QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Istvan Abonyi (1886-05.06.1942), Hungarian Master, who introduced the Abonyi Gambit (1.Nf3 d5 2.e4). FIDE Life Member.
Josef Vancura (1898 – 19-11-1921), Czech composer.
Alexander Stripunsky (1970), US Grandmaster born in Ukraine who tie for first at the US championship in 2005.
Vega Jorge (1935), Guatemalan International Arbiter born in Cuba. FIDE officer and the President of the American Continent since 2002.
Dorian Rogozenco (1973) Romanian Grandmaster and author born Moldova.
Alexandre Lesiege (1975), Canadian Grandmaster who won three Canadian championships.
Vadim Zvjaginsev (1976), Russian Grandmaster, he played for the gold medal-winning Russian team in the 1997 World Team Chess Championship and in the 1998 Chess Olympiad.

DEATHS

Louis Paulsen (15.1.833-1891), German player who was considered to among the top five players in the world during the period 1860s and 1870s.
Stefano Rosselli del Turco (27.07.1877-1947), Italian master. who played in all first ten Italian championships, and was twice Italian Champion.
Levante Lengyel Levante (13.06. 1933-2014) Hungarian Grandmaster who tied for first with L. Portisch at the Hungarian championship of 1962.

CHESS EVENTS

1984 Curt Hansen of Denmark won the World Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland.
1986 Walter Arencibia of Cuba won the World Junior Championship in Gausdal, Norway.

WORLD EVENTS

1783 A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.
1868 French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
1903 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
1920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women’s suffrage.
1945 Sukarno takes office as the first president of Indonesia, following the country’s declaration of independence the previous day.
1958 Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
1965 Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
2008 President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns under threat of impeachment.

(Source: Wikipedia)