The 1985 World Snooker Championship final was a snooker match played on
the weekend of 27–28 April 1985 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield,
England. It was the final of the 1985 World Snooker Championship between
defending world champion Steve Davis and 1979 runner-up Dennis Taylor
(both pictured). The best-of-35-frames match was split into four
sessions; Taylor was never ahead during the match, but tied at 17–17.
The deciding frame culminated with several shots on the final ball –
the black – which Taylor potted to win his only world championship.
The final climaxed in the early hours of 29 April and was viewed by
18.5 million people in the UK, as of 2020 the record for a post-
midnight television audience. The total match time of 14 hours and
50 minutes is the longest recorded for a best-of-35-frames match. The
match is one of the most famous snooker matches of all time and part of
the reason for the surge in the sport's popularity in the 1980s and
1990s.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_World_Snooker_Championship_final>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1521:
Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapulapu killed Portuguese
explorer Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan (depicted).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapulapu>
1777:
American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated
Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing resistance in
the Connecticut Colony.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ridgefield>
1904:
Chris Watson became the first prime minister of Australia from
the Labour Party.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Watson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
recrudescence:
1. The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something
(often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary
abatement or suppression.
2. (medicine, by extension) The acute recurrence of a disease, or its
symptoms, after a period of improvement.
3. (botany) The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recrudescence>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
My confidence in General Grant was not entirely due to the
brilliant military successes achieved by him, but there was a moral as
well as military basis for my faith in him. He had shown his single-
mindedness and superiority to popular prejudice by his prompt
cooperation with President Lincoln in his policy of employing colored
troops, and his order commanding his soldiers to treat such troops with
due respect. In this way he proved himself to be not only a wise
general, but a great man.
--Frederick Douglass
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass>