QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Alexander Koblents (1916-09.12.1993), Soviet-Latvian Master, trainer, and writer. He was the main coach of M. Tal.
Federico Alliney (1920-04.10.1991), Italian chess composer.
Prof. Kurt Jungwirth (1929), Austrian chess amateur, ECU President, FIDE officer.
Vladislav Nevednichy (1969), Romania Grandmaster who played for some time for Moldova. Romanian Champion in 2008.
Natasa Bojkovic (1971), Serbian International Master and Women Grandmaster, Girls’ World Junior  Champion in 1991.
Alexander Onischuk (1975), Ukraine-born American Grandmaster who became the 2006 US Champion and was second of A. Karpov and V. Topalov.
Rashad Babaev (1981), Azeri Grandmaster.
Imre Hera (1986), Hungarian Grandmaster and author.

DEATHS

Jiri Chocolous (09.12.1856-1930), Czech chess composer, one of the fathers of the Bohemian composing school.
Alexander Ilyin – Genevsky (28.11.1894-1941)Soviet Master and organizer, one of the founders of the Soviet chess school, a writer, a military organizer, a historian and a diplomat. He died in a Nazi air raid on a barge on Lake Ladoga, Russia.

CHESS EVENTS

1963 Florian Gheorgiu (ROM) won the tile on Sonneborn-Berger at the 7^th World Junior Championship in Vrnjacka Banja, Yugoslavia.
1981 O. Cvitan (YUG) won the 20^th World Junior Championship in Mexico.
2013 In Tromso Norway, the Russian Vladimir Kramnik claimed victory in the FIDE World Cup

WORLD EVENTS

1189 Richard I of England (a.k.a. Richard “the Lionheart”) is crowned at Westminster.
1658 Richard Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of England.
1777 American Revolutionary War: During the Battle of Cooch’s Bridge, the Flag of the United States is flown in battle for the first time.
1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph.
1939 World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming theAllies.
1943 World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign the Armistice of Cassibile aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
1944 Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
1971 Qatar becomes an independent state.