QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Jean Taubenhaus (1850-14.09.1919), a Polish–born French Master and author who was the operator of Mephisto at the Paris Exposition in 1889.
Oscar Chajes (1873-28.02.1928), an American Master born in Ukraine. He was the last person to defeat Jose Capablanca, at New York 1916, prior to Capablanca’s eight-year undefeated stretch from 1916 to 1924.
Sandor Bela (1919-31.03.1978) an Hungarian Internatinal Master who was Hungarian Champion in 1953.
Henryka (Henrijeta) Konarkowska – Sokolov (1938), a Polish–Serbian Woman Grandmaster who won few national title in Poland and in Yugoslavia.
Jan Timman (1951), the best Dutch Grandmaster for lmore than two decades who was also the best Western Player in the 1980’s. He lost the FIDE World Championhip final match to A. Karpov in 1993.
Victor Bologan (1971), The best Moldovian Grandmaster for decades, writer and coach who is living in Qatar.
Richard, Bitoon, (1975), Filipino Grandmaster who won the 2015 Philippines Chess Championship.
Lakos, Nikoletta Lakos (1978), an Hunagarian Woman Grandmaster.
Kirill Brizgalin (1982), Russian Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Ernst Falkbeer (27.06.1819-1885), an Austrian Master born in Czechoslovakia. HE is also known to have introduced the Falkbeer Countergambit.
Paul Saladin Leonhardt (13.11.1877-1934), a German Master born in Poland.

CHESS EVENTS

1994 The FIDE GA elected F. Campomanes as President.  Mohamed Ghobash (UAE) as Deputy President, G. Makropoulos (GRE) as General Secretary and Willy Iclicki (BEL) as Treasurer.
2009 14.12 In in Khanty Mansiysk Russia, 41-year-old Boris Gelfand of Israel won the World Cup 2009. He beat Ruslan Ponomariov in the tie breaks 7-5.

WORLD EVENTS

1832 The first streetcar went into operation in New York City, NY. The vehicle was horse-drawn and had room for 30 people.
1851 Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” was first published in the U.S.
1881 Charles J. Guiteau’s trial began for the assassination of U.S. President Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.
1914 The Ottoman Empire declares war on Britain, France, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro during the early months of World War I.
1918 Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
1922 The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1965 Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
1967 American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world’s first laser.
1972 Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.
1979 Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
1982 Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
1991 Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
2012 The game Candy Crush Saga was released as a mobile app for smartphones.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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