Chess master Bobby Fischer dies
His emergence in the 70s prompted my father to teach his four sons chess. At least one didn't take to the instruction all that well. Interesting connection to Pasadena, "he tithed the Worldwide Church of God, a fringe church" in the 1960s. "For a time, Mr. Fischer lived in Pasadena, Calif., the church’s home base, or nearby Los Angeles, where he was said to spend his time replaying chess games and reading Nazi literature. There were reports that he was destitute, though the state of Mr. Fischer’s finances was never very clear."