The 2021 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 17 April to 3 May at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 45th consecutive year the World Snooker Championship was held at the Crucible Theatre and was the 15th and final ranking event of the 2020–21 snooker season. It was organised by the World Snooker Tour, a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. The event was sponsored by sports betting company Betfred and broadcast by the BBC, Eurosport and Matchroom Sport. There were 128 participants in the qualifying rounds, consisting of a mix of professional and invited amateur players. The main stage of the tournament featured 32 players: the top 16 players from the snooker world rankings and an additional 16 players from the qualifying rounds. It featured a total prize fund of £2,395,000 of which the winner received £500,000. It was won by Mark Selby, who defeated Shaun Murphy 18–15 in the final.
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1878:
A dust explosion at the world's largest flour mill in Minneapolis resulted in 18 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mill_Disaster
1945:
World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, the German commander of Berlin, surrendered to Soviet forces led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, ending the Battle of Berlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin
1982:
Falklands War: HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, the only ship ever to have been deliberately sunk by a nuclear submarine in battle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_General_Belgrano
2014:
Russo-Ukrainian War: Forty-eight people were killed during a confrontation between pro-Russian protesters and pro-Ukrainian unity protesters in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Odessa_clashes
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turn turtle: 1. (intransitive) Especially of a boat or ship, or some other vehicle: to turn upside down. 2. (intransitive, figuratively) To fail; to go belly up. 3. (intransitive, surfing) To roll upside down with one's surfboard (usually a longboard) to allow a wave, especially a wave that has already broken, to pass over. 4. (intransitive, historical) To capture a turtle by turning it on to its back. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turn_turtle
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Our delegation traveled to Kyiv to send an unmistakable and resounding message to the entire world: America stands firmly with Ukraine. --Nancy Pelosi https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi