QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Hermann von Gottschall 1862-07.3.1933), a German player, author and the editor of the  Deutsche Schachzeitung.
Moritz Henneberger (1878-07.03.1959), a Swiss Master and chess composer who was 5 times Swiss Champion.
Vsevolod Rauzer (1908-29.12.1941), a Soviet-Ukrainian Master, Champion of Ukraine in 1933, known for his great contributions of the Sicilian Defence.
Olga Ignatieva,  Olga, (1920-1999), a Soviet Woman Grandmaster who was married to Soviet Grandmaster David Bronstein.
John Shaw (1968), a Scottish Grandmaster and author who was 3 times Champion of Scotland.
Krasimir Rusev, (1983), a Bulgarian Grandmaster.
Abhijeet Gupta (1989), an Indian Grandmaster who won three titles of the Commonwealth Chess Champion.

CHESS EVENTS

1960 The 14^th Olympiad is taking place in Leipzig, East Germany. For the first time, R. Fischer played board one of the US team and M. Tal, as the new World Champion, played board one of the USSR team.
1960 InHungary, Janos Flesh set up a new blindfold display record in Budapest. Against 52 opponents, Flesch had White on 40 boards and Black on 12, finishing up with 31 wins, 18 draws, and 3 losses in 12 hours.
1974 Between October 23, 1973, when he lost a game in a Soviet championship, and October 16, 1974, when he lost to Kirov at the Novi Sad tournament, Mikhail Tal had a string of 95 tournament games without a loss (46 wins and 49 draws).
2005 The new World Champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria received a standing ovation at the awards ceremony of the World Championship tournament in San Luis, Argentina.

WORLD EVENTS

690 Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.
1384 Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1923 The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1934 Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1939 World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1944 Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker’s first steady foil, debuts in the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz’s cartoon.
1949 Nikos Zachariadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece, announces a “temporary cease-fire”, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.
1964 China detonates its first nuclear weapon.
1968 Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1973 Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1978 Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1984 Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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