QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Gerald Hertneck (1963), a German Grandmaster and coach.
Meng-Kong Wong (1963), a Singapore Grandmaster who was Asian Junior Champion in 1979.
Curt Hansen (1964), a Danish Grandmaster who won the European Junior Championship in 1982 and hold 6 titles of Danmark Champion.
Andrey Zhigalko (1985), a Belarus Grandmaster (1985) who won three Belarusian Chess Championships, the 2003 European Under-14 Championship, and the 2006 European Under-18 Championship.
Miranda Mikadze (1989), a Georgian Woman Grandmaster.
Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2004), an Uzbekistani chess prodigy who became Grandmaster in 2018. World Under-8 Champion in 2012 and Asian U10 Champion in 2014.

DEATH

Frank Anderson, (03.01.1928-1980), a Canadian International Master and writer who won two titles of national champion in 1953 and 1955.

CHESS EVENTS

1939 For the 7^th time in a row Vera Menchik who played this time under the citizenship of England, won the Women’s World Chess Championship with the score 18 out of 19.
2011 Hou Yifan from China won the Shenzhen FIDE Women’s Grand Prix.
2014 In Linares, Spain, Alex Bachmann (PAR) became the 2014 Iberoamericano Champion.

WORLD EVENTS

1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.
1714 George I, the first Hanoverian king, arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1st.
1739 The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
1793 The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 day, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed
1851 First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1872 King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1922 Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1934 The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
1961 U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1962 Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1964 North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1976 Mao Zedong’s funeral takes place in Beijing
1981 Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1982 Christian militia killed six hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.
1990 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

(Source: Wikiepdia)

GAME OF THE DAY