The Cortland County Clerk's Office issues and receives all applications and amendments for pistol permits. In Cortland County, Judge William F. Ames and Judge Julie A. Campbell are the licensing officers of handguns and licensing is completely within their discretion.
In 1998 Hikaru Nakamura (born Dec 9, 1987) bacame America's youngest master at 10 years, 79 days. In 2001 he became America's youngest International Master at age 13. The first list of grandmasters appeared in 1950, published by FIDE. There were 27 chess players nominated as the first grandmasters.
Bobby Fischer born. On this day in 1943, Bobby Fischer is born in Chicago, Illinois. Fischer went on to become the only American ever to win the chess world championship. He also became well-known for his strange behavior, which paranoia and anti-Semitic and anti-American rants, in spite of his Jewish background and American upbringing.