QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Hugo Suechting (1874-27.12.1916), German Master who won the 8th DSB Congress in 1893.
Viacheslav Ragozin (1908-11.03.1962) , Soviet Grandmaster, International Arbiter and a World Correspondence Chess Champion.
Jan Hendrik Marwitz (1915-06.12.1991), Dutch endgame study composer and author.
Arthur Bisguier (1929), US Grandmaster who won the 1954 United States Chess Championship title.
Roman Toran (1931-01.10.2005), Spanish International Master, author and journalist who was Spanish champion in 1951 and 1953.
Swend Hamann Danish international Master who was Danish Champion in 1972.
Hichem Hamdouchi (1972), French Grandmaster born in Marocco. Eleven times Moroccan Champion and French Champion, he is coaching in Qatar.
Solomon Kenny (1979), South African Grandmaster.
Susanto Megaranto (1987), Indonesian Grandmaster who became the youngest Indonesian GM ever at 17.
Batkhuyag Munguntuul (1987),  Mongolian international Master and Woman Grandmaster.

DEATH

Octav Troianescu (04.02.1916-1980), Romanian International Master who was 5 times Romanian Champion.

CHESS EVENTS

1972 The FIDE GA approved Iraq, Jamaica, the Netherlands Antilles and Trinidad & Tobago as full members of FIDE.
1986 In Leningrad, G. Kasparov retained the World Championship title after beating A. Karpov 12,5-11,5.
1988 J. Lautier FRA and A. Galliamova USSR won the World Junior Championships for Boys and Girls in Sydney, Australia.
1988 Xie Jun CHN won the Asian under-20 Championship for Girls held in Sydney.
1999 The GA approved the modification of its statutes as requested by the IOC. FIDE is ready to create a Medical Commission to deal with possible drug problems.
2000 L. Bruzon from Cuba became the World Junior Champion in Yerevan, Armenia.

WORLD EVENTS

1600 San Marino adopts its written constitution.
1860 Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
1912 First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1973 Greek military junta of 1967–74: Junta strongman George Papadopoulos appoints Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister of Greece with the task to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.
2005 The 7.6 Mw Kashmir earthquake strikes with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.

(Source: Wikipedia)