QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Carl Walbrodt (1871-03.10.1902), a German chess master born in Amsterdam who tied for 1st with Curt von Bardeleben at Kiel 1893 (the 8th DSB Congress).
Thomas Dawson (1889-16.12.1951), a British composer who worked on the development of Fairy Chess by creating many fairy pieces and new conditions.
Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky (1894-03.09.1941), a Soviet Master, organizer, and a political activist.
Hans Rehm (1942), German composer and Grandmaster for chess composition.
Nikolai Pushkov (1946), a Russian Grandmaster, International Arbiter who won the European Senior Championship 2012.
Giorgi Bagaturov (1964), a Georgian-Armenian Grandmaster and coach who won three Georgian championships.
Rustem Dautov (1965), a German Grandmaster, author and coach born in Russia. In 2002, Dautov became a professional poker player but he is still playing regularly in the German Chess Bundesliga.
Kiril Georgiev (1965), a Bulgarian Grandmaster and six-time national champion who became the World Junior Champion in 1983.
Valerij Filippov (1975), a Russian Grandmaster.
Evgeny Alekseev (1985), a Russian Grandmaster and Russian Champion in 2006.
Romain Edouard (1990), a French Grandmaster who was joint French Champion in 2012 and European Youth Chess Championship U16 in 2006.

DEATH

Mark Taimanov (07.02.1926- 2016) a Russian Grandmaster, a  world-class concert pianist and author who won the USSR Chess Championship in 1956. Like Bent Larsen, Taimanov lost a Candidates match by 6–0 to Bobby Fischer.

CHESS EVENTS

1971 In Buenos-Aires, despite a loss in the second game, which ended a run of 20 victories, Robert Fischer did not have too many problems clearing the road to the World Championship Match. His victory over Tigran Petrosian 6½-2½ was enough to finish the match 3 games early.
1977 In Auckland, The Philippines won the 2^nd Asian Team Championship.
1985 In Luzern, The USSR won the first World Team Championship with 37.5 points. Hungary was the runner-up and England was third.

WORLD EVENTS

1811 Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1814 The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer.
1821 Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
1885 Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
1895 The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago’s Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
1912 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1919 Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons.
1943 World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet PremierJoseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
1960 Mauritania becomes independent of France.
1966 Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
1971 Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1989 Cold War: Velvet Revolution: In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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