QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Aaron Alexandre (1768-1850),  a Jewish German–French–English chess player, Rabbi, and writer.
Alexey Suetin (1926-10.09.2001), an Ukraine Grandmaster who was the World Senior Champion in 1996.
Herman Mattison (1894-1932), a Latvian Master, a composer of endgame studies. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 38.
Karel Opocensky (17.02.1892-1975), a Czech Grandmaster who was four-time Czech Champion.

CHESS EVENTS

1844 First match by electric telegraph  played in the USA  between Baltimore and Washington.
2009 The FIDE Executive Board approved the full membership of Mauritania Chess Federation and the readmission of the Guyana Chess Federation.

WORLD EVENTS

1632 Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Lützen is fought, the Swedes are victorious but King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden dies in the battle.
1849  A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1914 The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1938 LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
1945 UNESCO is founded.
1988 The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is “sovereign” but stops short of declaring independence.

(Source: Wikiepdia)

GAME OF THE DAY