The CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Semi Completo de CMLL in Spanish) is a professional wrestling championship promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) since 1991. As with other professional wrestling championships, it is not an actual competition, but is won according to a scripted ending to a match, and sometimes awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline. The light heavyweight division in Mexico ranges between 92 kg (203 lb) and 97 kg (214 lb), but the weight limits are not always strictly adhered to. Because CMLL puts more emphasis on the lower weight classes, this division is considered more important in Mexico; the heavyweight division is considered the most important championship by most promotions outside of Mexico. The current CMLL World Light Heavyweight Champion in his first reign is La Máscara (pictured), who won it by defeating Ángel de Oro in April 2016. La Máscara is the 15th overall champion and the 13th wrestler to officially hold the championship. The title has been vacated only once since its creation in 1991.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1386:

Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, forcing King Bagrat V to convert to Islam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur%27s_invasions_of_Georgia

1894:

First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the city of Lüshunkou, the Japanese Second Army killed more than 1,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(China)

1950:

Two trains collided near Valemount, British Columbia, Canada; the subsequent trial catapulted future Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker into the political limelight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoe_River_train_crash

1996:

A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, killed 33 people and wounded 69 others when the building collapsed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Vidal_explosion

2006:

Lebanese politician Pierre Amine Gemayel, a vocal critic of Syria's military presence in and political domination of Lebanon, was assassinated in Jdeideh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Amine_Gemayel

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happy: 1. Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous. 2. Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious. 3. Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something). 4. Of acts, speech, etc.: appropriate, apt, felicitous. 5. (as a suffix to a noun) Favoring or inclined to use. 6. (rare) Of persons, especially when referring to their ability to express themselves (often followed by at or in): dexterous, ready, skilful. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/happy

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Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so.   --Voltaire https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire