The Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of
men's One-day International cricket. The event is organised by the
sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council, with
preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament
which is held every four years. The tournament is one of the world's
largest and most viewed sporting events. The first Cricket World Cup
contest was organised in England in 1975. The finals of the Cricket
World Cup are contested by all ten Test-playing and ODI-playing
nations, together with other national teams that qualify through the
ICC Trophy competition. Australia has been the most successful of the
five teams to have won the tournament, taking three titles. The West
Indies have won twice, while India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have each
won once.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1781:
William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus, thinking it was a
comet.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus)
1881:
Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in a Nihilist plot by
Ignacy Hryniewiecki.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_II_of_Russia)
1921:
Mongolia, under the Black Baron, proclaimed its independence from
China.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Ungern_von_Sternberg)
1954:
Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap unleashed a massive artillery
barrage on the French military to begin the Battle of Dien Bien Phu,
the final battle in the First Indochina War.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu)
1996:
Dunblane massacre: A spree killer in Dunblane, Scotland shot 16
children and a teacher at a primary school to their death and then
committed suicide.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre)
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Wikiquote of the day:
Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows
itself, as something wholly different from the profane... something
sacred shows itself to us ... something of a wholly different order, a
reality that does not belong to our world, in objects that are an
integral part of our natural "profane" world. -- Mircea Eliade
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mircea_Eliade)