The 2022 World Snooker Championship was a professional tournament held
from 16 April to 2 May 2022 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield,
England, its 46th consecutive year there. Broadcast by the BBC in the UK
and by others elsewhere, the championship had £2,395,000 in prizes,
with £500,000 for the winner. Ronnie O'Sullivan (pictured) made his
30th Crucible appearance, equalling Steve Davis's record. Reaching a
record 20th quarter-final and a record 13th semi-final, O'Sullivan
defeated Judd Trump 18–13 to equal Stephen Hendry's record of seven
world titles. Aged 46 years and 148 days, he became the oldest world
champion in snooker history, beating Ray Reardon, who was aged 45 years
and 203 days in 1978. The main stage had a record 109 century breaks,
with 16 by Mark Williams, who equalled Hendry's 2002 record. Neil
Robertson made the 12th maximum break at the Crucible, against Jack
Lisowski in the second round. Mark Selby and Yan Bingtao's 85-minute
frame was the longest in Crucible history.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_World_Snooker_Championship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1625:
Dutch–Portuguese War: Portuguese and Spanish forces
recaptured the Brazilian city of Salvador, which had previously been
captured by the Dutch Republic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapture_of_Salvador>
1931:
New York City's Empire State Building, at the time the tallest
building in the world, opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building>
1941:
Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director
Orson Welles, premiered.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane>
1945:
Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a
successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the
advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Elephant_Point>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dovetail:
1. The tail of a dove (family Columbidae); also, something having the
shape of a dove's tail.
2. (chiefly woodworking, often attributively)
3. In full dovetail joint: a type of joint where adjoining components
are fastened by multiple tenons cut into wedge shapes resembling a
dove's tail, which interlock with mortises having corresponding shapes.
4. A tenon cut into a wedge shape resembling a dove's tail so that it
interlocks with a mortise having a corresponding shape in a dovetail
joint.
5. (heraldry) A line resembling a dovetail joint (sense 2.1).
6. (transitive)
7. (chiefly woodworking) To unite (components) with a dovetail (noun
sense 2.1) or similar joint.
8. (figuratively)
9. To combine or fit (things) together well.
10. (computing) To interweave (a number of algorithms or subprograms) so
that they can be run more or less simultaneously.
11. (intransitive, figuratively) Of several things: to combine or fit
together well.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dovetail>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives
a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.
--Joseph Addison
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison>
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