QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Jean de Villeneuve-Esclapon (1860-24-11-1943), a French chess composer.
Hans Hilmar Staudte (18-01-1911 – 21-01-1979)  a German composer and player.
Igor Platonov (1934-13.11.1994), a Ukrainian–Soviet Grandmaster and coach.
Alexander Moroz (1961-17.01.2009), a Ukrainian Grandmaster, International Arbiter who was the president of the Ukrainian Chess Federation.
Alexander Khalifman (1966), a Russian Grandmaster, a coach and writer who became the FIDE World Champion in 1999 after winning the first K.O World Championship in Las Vegas.
Alisa Galliamova (1972), a Russian International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is twice the runner-up at the Women’s World Chess Championship, in 1999 and 2006.
Danilo Milanovic (1974), a Serbian Grandmaster.

DEATHS

John Wisker (30.05.1846-1884), an English player and journalist who was one of the world’s ten best chess players (c. 1870).
Israel Albert Horowitz (15.11.1907-1973) an Amercian International Master who was the editor of the American magazine’Chess Review’ and the author of many chess books.

CHESS EVENTS

1950 Ms. Lyudmila Rudenko USSR won the first Women’s World Championship after WWII.

WORLD EVENTS

350 General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.
1535 Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, the capital of Peru.
1701 Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.
1778 James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the “Sandwich Islands”.
1788 Australia was officially founded when the first English settlers arrived in Australia’s Botany Bay to establish a penal colony.
1862 John Tyler (71), 10th president of the United States (1841-1845), died and was buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Va.
1871 Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War.
1896 An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
1919 World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
1943 The Soviets announced they’d broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad. It was another year before the siege was fully lifted.
1974 A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending the conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.
1977 SFR Yugoslavia’s Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1993 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
2002 Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.
2005 In France, Airbus unveiled the 840-passenger A380, the world’s biggest passenger jet.

(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)

GAME OF THE DAY