QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Max Lange (1832-08.12.1899) German player, composer and chief editor of the Deutsche Schachzeitung.
Aleksander Wagner (1868-1942), Polish chess correspondence master and theoretician.
Karl Lorenz Jespersen (01.08.1848-1914), Danish composer who composed 12 studies which got prizes.
Turkan Mamedjarova (1989), Azeri Women Grandmaster and sister of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.
Tal Baron, Israeli  Grandmaster.
Jose Carlos Ibarra Jerez, Jose Carlos (1985). Spanish Grandmaster who won 2 titles of Youth Champion.

DEATHS

Josef Louma (03.12. 1898-1955) died in Prague, Czech chess amateur, and political activist. FIDE Life member.

CHESS EVENTS

WORLD EVENTS

1789 The United States Department of War is established.
1940 World War II: Alsace-Lorraine is annexed by the Third Reich.
1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.
1944 IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
1960 Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
1964 Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.µ
1998 The United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.
2008 The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.

GAME OF THE DAY