QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Thomas Loyd (1830-07.03.1914), American composer, He was the oldest brother of Sam Loyd.
Hector Rossetto (1922-23.02.2009), Argentine Grandmaster who was a five-time the Argentine Champion.
Gheorghi Teodoru (1932), Romanian composer.
Friedrich Baumbach (1935), German International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, most famous for being the eleventh ICCF World Champion, 1983–89. Doctor in Chemical Sciences.
Amador Cespedes Rodriguez (1956), Spanish Grandmaster born in Cuba. He won three Cuban championships.
Sergey Smagin (1958), Russian Grandmaster and coach.
Peter Leko (1979) Hungarian Grandmaster, the world’s youngest grandmaster in 1994 and a two-time World Championship Candidate.
Goletiani Rusudan (1980), GEO, a Georgian-American International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She won the 2005 U.S. Women’s Chess Championship and the 2003 American Continental Women’s Chess Championship.
Evgenia Meshcheriakova (1985), Russian Women Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Elijah Williams (07.10.1809-1854), was an eminent British chess player of the mid-19th century who defeated the celebrated British player Howard Staunton in the play-off for third place at the 1851 London tournament.
Luigi Ceriani (23.01.1894-1969), Italian composer.
Mijo Udovcic (11.09.1920-1984), the first Croatian Grandmaster who jointly with Borislav Ivkov won the Yugoslav championships in 1963.

CHESS EVENTS

1849 The first wooden chess sets from Jacques with Staunton design was available in London. The first sets actually had a different pattern to the King’s Rook and King’s Knight that distinguished it from the Queen’s Rook and the Queen’s Knight.
1996 A. Shariyazdanov (RUS) and M. Lomineishvili (GEO) won the European Junior Championships for Boys and Girls in Sifolk, Hungary.
2006 In Israel, Alexander Grischuk of Russia became the first World Blitz Champion.
2012 The contract between Agon and FIDE was approved by the General Assembly by majority vote. AGON, founded by London-based entrepreneur Andrew Paulson, was granted the long-term, exclusive rights to organize and commercialize the World Chess Championship Cycle by FIDE, the Fédération Internationale des Échecs.
2012 The FIDE 0General Assembly approved the creation of an Anti-Cheating Committee to examine cheating cases and to report to the General Assembly.

WORLD EVENTS

1504 Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
1565 The Knights of Malta lift the Ottoman siege of Malta that began on May 18.
1926 Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1930 3M begins marketing Scotch transparent tape.
1941 World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union’s second-largest city, Leningrad.
1944 World War II: London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
1946 A 95.6% vote in favor of abolishing the monarchy in Bulgaria.
1962 Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
1978 Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, provoked 700-3000 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran;
1991 The Republic of Macedonia becomes independent.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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