QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Marmaduke Wyvill (1815-25.06.1896), an English Master and politician. The only tournament he played was in London in 1851 where he took second prize behind Adolf Anderssen.
Dawid Przepiorka (1880-1940), a strong Polish Master and chess composer who won the first Polish Champion in 1926. Arrested by the German Nazi because being a Jew, he was executed some time later.
Vitaly Chekhover (1908-11.02.1965), a Soviet player and chess composer.
Kornelia Vreeken, Kornelia, (1928), an Honorary Dutch Woman Grandmaster who won five titles of Dutch Women’s Champion.
Gregory Shahade (1978), an American International Master who is also a professional poker player.
Arianne Caoili (1986), a Filipino Women International Master who is in a relationship with the GMI Lev Aronian and living in Armenia.

DEATH

Karl Adolf Larsen (02.05.1896-1963), Danish composer, died in Kopenhagen, Denmark.
Antonio Sacconi(05.10.1895-1968),  an Italian Master who became the Italian Champion in 1935.
Antonio Bottacci (16.04.1900-1969), an Italian composer, died in Salice Terme, Italy.
Hugh Edward Myers (23.01.1930-2008) an American Master and author.
John Alan Grefe (06.09.1947 22.12 2013), an International Master who was a co-winners of the 1973 U.S. Championship.

CHESS EVENTS

2014 In Windhoek Namibia, Kenny Solomon (RSA) shared first with Ahmed Adly (EGY) but with a better tie-break took the title of 2014 African Individual Champion. In the women’s section Schrook Wafa (EGY) finished clear first.

WORLD EVENTS

69 Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered at the Gemonian stairs in Rome.
1135 Stephen of Blois becomes King of England
1808 Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).
1885 Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
1894 The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
1941 General Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia.
1941 Winston Churchill arrives in Washington, D.C. for a wartime conference.
1965 “Doctor Zhivago” based on the novel by Boris Pasternak, directed by David Lean and starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie premieres in NYC.
1989 Communist President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown by Ion Iliescu after days of bloody confrontations. The deposed dictator and his wife flee Bucharest in a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers.
1989 Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
1990 Lech Wałęsa is elected President of Poland.
1990 Final independence of Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship.

(Source: Wikipedia and Internet)