertort (07.09.1842-1888), a Polish-born player who was one of the strongest chess players of the second half of 19^th century, chess journalist and was the editor of the ‘Neue BerlinerSchachzeitung’.

CHESS EVENTS

1968 Candidates Quarterfinal in Sukhumi, USSR, B. Spassky USSR beat E. Geller USSR 5½-2½.
1999 IOC informed FIDE about its recognition of FIDE as a Federation.
2014 Magnus Carlsen became the World Blitz Champion.

WORLD EVENTS

1837 Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1840 Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1944 The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
1960 The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
1963 Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called “red telephone” link between Washington and Moscow.
1975 The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as “summer blockbusters”.
1990 The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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