QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

James Moore Hanham (1840-30.12.1930), an American Master.
Volf Bergraser 1904-1986), a Franch Correspondence Grandmaster born in Romania who was the French Champion in 1957 and 1966.
George Leathem (1953), an English chess composer.
Joannis Nikolaidis (1971), a Greek Grandmaster who won the Greek championship in 1995.
Artem Iljin (1987), a Russian Grandmaster.
Ilze Berzina (1984), a Latvian Woman Grandmaster.
Sopiko Khukhashvili (1985), a Georgian Woman Grandmaster.

DEATH

Josef Kreicik (22.01.1885-1957), an Austrian Master, problemist, journalist and author.

CHESS EVENTS

1960 Ms. Elizaveta Bykova (USSR) defeated Kira Zvorykina (USSR) 8.5-4.5 in Moscow and won the Women’s World Champion’s title for the third time.
1980 A. Chernin (USSR) and A. Brustman (POL) became European Junior Champions for Boys and Girls in Groningen.
1983 J. Ehlvest (USSR) won the 12^th European Junior Championship in Groningen.
1984 V. Salov (USSR) won the 13^th European Junior Championship in Groningen.
1989 A. Dreev (USSR) won the 18^th European Junior Championship in Arnhem.
1990 G. Serper (USSR) won the 19^th European Junior Championship held in Arnhem.

WORLD EVENTS

1762 Great Britain enters the Seven Years’ War against Spain and Naples.
1809 Louis Braille (d.1852), inventor of a universal reading system for the blind, was born in Coupvray, France.
1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1865 The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters near Wall Street in New York City.
1878 Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and becomes capital of Liberated Bulgaria in 1879.
1896 Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1948 Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1951 Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
1958 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
2001 In Sri Lanka the defense ministry announced that the civil war left 3,753 people dead in 2000, including 87 civilians.
2004 The former Soviet republic of Georgia voted for a successor to President Eduard Shevardnadze. Mikhail Saakashvili won with some 85% of the vote.
2006 Israel’s PM Ariel Sharon was rushed to an operating room to staunch a brain hemorrhage; his official powers were transferred to his deputy, Ehud Olmert.
2010 Dubai inaugurated the world’s tallest skyscraper.

(Source: Wikipedia and Timeline)

GAME OF THE DAY