QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Alois Nagler, (1907-30.05.1996), a Swiss player and composer.
Ludovit Lacny (1926), a Slovakian  chess composer.
Tatiana Zatulovskaya (1935), a Soviet-Israeli Woman Grandmaster who won the Women’s Seniors World Championship in 1993 and 1997 and a three-time winner of the Women’s Soviet Chess Championship.
Lajos Seres (1973), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Andrey Gutov (1978), a Russian Grandmaster and coach.
Yelena Dembo (1983), a Greek International Master and Woman Grandmaster and coach born in Russia.
Stefan Kristjansson (1982), an Icelandic Grandmaster.
Oksana Vozovic (1985), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster.
Robert Andrew Hungaski (1987), an American Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Max Lange (07.08.1832-1899), a German player, President of the German Chess Federation, chess composer and an editor of the Deutsche Schachzeitung.
Petar Trifunovic (31.10.1910-1980),  a Serbian grandmaster who played for Yugoslavia in seven Olympiads between 1935 and 1962.
Elmars Zemgalis (23.09.1923-2014), an American honorary Grandmaster and mathematician born in Latvia.

CHESS EVENTS

1997 The opening ceremony of the 1997 FIDE World Championship Swiss tournament took place in Groningen, Holland. There were 97 participants.

WORLD EVENTS

1907 King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
1941 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be “a date which will live in infamy”, after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
1941 World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies.
1955 The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
1974 A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
1980 John Lennon is murdered by Mark David Chapman in front of The Dakota in New York City.
1991 The leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1991 The Romanian Constitution is adopted in a referendum.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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