QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTH

Franz Drobny 1863-28.12.1924), an Austrian player and chess composer.
Josef Kling (19.03.1811-1876), a British Master and chess composer born in Germany.
Semyen Furman (1920-17.03.1978), a Soviet Grandmaster and trainer. He was the main coach of Anatoly Karpov for many years.
Milunka Lazarevic (1932), a Serbian Woman Grandmaster who won 11 times the Yugoslav Woman Championship.
Bertus F. Enklaar (1943-03.10.1996), a Dutch International Master.
Menachem Orem (Mieczyslaw Chwojnik 1903-1962), an Israeli Master born in Poland who won the Israeli championship in 1951.
Dimitri Komarov (1968), an Ukrainian Grandmaster and coach.
Pin Wang (1974), a Chinese Woman Grandmaster who became the national champion in  2001.

DEATHS

Paul Farago (04.04.1886-1970), a Romanian chess composer.
Grigory Goldberg (22.07.1908-1976), a Soviet Master who was Botvinnik’s second for his World Championship matches in the 1950’s.

CHESS EVENTS

1877 In New York,  37 players showed up for the first meeting of the Manhattan Chess Club. The entrance fee was $1 per person and the dues were $4 per year. The address was Cafe Logeling, 49 Bowery Street, Manhattan NY.
1985 In Dubai, the first Arab Junior Championship was won by Boudiba from Algeria.
1990 The FIDE GA approved the description of the FIDE Motto, seal, and flag. The FIDE Motto is “Gens Una Sumus”.
2012 The 27-year-old Ukrainian Anna Ushenina emerged as the 14th World Champion. Ushenina won the second rapid play game in the final against former champion (2004-6) Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria.
2014 FIDE published the first Anti-Cheating Guidelines prepared by the FIDE/ACP Anti-Cheating Committee approved by the FIDE Presidential Board.

WORLD EVENTS 

1640 End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 60 years of the personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
1822 Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
1913 Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
1913 Crete, having obtained self-rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
1918 The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1941 World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
1958 The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
1973 Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.
1991 Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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