QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Alexander Tolush ( (1910-03.03.1969), a Soviet Grandmaster, a journalist who was the main coach of Boris Spassky.
Iosif Dorfman (1952), French Grandmaster, coach and author born in Ukraine, USSR Champion 1977 and 1998 French Champion, second of Kasparov in 1984-87.
Alexander Ivanov (1956), American Grandmaster born in Russia. Co-winner of the 1995 U.S. Championship and America Continental Champion in 1998 and 2000.
Leonid Yurtaev (1959-02.06.2011),  the first Kyrgyz player to receive the Grandmaster title.
Vladimir Sergeev (1964), a Ukrainian Grandmaster and author.
Ziaur Rahman (1974) Bangladeshi chess Grandmaster (1993) graduated from the University of Dhaka. He was Bangladesh champion fourteen times.
Misa Pap (1979) Serbian Grandmaster and coach living in Germany.
Ruud Janssen (1979), a Dutch Grandmaster (2011).
Jean-Pierre Le Roux (1982), a French Grandmaster (2010) who finished second at the French Championship in 2007.
Jonathan Hawkins (1983) English Grandmaster who shared first at the British Chess Championship 2014.

CHESS EVENTS

1841. England. The first weekly issue of the Chess Player’s Chronicle is published.
1845 USA. The first American chess column appeared in the New York Spirit of the Times and was edited by C.H. Stanley.
1928 Netherland. FIDE President A. Rueb wrote some suggestions on the future of the World Championship matches. He proposed to reduce the prize fund to SF 10.000 (in London 1922 the strongest players of the World including Alekhine and Capablanca decided to play for a minimum amount of US$ 10.000) and organize the match every 3rd year. The winner would be the first who won 4 games out of a maximum of 25 games.

WORLD EVENTS

1707 The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain
1786 In Vienna, Austria, Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.
1840 The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued in the United Kingdom.
1869 The FoliesBergère opens in Paris.
1930 The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.
1931 The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1945 World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has “fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany”. The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery, by order of Stalin.
1948 The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established, with Kim Il-sung as leader.
1956 The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
1961 The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
1994 Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.
2004 Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union.
2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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