QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Paul Johner (1887- 25-10.1938), Swiss Master and musician who won sixth times the Swiss championship.
Janos Balogh(1892-12.09.1980), Hungarian–Romanian International Master of Correspondence.
Rosendo Balinas (1941-24.09.1998), was a  Filipino Grandmaster who was a lawyer by profession, as well as a chess writer and journalist.
Werner Hug (1952), Swiss International Master who won the World Junior Champion title in 1971.
Valery Popov (1974), Russian Grandmaster and coach.
Victor Ciocaltea (16.01.1932-1983), Romanian Grandmaster who won 8 titles of Romanian champion. He was one of the few who defeated R. Fischer.
Mauricio Flores Rios (1990), Chilean Grandmaster who was the Chilean Champion in 2005 and 2007

DEATHS

Alexey Suetin (16.11.1926-2001), Russian Grandmaster, coach and chess journalist who won the 1996 Senior World Championship.

CHESS EVENTS

1950 In Dubrovnik, the team of Yugoslavia won the 9^th Olympiad with 45½ points.
1952 The FIDE GA welcomed the appearance of the first double number of FIDE Review, containing news about FIDE and its work.
1965 Bogdan Kurajica YUG won the 8^th World Junior Championship in Barcelona, Spain.
1984 The opening of the World Championship Match between Anatoly Karpov USSR and Garry Kasparov USSR with a prize fund of SFR 1,000,000 took place in Moscow.

WORLD EVENTS

1823 Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
1846 Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1919 Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia andYugoslavia.
1943 World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
1960 At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1972 The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
1974 Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1976 A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977 Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
2002 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.

(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY