QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Emanuel Lasker (1868-11.01.1941), a German Master, the second World Champion who keep his title for 27 years.
Richard Teichmann (1868-15.06.1925), a German Master known as “Richard the Fifth” because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments.
Alexander Hildebrand (1921-03.08.2005), a Swedish chess composer.
Aage Vestol (1922-30.03.2008) a Norwegian Master who was Nordic Champion in 1939 and Norwegian Champion in 1949.
Richard Delaune (1954-2003), an American International Master who died of a heart at 49.  USA.
Adam Kuligowski (1955), a Polish Grandmaster who won the Polish championship in 1978. He stopped to play chess in the 1990’s and apparently had been jailed in Poland.
Frederick Gamage (22.11.1882-1956), an American chess composer.
Tomas Oral (1977), a Czech Grandmaster who became famous after beating G. Kasparov in a simultaneous game in 2001.
Pontus Carlsson (1982), Swedish Grandmaster born in Columbia.
Irina Krush (1983), an American Grandmaster born in Ukraine who won 7 titles of U.S. Women’s Champion.   At age 14, after winning her first U.S. title, she became the youngest U.S. Women’s Champion ever.
Egor Krivoborodov (1989), Russian Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1985 K. Arakhamia (USSR) won the World Girls’ under 20 Championship in Dobrna, Yugoslavia.
2010 In Turkey, the new world Champion was determined on the tie-break match between two Chinese players Hou Yifan and Ruan Lufei. Being 16, Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan became the youngest World Champion after Maya Chiburdanidze who won her title at the age of 17.

WORLD EVENTS

1715 Swedish troops occupy Norway.
1851 Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington, destroys 35,000 volumes.
1865 The Ku Klux Klan is formed.
1893 Henry Ford completes his first useful petroleum fuelled engine
1924 Albania becomes a republic.
1929 Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
1943 World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Invasion of Normandy.
1946 4th French republic established
1951 Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
1954 Laos gains its independence
1968 Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.
1969 The oil company Phillips Petroleum made the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector of North Sea.

(Source: Wikipedia and Internet)

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