QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Frederick Gamage (1882-26.12.1956), an American chess composer.
Ernst Grunfeld 1883-03.04.1962),  an Austrian Master and writer specializing in opening theory. He was for a brief period after the First World War one of the strongest chess players in the world.
Salomon Flohr (1908-18.07.1983), a leading Czech and later Soviet chess Grandmaster, Arbiter and author  born in Ukraine.
Olita Rause (1962), a Latvian International Master, a Woman Grandmaster and a  International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1999).
Evgeny Bareev (1966), a former top Russia Grandmaster and Russian Champion who is now living and playing for Canada.
Tibor Fogarasi (1969), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Renier Gonzalez (1972), an American Grandmaster born in Cuba.
Tatiana Kostiuk (1982), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster living in France who was the European U18 champion in 2004.
Eesha Karavade (1987), an Indian Woman Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Arnoldo Ellerman (12.01.1893-1969), an Argentine chess composer.

CHESS EVENTS

1964 The FIDE GA recognized the ICCF as an exclusive Association authorized to organize International Correspondence Chess Championship tournaments under the general conditions stipulated by the 1961 FIDE Congress.
1964 The International Braille Chess Association was affiliated to FIDE.
1990 The second half  of the match Kasparov-Karpov for the World Championship title started in Lyon, France.
1993 21.11 Mark Taimanov (RUS) won the 3^rd World Senior Championship held in Bad Wildbad, Germany, while T. Zatulovskaya RUS won the Women’s Championship.

WORLD EVENTS

164 BC Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1783 In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
1789 North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
1877 Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1922 Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
1986 Iran–Contra affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
1995 The Dayton Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement is formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year.
2006 Anti-Syrian Lebanese politician and government minister Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.

(Source: Wikipedia)

THE GAME OF THE DAY