QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Henry Thomas Buckle (1821 – 29 May 1862), English Master. Buckle had never played a match with Staunton, because he wished to retain friendly relations with him…. Was one of the strongest chess players in 1840s. In 1843 he defeated Staunton in the match with a score +6=1
Max Marchand (1888-1957), a Dutch player who won the fourth Dutch Chess Championship at The Hague 1919.
Leonid Isaev (1899-02.09.1932), a Russian composer and columnist.
Kurt Richter was born in Berlin, (1900-29.12.1969, Berlin), a German International Master, chess composer and chess writer who played for Germany at two official and one unofficial Chess Olympiads and won two team bronze medals (1930, 1936) and one individual bronze medal (1931).
John Owen (1901-08.04.1827), an English vicar and strong amateur chess player who gave his name to an opening.
Haije Kramer (1917-11.07. 2004), a Dutch chess master, and author who represented 7 times represented the Netherlands in Chess Olympiads (1950–1962).
Yakov Nesterov (1966), Kazakh Grandmaster who is not active since 2012.
Dmitry Schneider (1984), an US International Master who is not active since 2013.
Kacper Piorun (1991), Polish Grandmaster and Solving Grandmaster who won four times the World Problem Solving Championship.

DEATHS

Marcel Lamare (14.11.1856-1937), French chess composer and columnist.

CHESS EVENTS

1991 V. Smyslov (USSR) won the first World Senior Championship in Bad Worishofen, Germany.
1992 Suzan Polgar (HUN) and Nona Ioseliani (GEO) finished first and second at the Women’s Interzonal Tournament organized in Shanghai.
1995 In Paris, the FIDE President F. Campomanes announced his resignation and by acclamation, the FIDE GA accepted the nomination of K. Ilyumzhinov until the next FIDE presidential election.
2012 IM Jens Kristiansen from Denmark and WGM Galina Strutinskaya from Russia became the  2012 FIDE World Senior Chess Champions.

WORLD EVENTS

1642 Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen’s Land (later renamed Tasmania).
1835 The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety).
1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1940 World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
1943 World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
1944 World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.
1963 In the first live, televised murder, Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is murdered two days after the assassination, by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.
1965 Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
1969 Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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