The 2020 Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held
from 12 to 19 January 2020 at Alexandra Palace in London, England. It
was the 46th Masters tournament, and the second of three Triple Crown
events in the 2019–20 snooker season, following the 2019 UK
Championship and preceding the 2020 World Snooker Championship. The
knockout tournament involved the top 16 players in the snooker world
rankings. Organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker
Association, it was broadcast by the BBC and Eurosport in Europe. Judd
Trump was the defending champion, but was eliminated in the first round.
The previous year's finalist, Ronnie O'Sullivan, chose not to
participate, thus giving his entry to Ali Carter, who reached the final
(pictured) but lost to Stuart Bingham. Claiming his first Masters title,
Bingham became the oldest Masters champion, at the age of 43 years and
243 days, beating the previous record set by Ray Reardon in 1976.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Masters_%28snooker%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1511:
War of the League of Cambrai: Troops led by Pope Julius II
captured Mirandola after a brief siege.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mirandola_%281511%29>
1920:
The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors
of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union>
1972:
The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS
officer Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living
in Peru.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Barbie>
2012:
The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut
down by the FBI.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
chambers:
1. (archaic) A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a
residential apartment.
2. (by extension, law)
3. Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for
hearings that do not need to be held in open court.
4. (Britain) Originally, a set of rooms at an Inn of Court used by one
or more barristers as an office and residence; now, the office of one or
more barristers in any building.
5. Euphemistic form of chamber pot (“a container used for defecation and
urination”); also, synonym of potty (“a small (chiefly plastic) pot used
by children for defecation and urination when toilet-training”).
6. (Britain, historical) In full king's chambers: parts of the sea next
to the coast of England and Wales delimited by imaginary lines
connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive
jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the
territorial sea. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chambers>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Mobilization of the world must outpace the next military
mobilization of our joint enemy. The supplying of Ukraine with air
defense systems must outpace Russia’s next missile attacks. The
supplies of Western tanks must outpace another invasion of Russian
tanks. The restoration of security and peace in Ukraine must outpace
Russia’s attack on security and peace in other countries. A tribunal
for military crimes must prevent new ones.
--Volodymyr Zelenskyy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy>
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