Timeline Saturday 11 January 1941

Events on Saturday 11 January 1941 3

• 1868 – 1941 Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) Died 11 January 1941, aged 72 Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player who held the World Championship for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, longer than anyone else. He was also a mathematician and died in New York.
• 1868 – 1941 Emanuel Lasker Longest reigning World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker held the World Chess Championship for 27 years from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign in chess history. He combined psychology, positional play and tactical skill.
• 1882 – 1941 Virginia Woolf English modernist writer Woolf pioneered stream-of-consciousness writing and explored identity and time in modernist literature.