QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

E.Grosdemange (1878), French problemist. composer,  died in Commercy, France.
Karel Kondelik (04.11.1848-1905), Czech composer.
Alexander Kazantsev (1906), a famous science fiction writer and a chess composer, International Judge of Chess Compositions (1956), International Master for Chess Compositions (1975).
Martin Christoffel S(1922-03.04.2001), Swiss player who won four times the Swiss championship.
Mario Bertok (1929-20.08.2008), Croatian International Mater and journalist. Bertok was reported missing after a few hours of swimming.
Leonid Isaev (24.11.1899-1932), Russian composer.
Victor Erdos (1987), English Grandmaster.
Kateryna Areshchenko,  UKR, (1985), Ukraine Women grandmaster and coach.

CHESS EVENTS

1961 Bruno Parma YUG won the 6^th World Junior Championship in The Hague, Netherlands.
1983 The team of USSR won the World U26 Team Championship in Chicago.
1985 The second match for the world title between A. Karpov and G. Kasparov started in Moscow with a prize fund of SFR 1.600,000.

WORLD EVENTS

1192 The Treaty of Jaffa is signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, leading to the end of the Third Crusade.
1666 The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral.
1752 Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
1807 The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet toNapoleon.
1870 Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
1945 World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
1945 Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1992 An earthquake in Nicaragua kills at least 116 people.
1998 Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY