QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Antonius van der Linde (14.11.1833-1897), Dutch chess historian. His library was bought by the Royal Dutch Library based in The Hague, the second biggest chess library in the world..
Louis Dee Statham (1907-1983), US millionaire engineer and inventor of medical instruments who sponsored the Lone Pine tournaments from 1971 till 1981.
Sir Richard William Clarke (1910-21.06.1975), British civil servant who established the British Grading System in 1958.
Edmund Broadley Edmondson (1920-21.10.1982), American chess amateur, former president (1963-1966) and executive director (1966-1977) of the U.S. Chess Federation.
Jozsef Horvath (1964), Hungarian Grandmaster.
Jean Luc Chabanon (1971), French Grandmaster.
Rasul Ibrahimov (1981), Azeri Grandmaster.
Chanda Sandipan (1983), Indian Grandmaster who was Viswanathan Anand’s second for the World Chess Championship 2013 match.
Alan Pichot (1998), Argentine Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Josef Cumpe (1868-1943), Czech problemist who composed about 1500 problems.
Tigran Petrosian (17.06.1929-1984), Soviet-Armenian Grandmaster who was the Wolrd Champion between 1963 and 1963. His overall performance in the Olympiads was impressive: +78 =50 −1 (only one game lost out of 139 games played).

CHESS EVENTS

1937 Vera Menchik (CSR) overwhelmed her rivals to win  the Women’s World Championship for the 7^th time during the Olympiad with 14/14!
2014 Judith Polgar (HUN), the best female player of the chess history, announced her retirement from competitive chess.
2015 In Al Ain, UAE A.R. Saleh Salem (UAE) became 2015 Asian Champion ahead of Surya Shekhar Ganguly (IND). Mitra Hejazipour (IRI) won the title in the women’s competition.

WORLD EVENTS

1521 – After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer theAztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1532 – Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
1942 – Walt Disney’s fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters.
1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants’ attempts to escape to the West.

(Source: Wikipedia)