QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Fritz Riemann (02.01.1859-1932), a German Master, Germany.
Lidia K Semenova was born in Kiev Soviet Women Grandmaster born in Ukraine who was USSR Women Champion in 1978 and a Candidate a few years later.
Hugo Spangenberg (1975), Argentine Grandmaster who was the national cham^pion in 1993.
Andrey Vovk, Andrey, (1991), Ukrainian Grandmaster. He is the brother of Andrey Vovk.

CHESS EVENTS

1974 In Moscow, the Candidates’ Final Match in Moscow between Anatoly Karpov (USSR) and Viktor Korchnoi (USSR) finished with 3-2 and 19 draws in favor of Karpov. Karpov was qualified to play R. Fischer in 1975.
1992 E. Geller (RUS) won the 2^nd World Senior Championship held in Bad Worishofen, Germany.
1996 E. Sutovsky (ISR) and Zhu Chen (CHN) won the World Junior Championships for Boys and Girls in Medellin, Colombia.
2015 At the 25^th World Seniors Championship, in the 50+ section the winners were GM Predrag Nikolic (BIH) and WGM Galina Strutinskaia (RUS). In the 65+ section, the winners were GM Vladimir Okhotnik (RUS) and GM Nona Gaprindashvili (GEO)

WORLD EVENTS

1928 The premier performance of Ravel’s Boléro takes place in Paris.
1942 World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
1943 World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
1943 Lebanon gains independence from France.
1963 In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is captured that day and charged with the murder of both the President and police officer J. D. Tippit. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President upon Kennedy’s death.
1974 The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
1975 Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
1977 British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1990 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.
1995 Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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