QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Jozsef Szily (1913-26.04.1976), Hungarian International Master and International Arbiter.
Antonio Medina Garcia (1919-31.10.2003), Spanish International Master who was seven times Spanish Champion.
Jonathan Speelman (1956), English Grandmaster, columnist, and writer who won three British championships.
Vlastimil Babula (1973) was born, Czech Grandmaster  who was Czech Champion in 1993 and second at the World Junior Championship of 1993.
Salvador Del Rio De Angelis (1976) Spanish Grandmaster born in Argentina who won the Spanish rapid chess championship in 2006.
Vitaly Kunin (1983), was German Grandmaster born in Russia.
Ruan, Lufei (1987), Chinese Woman Grandmaster who was the Women’s World Championship runner-up in 2010.

DEATHS

Karel Treybal ( 02.02.1885-1941), one of the best Czech Masters before WWII. Treybal died during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Andrija Fuderer (13.05. 1931-2011), Croatian–Belgian Honorary Grandmaster who had a PHD in chemistry.

CHESS EVENTS

1986 Candidates’ Final Match in Riga, A. Sokolov (USSR) defeated A. Yusupov (USSR) 7½-6½.
1996 In Armenia, Russia won the 32^nd Olympiad and Georgia the Women’s Olympiad.
1999 A. Galkin (RUS) and M. Kouvatsu (GRE) became World Junior Champions among Boys and Girls in Yerevan.
2011 0 The teams of Saint Petersburg and AVS from Russia became  the winners of the European Club Cup for men and women.

WORLD EVENTS 

1535 Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal is now located.
1869 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist and philosopher was born (d. 1948).
1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.
1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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