QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Abraham Meurs (1904-21.02.1946), a Dutch chess composer.
Kaarle Ojanen (1918-09.01.2009), a Finnish International Master and Correspondence International Master who was the thirteen-time Finnish Champion.
Srecko Nedeljkovic (1923-02.01.2011), a Serbian player, coach, trainer, and author who was graduated from the Faculty of Medicine.
William Lombardy (1937), an American Grandmaster of chess, writer, teacher, and one-time Roman Catholic priest. Lombardy became the first American to win the 1957 World Junior Chess Championship (11-0).
Goran Dizdar (1958), a Croatian Grandmaster who was Croatian Champion in 1995.
Viktor Moskalenko (1960), an Ukrainian Grandmaster who was Ukrainian Champion in 1987.
Joshua Waitzkin (1976), an American player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy and won the U.S. Junior Chess Championship in 1993 and 1994.
Beatriz Irene Franco Valencia (1987), a Colombian Woman Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Johan Scheel (26.12.1889-1958), a Norwegian chess composer.
Karl Gilg (20.01.1901-1981), a German International Master who played four Olympiads for Czechoslovakia before WWII.
Gisela Kahn Gresser (08.02.1906-2000), an American Woman International Master, the first female American who got an international title. She won nine national women’s title.

CHESS EVENTS

1980 Algebraic notation was due to be used from January 1^st, 1981 for all FIDE Competitions.
1989 S. Matveeva (USSR) won the European Girls under-20 Championship held in  Straszecin, Poland.

WORLD EVENTS

1791 The first edition of The Observer, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, is published.
1902 Charles Dow, American journalist and publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones & Company (b. 1851).
1881 The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
1918 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.
1943 World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
1954 The first Burger King is opened in Miami.
1977 Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
1982 The People’s Republic of China adopts its current constitution.

(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY