The 2019 Tour Championship was a professional snooker ranking
tournament, held from 19 to 24 March 2019 in Llandudno, Wales.
Organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association,
it was the 18th ranking event of the 2018–19 season. The top eight
players based on the single-year ranking list took part in a single
elimination tournament. Each match was played over a minimum of two
sessions, the final as a best-of-25-frames match over two days. In a
repeat of the Players Championship final two weeks prior, Ronnie
O'Sullivan (pictured) met Neil Robertson in the final. O'Sullivan won
the match 13–11 to claim his 36th ranking title, equalling Stephen
Hendry's record of ranking event wins. This was O'Sullivan's third
ranking title win of the season. On winning the tournament, O'Sullivan
returned to the world number one position for the first time since
May 2010, and became the oldest world number one since Ray Reardon in
1983.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Tour_Championship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1760:
The chapel of the newly constructed Castellania in Valletta,
Malta, was consecrated.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellania_%28Valletta%29>
1859:
Sponsored by Greek businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first
modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zappas_Olympics>
1935:
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was officially established,
with Manuel L. Quezon inaugurated as its president (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_the_Philippines>
1988:
Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat
proclaimed the creation of the State of Palestine as "the state of
Palestinians wherever they may be".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Palestine>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
unwearied:
1. Not wearied, not tired.
2. Never tiring; tireless.
3. Not stopping; persistent, relentless.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unwearied>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage
to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of
others.
--Johann Kaspar Lavater
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Kaspar_Lavater>