QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Joseph Ney Babson (1852-20.12.1929), an American chess composer. His name has remained forever associated to the task of the 4 reciprocal white and black promotions.
Carl Ahues 1883-31.12.1888), a German International Master who won the German championship in 1929.
Jacobo Bolbochan (1906-29.07.1984), an Argentine International Master who won twice the Argentine championship in 1931 and 1932.
Saturnin Limbach (1909 -11.12.1984), a Polish chess composer who was born in Ukraine.
Vitold Yakimchik, (1909-28.05.1977), a Soviet chess composer and IJC.
Nikolai Kralin (1944), a Russian composer specialized in end games studies.
Attila Czebe (1975), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Arthur Gabrielian (1982), a Russian Grandmaster.
Samuel Sevian (2000) an American Grandmaster who holds the record for the youngest ever United States Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 10 months, and 27 days.
Carlos Daniel Albornoz Cabrera (2000), a Cuban Grandmaster.

DEATH

Ashot Anastasian (16.07.1964-2016), an Armenian Grandmaster who won eight Armenian championships.

CHESS EVENTS

1985 J. Magnusson SWE won the 1^st World Junior Championship for visually handicapped in Solna, Sweden.
1993 P. Adreito won the African Junior Championship in Nairobi, Kenya.
2000 Viswanathan Anand of India beat Alexey Shirov of Spain 3½-½ and became the 15^th World Champion.

WORLD EVENTS

1799 Four thousand people attend George Washington’s funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen”.
1860 First ever inter-club football match between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England
1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1908 Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title, becomes 1st black heavyweight champion
1944 World War II: George S. Patton’s Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium.
1963 The Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “I Saw Her Standing There” are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
1972 The 33rd president of the United States, Harry S. Truman, died in Kansas City, Mo.
1982 TIME magazine’s Man of the Year, in the issue dated January 4, 1983, was a computer.
1991 The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union.
1992 Time magazine announced it had chosen President-elect Bill Clinton its 1992 “Man of the Year.”
2004 The 9.1–9.3 Mw Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest observed tsunamis follows, affecting the coastal areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia; death toll is between 230,000–280,000.
2004 Orange Revolution: The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
2009 China opens the world’s longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.

(Source: Wikipedia and onthisday.com)

GAME OF THE DAY