QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Laszlo Lindner (1916- 21.08.2004), a Hungarian composer, journalist, and organizer.
Robin Ault (1941-16.09.1994), an Amercian who won the U.S. Junior Championship three times in a row (1959, 1960, 1961).
Martin Kraemer (1987), a German Grandmaster.

DEATH

Narcisco Rabell-Mendez (1936-2913), a Puerto Rican player and FIDE Official.

CHESS EVENTS

1985 Garry Kasparov announced his refusal to play the revenge match against Anatoly Karpov as requested by FIDE.
1995 The team of  Philippines won the Asian Team Championship in Singapore.

WORLD EVENTS

558 Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks.
1688 King James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch flees to France from William of Orange.
1909 Albert I becomes the third King of the Belgians.
1941 Japan begins assault on Rangoon, Burma.
1952 Alain Bombard arrives in Barbados after 65 days at sea proving his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive with almost no provisions, despite having lost 25 kg (65 lbs)in weight.
1947 The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
1948 Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.
1954 First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
1960 King Saud of Saudi Arabia takes power1970 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.
1963 Beach Boys 1st appearance on “Shindig”
1972 A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.
1972 The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having reportedly survived by cannibalism.
1979 Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
2007 An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.

(Source: Wikipedia and Internet)

GAME OF THE DAY