QUOTE OF THE DAY

DEATHS

Josef Juchli (11.01.1847-1905), Swiss chess composer.
Vladimir Makogonov (27.08.1904- 1993), Soviet-Azerbaijani Grandmaster who was a five-time champion of Azerbaijan from 1947 to 1952.
Arnold Denker(20.02.1914-2005), an honorary Grandmaster and writer who was U.S. Champion in 1944 and 1946.

WORLD EVENTS

366 The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
533 Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
1492 Reconquista: the Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders.
1839 French photographic pioneer Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre took the first photograph of the moon.
1861  Frederik Willem IV (b.1795), king of Prussia (1840-61) and Germany (1849-61), died.
1929  The United States and Canada reached agreement on joint action to preserve Niagara Falls.
1936  The 1st electron tube to enable night vision was described in St Louis, Mo.
1941  The Andrews Sisters recorded what became a big hit for them, the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
1947  Mahatma Gandhi began a march for peace in East-Bengali.
1949 Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
1955 Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated.
1960 Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1963 Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory.

GAME OF THE DAY