QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Pierre Charles Saint Amant (1800-29.10.1872), one of the best French chess players of the middle of the 19^th century. Renewed the edition of the magazine Le Palamede in 1842 and run until the end of 1847.
Eugene Delmar (1841-22.02. 1909), one of the leading US Masters of the 19th century and the four-time New York State champion.
Arvid Kubbel 1889-11.01.1938), Russian chess player and composer of chess problems and endgame studies.
Gustaf Nyholm (27.01.1888-1957),  Swedish Master who was the first Swedish Champion and a Nordic Champion.
Constantin Ionescu (1958), Romanian Grandmaster who was Romanian Champion in 1999.
Alexander Shabalov (1967), American Grandmaster who was a four-time winner of the United States Chess Championship born in Latvia.
Abbasifar, Hasan (1972); Iranian Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.
Andre Cheron (1895 12.09.1980), French player and composer of over 300 studies. He won the France championship in 1926–27–29.
Bojan Vuckovic (1980), Serbian Grandmandmaster and  International Solving Grandmaster.
Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa El Nehyan (1982). UAE chess philanthropist who is the President of Asian Chess Association since 2010.
Alexander Riazantsev (1985), Russian Grandmaster and national coach.
Anna S Corke (1990), English Women Grandmaster born in Hongkong who won the HK championship 4 times. In 2014 she left chess to started a Ph.D. program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.

DEATHS

Francis Lee (1857-1909) British Master and writer.
Janos Balogh(10.09.1892-1980), Hungarian–Romanian International Master of Correspondence.

CHESS EVENTS

1958 Mikhail Tal of USSR won the 4^th Interzonal Tournament in Portoroz, Slovenia with 13.5/21. The fifteen-year-old American Bobby Fischer made his debut on the international scene making his last norm before to be awarded the title of Grandmaster.
1991 The team of the USSR won the World U-26 Team Championship in Maringa, Brazil with 33 points.
2007 In Teheran, Iran, Tania Sachdev of India became the Asian Women’s Champion.

WORLD EVENTS

490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies, defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece.
1848 Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1890 Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
1919 Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers’ Party (later the Nazi Party).
1923 Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1958 Jack Kilby demonstrates the first integrated circuit.
1962 President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
1974 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, ‘Messiah’ of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.
1980 Military coup in Turkey.
1990 The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification.

(Source: Wikipedia)