QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Wolfgang Unzicker (21925 – 20.04.2006), one of the strongest German Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970.
Vitali Golod (1971), Soviet–Israeli Grandmaster who was Israeli Champion in 2010.
Beata Zawadzka (1986), a Polish Woman Grandmaster.
Zhao Zong-Yuan (1986), the best ranked Australian Grandmaster.
Evgeny Levin (1990), a Russian Grandmaster.
Mathias Womacka (1966), a German Grandmaster.

DEATH

1944 The Women’s World Champion Vera Menchik-Stevenson, her sister, and her mother died in Kent from a V1-bombing raid. She was the Women’s World Champion 7 times with the magnificent score of +78-1=4.

CHESS EVENT

1962 Tigran Petrosian of USSR won the Candidates Tournament in Curacao

WORLD EVENTS

363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire.
1483 Duke of Gloucester appoints himself King Richard III of England
1718 Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great’s son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1879 Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto.
1945 United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco.
1953 Russian vice-premier/interior minister Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria arrested.
1963 US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner”.
1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career.
1992 Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship.
1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
2016 Iceland’s presidential election is won by history professor Guðni Jóhannesson
(Source: Onthis day)

GAME OF THE DAY