QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHDAYS

Max Judd (Maximilian Judkiewicz- 1851-1906), an Amercian player born in Poland. In 1890, Judd defeated US chess champion Jackson Showalter in a match in St. Louis (7-3), but did not claim the title.
Alexander Rueb (1882-02.02.1959), a Dutch player, International Arbiter and chess composer. He became the first President of FIDE in 1924.
Walther Grimshaw (1832-1890), a British composer.
Paul Michel (1905-14.07.1977), a German-Argentine International Master. He was a member of the German team in Buenos Aires who won the 1939 Olympiad. When World War II was broke out, Michel along with all German players had decided to stay permanently in Argentina.
Raset Ziatdinov (1958), an American-Grandmaster and coach who was the 1983 Uzbek champion.
Kateryna Lahno (1989), a Russian Grandmaster and Women Grandmaster born in Ukraine who was the 2005 European Individual Women’s Champion and the 2010 World Rapid Women’s Champion.

DEATHS

Hugo Suechting (08.10.1874-1916), a German Master who won the 8th German Congress in 1893.
Carl Schlechter (02.03.1874-1918), a leading Austrian Master who drew  5-5 with Em. Lasker for the World Chess Championship title in 1910. Schlechter died of pneumonia and starvation in Budapest.
Genrikh Kasparyan (2702.1910-1995), An Armenian Grandmaster of chess composition one of the greatest composers of chess endgame studies who was also 10 times champion of Armenia.
Ernesto Defourny (1885-1967), an Italian composer.
Alexei Sokolsky (05.11.1908-1969), a Ukrainian-Belarusian International Master.  is known now mostly due to his opening research and development of 1.b4.
Isaias Pleci (27.10.1907-1979), an Argentine International Master who was the Argentine Champion in 1929 to 1930.

CHESS EVENT

1939 The American Chess Federation and National Chess Federation formed the USCF.

WORLD EVENTS

1825 1st public railway using steam locomotive completed in England between Stockton and Darlington.
1822 Louis Pasteur (d.1895), French chemist and microbiologist, was born in Dole, France.
1901 Marlene Dietrich (d.1992), German-born singer and actress was born.
1911 “Jana Gana Mana”, the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
1927 Stalin’s faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled.
1934 Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran
1945 The International Monetary Fund is created with the signing of an agreement by 29 nations.
1948 Gerard Depardieu, a French actor, was born in France.
1949 Indonesian National Revolution: The Netherlands officially recognizes Indonesian independence. End of the Dutch East Indies.
1978 Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.
1979 The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
1991  Muslim fundamentalists in Algeria won a major victory in free legislative elections; however, the military ended up canceling the election results.
2004 Ukraine election officials said opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko won 51.99 percent to 44.19 percent for Moscow-backed PM Viktor Yanukovych. Supporters of the pro-Russian PM vowed to challenge the results in court.
2007 Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.
2008 In Malaysia Tuanku Ja’afar Tuanku Abdul Rahman (86), a royal state ruler, died. He became Malaysia’s king for five years (1994-1999) under the country’s unique monarchal system.

(Source: Wikipedia-timeline.com)

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