QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Wilhelm Hanstein (03.08. 1811.-1850), German player who was a member of the Berlin Pleiade.
Rudolf Loman (1861-05.11.1932), Dutch Master who won several unofficial Dutch championships.
Edward Boswell (1899-22.03.1960), British chess composer who was a specialist of selfmates and the president of the British Chess Problem Society.
Karl Robatsch (1928-19.09.2000), Austrian Grandmaster and botanist. The best Austrian player and champion in 1960.
Herman Suradiradja (1947-05.06.2016), the first Indonesia Grandmaster who was considered as the world’s weakest Grandmaster.
Jan Ehlvest (1962), American Grandmaster born in Estonia who won the European Junior Championship in 1982-83 and was 2nd in the World Junior Championship of 1981.
Maria Velcheva (1976), Bulgarian Woman Grandmaster who won 5 titles of Women’s Bulgarian Champion.
Anna Wagener (1976), Luxemburger Woman Grandmaster born in Moldova.
Nijat Abasov (1995), Azerbaijani Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Max Harmonist (1864-14.10.1907), German Master and a ballet dancer.

CHESS EVENTS

1998 Playing without G. Kasparov, A. Karpov or V. Kramnik, Russia was fortunate to win the 33^rd Olympiad in Elista. China won the Women’s Olympiad.
2003 In Rethymnon, Greece, NAO Paris and Internet CG Podgorica won the European Club Cup for men and women.
2005 In Saint Vincent, Italy, Tomsk-400 and NTN Tbilisi won the European Club Cup for men and women.
2006 In Fugen, Austria, Tomsk-400 and Mika Yerevan won  the European Club Cup for men and women.
2015 In Berlin, Magnus Carlsen (NOR) convincingly won the 2015 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship by concluding the event with 11½/15 points, Alexander Grischuk from Russia emerged winner of the 2015 FIDE World Blitz Chess Championship after concluding the event with 15½/21 points,

WORLD EVENTS

1884 The American inventor, George Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
1912 While campaigning in Milwaukee, the former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, is shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank,
1913 Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom’s worst coal mining accident, occurs, and it claims the lives of 439 miners.
1926 The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
1933 Nazi Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.
1943 Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp’s 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war.
1944 Linked to a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide.
1952 Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle. The resulting Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Soviet missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
1964 Leonid Brezhnev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1968 Apollo program: The first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit performed by the Apollo 7 crew.
1968 Jim Hines of the United States of America becomes the first man ever to break the so-called “ten-second barrier” in the 100-meter sprint in the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City with a time of 9.95 seconds.
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt one week after the assassination of the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
1982 U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
1994 The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords.

(Source: Wikipedia)