QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Andrey Makarov (1951), Russian International Master, FIDE officer and former Russian Chess Federation President.
Maxim Sorokin (1968-30.06.2007), A Russian Grandmaster and coach who died several days after an auto crash in Kalmykia.
Olga Dolzhikova (1979), a Norwegian born-Ukrainian Woman Chess Grandmaster, PhD in Education and chess author, coach and administrator.
Sergey Klimov (1979), a Russian Grandmaster.
Nikolai Kabanov (1980), a Russian Grandmaster.
Nicholas Pert (1981), an English Grandmaster who was the World Under-18 Chess Champion in 1998.
Etienne Bacrot (1983), a French Grandmaster and former chess prodigy who was seven times French champion.

CHESS EVENT

1927 The Portuguese Chess Federation was founded.

WORLD EVENTS

1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
1528 England & France declare war on Emperor Charles V.
1771 Spain cedes the Falkland Islands to Britain
1901 Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
1905 Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
1915 Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
1970 The Boeing 747, the world’s first “jumbo jet”, enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
1980 Russian dissidents Andrei Sakharov & Jelena Bonner arrested in Moscow and banished to Gorky
2006 Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country’s first indigenous president.

(Souce: Wikipedia-Onthisday)

GAME OF THE DAY