The 1982 Embassy World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker
tournament that took place between 30 April and 16 May 1982 at the
Crucible Theatre, in Sheffield, England. It was the only event of the
1981–82 snooker season that carried world ranking points. Embassy, a
British cigarette company, sponsored the tournament, and the World
Professional Billiards and Snooker Association governed the organisation
of the event. It had a prize fund of £110,000, with the winner
receiving £25,000. The defending champion, Steve Davis (pictured), had
defeated Doug Mountjoy with a score of 18–12 in the previous year's
final. In 1982, Davis was the bookmaker's favourite to win the
tournament, but he lost 1–10 to Tony Knowles in the first round. Alex
Higgins won his second world title by defeating Ray Reardon 18–15 in
the final. Ten century breaks were made during the tournament, the
highest of which was a 143 scored by Willie Thorne.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_World_Snooker_Championship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1643:
A Dutch expedition arrived at the mouth of the Valdivia River,
in present-day Chile, to establish a new colony in the ruins of the
abandoned Spanish settlement of Valdivia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_expedition_to_Valdivia>
1889:
The predominantly Māori New Zealand Native football team
played the last match of their 107-game tour, the longest in rugby union
history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1888%E2%80%9389_New_Zealand_Native_football_team>
1942:
World War II: At the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, bombers
from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga sank the Japanese aircraft
carrier Ryūjō near Santa Isabel Island, contributing to an Allied
victory.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Eastern_Solomons>
1992:
Hurricane Andrew, the third-most intense Category 5 cyclone to
impact the United States in the 20th century, made landfall in southern
Florida.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Andrew>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
flutter in the dovecote:
(idiomatic) A disturbance, usually one caused within a group of people
who are generally placid and unexcited.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flutter_in_the_dovecote>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As we pass from one century to another, one millennium to one
another, we would like to think that history itself is transformed as
dramatically as the calendar. However, it rushes on, as it always did,
with two forces racing toward the future, one splendidly uniformed, the
other ragged but inspired. There is the past and its continuing
horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different,
outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political
power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons
instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by
money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since
this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and
nothing more. But there is also the bubbling of change under the
surface of obedience: the growing revulsion against endless wars … the
insistence of women all over the world that they will no longer tolerate
abuse and subordination… There is civil disobedience against the
military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially
at people of color. … It is a race in which we can all choose to
participate, or just to watch. But we should know that our choice will
help determine the outcome.
--Howard Zinn
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn>