QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Vladimir Nenarokov (1880-1953), Soviet International Master, author, and theoretician.
Valery Loginov (1955), Uzbek Grandmaster who won three championships.
Georgiy Pilavov (1974), Ukrainan Ukrainianer.
Tigran Gorgiev (30.08.192-1976), a Soviet-Ukrainian composer of about 500 studies.
Evgeny Vorobiov (1976), a Russian Grandmaster.
Nikola Sedlak (1983), a Serbian Grandmaster who was awarded a gold medal for the best performence at board 4 of the 2014 Olympiad.

DEATHS

Louis Charles Mahe de La Bourdonnais (1795-1840), a French chess master, possibly the strongest player in the early 19th century who died penniless in London.
Olga Rubtsova (20.08.1909-1994), a Soviet Woman Grandmaster who became the fourth Women’s World Chess Champion. She got also the title of Woman Correspondence Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1970 Robert Fischer won the Interzonal of Palma de Majorca 3½ points ahead, thereby beating the record set by Kotov in 1952.
1971 Women’s Candidates finals in Kislovodsk, Allan Kushnir USSR beat Nona Alexandria 6½-2½ and thus once more had the right to challenge Nona Gaprindashvili for the Women’s World title.
1994 The FIDE GA admitted Korean Chess Confederation and Grupo de Xadrez de Macau as full members.

WORLD EVENTS

1903 Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone mound (NJ).
1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
1928 George Gershwin’s An American in Paris is first performed.
1939 World War II: Battle of the River Plate: Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMNZS Achilles.
1949 The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.1959 – Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
1966 1st US bombing of Hanoi part of Operation Rolling Thunder during the Vietnam War
1974 Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1996 Kofi Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.£2003 – Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.

(Source: Wikiepdia)

GAME OF THE DAY