QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Raymond Gevers (1882 – 11.05.1954), Belgian chess composer.
Georgy Lisitsin (1909-20.03.1972), Soviet International Master and author.
Reuben Fine (1914-26.03.1993), American Grandmaster, author and psychoanalyst. One of the strongest players of the world before WWII who could never challenge A. Alekhine for the world title.
Alla Kushnir (1941-02.08.2013), Israeli Woman Grandmaster born in Soviet-Union who was Women’s World Championship Challenger in 1965, 1969 and 1972.
Gregory Kaidanov (1959), American Grandmaster born in Ukraine who won the 1992 World Open in Philadelphia, and the 1992 U.S Open.
Jessica Schmidt (1979), German Woman Grandmaster who was German Women’s Champion in 2001.
Ruslan Ponomariov (1983), Ukrainian grandmaster who, in 2002, beat Vassily Ivanchuk in the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship by a score of 4.5-2.5 to become FIDE world champion at the age of eighteen.
Nguyen Huynh Minh, Huy (1987), Vietnamese Grandmaster who was a member of the national team in 2016.

DEATHS

Charles Fox (09.11.1866-1935), British chess composer.
Nicolai Kopayev (11.01.1914-1978), Soviet player, endgame composer and author. died, Russia.

CHESS EVENTS

1998 In Elista, FIDE GA approved the reelection of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov as President.
2004 In Izmir, the teams of NAO Paris and NTN Tbilisi won the European Club Cup for men and women.
2009 In FYROM, Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov and Spartak Vidnoe became  the winners of the European Club Cup for men and women.
2011 In Antalya Turkey, the 14-year-old Sumiya Bilguun from Mongolia became the 2011 World Amateur Chess Champion.

WORLD EVENTS

1634 – The Burchardi flood: “The second Grote Mandrenke” killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1727 – George II and Caroline of Ansbach are crowned King and Queen of Great Britain.
1811 – Inventor John Stevens’ boat, the Juliana, begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey).
1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia’s oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.
1899 – Second Boer War begins: In South Africa, a war between the United Kingdom and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free Stateerupts.
1954 – First Indochina War: The Viet Minh take control of North Vietnam.
1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele andWalter Cunningham aboard.
1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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