QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Rodoslav Simic (1948), a Serbian Grandmaster.
Ashok Vadapetyan (1955), an Armenian International Arbiter who was the Chief Arbiter in few World Championships.
Anna Akhsharumova (1957), a US Woman Grandmaster born in Russia who won two Soviet Women’s Championships and one US Women’s Championship.
Bach Vehi (1960),  Spanish International Master.
Viktor Laznicka (1988), a Czech Grandmaster who was Czech Champion in 2006.
Ufran Sevdimaliyev,(1989), an Azerbaijani Grandmaster.

DEATH

Daniel Harrwitz (29.04.1823 – 1884), a German master who was one of the world’s best active player in the mid 1850s.
Vidmar Dr. Milan Vidmar (22.06.1885-1962), a Slovene Grandmaster, electrical engineer, chess arbiter, philosopher, and writer.
Marcel Sisniega (28.07.1959-2013), Mexican Grandmaster and filmmaker. He was a victim of a heart attack at 54.

CHESS EVENTS

1998 Anatoly Karpov, defending champion, defeated Viswanathan Anand in the FIDE World Chess Championship.
2004 Amid of Egypt and Yougane of Marocco won the African Juniors and Girls Championships

WORLD EVENTS

1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible killed 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod.
1788 Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
1806 Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul’s Cathedral.
1839 The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
1878 Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
1908 Count Zeppelin announced plans for his airship to carry 100 passengers.
1957 British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty.
1960 President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile.
2001 Biljana Plavsic, former Bosnian Serb president, left for the Hague to appear before the UN war crimes tribunal over her role in the 1992-1995 war.
2005 Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
2007 Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
2015 The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation. Elsewhere, a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market, Hypercacher, in the eastern Paris suburb of Vincennes.

(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)

GAME OF THE DAY