QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Albert Rothschild (1844-11.02.1911), an Austrian Banker and chess patron who sponsored many tournaments in Vienna.
Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (12.09.1800- 1872), was a leading French chess master and an editor of one of the major chess periodicals of that time:  Le Palamède.
Nathan Divinsky (1925-17.06.2012), a Canadian mathematician, university professor, chess master, chess writer, and editor of Canadian Chess Chat for many years.
Xu Yuhua (1976), a Chinese Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who won the Women’s World Chess Championship knock-out tournament in 2006.
Evgeny Sharapov(1981), an Ukrainian Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Alberto Fidi, (16.07 1882-1958), an Italian player, FIDE Life Member.

CHESS EVENTS

1966 The FIDE GA approved the reelection of Folke Rogard (SWE) as President.
2008 The Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand defended his title of  World Chess Champion in Bonn, Germany, without any problem against V. Kramnik (RUS).   The main sponsor was Evonik Industries AG and the prize money was 1½ million Euro.

WORLD EVENTS

1787 Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
1863 Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.
1918 The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
1922 King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
1923 Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1929 The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of ’29 or “Black Tuesday”, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
1956 Suez Crisis begins: Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal.
1956 The Tangier Protocol is signed: The international city Tangier is reintegrated into Morocco.
1960 In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1964 The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.
2013 Turkey opens a sea tunnel connecting Europe and Asia across the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul.

(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY