QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Gustavus Charles Reichhelm (1839-30.11.1905) an American chess editor, analyst and problem composer.
Robert Hubner (1948), a German Grandmaster  chess writer, and papyrologist. He was one of the world’s leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Sergey Dyachkov (1976), a Russian Grandmaster.
Pavel Maletin (1986), a Russian Grandmaster who was the Russian Blitz champion in 2014.
Jianchao Zhou (1988), Chinese Grandmaster.
Nataliya Buksa (1996), an Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster who won  the Girls’ World U20 Championship in 2015.

DEATHS

Jacob Henry Sarratt (1772-1819), an English Master who was the first professional player to teach chess in England.
Cecil Purdy (27.03.1906-1979), an Australian Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess  International Master, editor and writer who won the first World Correspondence Chess championship.

CHESS EVENT

1968 J. Puig (ESP) created the Chess Journalists Association (AIPE). The 1967 Chess Oscar, an international award given annually to the best chess player, is awarded to Bent Larsen of Denmark.

WORLD EVENTS

1814 Adolphe Sax, Belgian-French instrument designer, invented the saxophone  was born (d. 1894)
1856 Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1913 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.

(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY