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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_World_Snooker_Championship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>