QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Count Ansidei Francesco (1804-08.10.1873), Italian player, writer and teacher.
Johannes Jacob Rietveld, (1893-15.08.1968), Dutch chess composer and a painter.
Helmut Pfleger (1943) German Grandmaster born in the Czech Republic. A journalist and a writer.
Christophe Bernard (1952), French International Master who won the French championship in 1987.
Stanislav Voitsekhovsky (1964), Russian Grandmaster.
Emilia Djingarova (1978), Bulgarian Women Grandmaster and national women champion 2003.
Jana Jackova (1982) Czech International Master and Women Grandmaster.
Cmilyte Viktorija, (1983), Lithuanian Grandmaster and Women Grandmaster. The 2005 Lithuanian champion. In 2015 she got a seat in the Lithuanian parliament.
Vladimir Belov (1984), Russian grandmaster who was the Champion of Moscow in 2007.

DEATHS

Ludwig Bledow  (27.07. 1795-1846), German Master, co-founder of the Berlin Pleiades and the founder  of the first German chess magazine, Schachzeitung der Berliner Schachgesellschaft.
Raul Sanguinetti (02.02.1933-2000), Argentine Grandmaster who won 7 times the title of Argentine Champion.

CHESS EVENTS

1977 Candidates Semi Final in Evian, France, V. Korchnoi beat L. Polugaevsky USSR 8½-4½.
1987 In Smederevska Palanka, Yugoslavia, Litinskaya (USSR), Gaprindashivili (USSR) and Levitina (USSR) were the qualifiers from the Women’s Interzonal.

WORLD EVENTS

1538 Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1806 Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, ending the Holy Roman Empire.
1825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
1861 The United Kingdom annexes Lagos, Nigeria.
1914 World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1945 World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.
1960 Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
1962 Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1997 Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.
2012 NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY