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The 2022 World Snooker Championship was a professional tournament held from 16 April to 2 May 2022 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England, its 46th consecutive year there. Broadcast by the BBC in the UK and by others elsewhere, the championship had £2,395,000 in prizes, with £500,000 for the winner. Ronnie O'Sullivan (pictured) made his 30th Crucible appearance, equalling Steve Davis's record. Reaching a record 20th quarter-final and a record 13th semi-final, O'Sullivan defeated Judd Trump 18–13 to equal Stephen Hendry's record of seven world titles. Aged 46 years and 148 days, he became the oldest world champion in snooker history, beating Ray Reardon, who was aged 45 years and 203 days in 1978. The main stage had a record 109 century breaks, with 16 by Mark Williams, who equalled Hendry's 2002 record. Neil Robertson made the 12th maximum break at the Crucible, against Jack Lisowski in the second round. Mark Selby and Yan Bingtao's 85-minute frame was the longest in Crucible history. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that Vladimir Cavarnali, who edited a communist children's magazine (cover pictured), had previously been a member of the fascist Crusade of Romanianism?
- ... that the Koryo-saram newspaper Koryo Ilbo was once known as Lenin's Banner and is the oldest active Korean newspaper outside of Korea?
- ... that Rufina Bazlova has used traditional embroidery to depict protests in Belarus?
- ... that an episode of Sesame Street featuring the Wicked Witch of the West only aired once because it terrified children?
- ... that after bailing out of his aircraft over France, Stanley Browne was able to evade any German soldiers searching for him with the help of local villagers?
- ... that in 2020, COVID-19–related articles across all Wikipedias received more than 579 million pageviews?
- ... that defenceman Roman Josi is the Nashville Predators single-season points leader?
- ... that shōnen manga protagonists often possess "insanely spiky hair"?
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- Ding Liren (pictured) defeats Ian Nepomniachtchi to win the World Chess Championship.
- In Kenya, at least 109 people are found in mass graves and more than 350 others are missing after the leader of a cult allegedly instructed members to starve themselves.
- In the London Marathon, Sifan Hassan wins the women's race, while Kelvin Kiptum wins the men's event and breaks the course record.
On this day
May 1: Beltane and Samhain in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Maharashtra Day in Maharashtra, India (1960); Loyalty Day in the United States
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- 305 – Diocletian and Maximian retired as co-rulers of the Roman Empire, being succeeded by Galerius and Constantius Chlorus.
- 1625 – Dutch–Portuguese War: Portuguese and Spanish forces recaptured the Brazilian city of Bahia, which had previously been captured by the Dutch Republic.
- 1931 – New York City's Empire State Building, at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.
- 1941 – Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.
- 1945 – Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.
- Paul I Šubić of Bribir (d. 1312)
- Adelsteen Normann (b. 1848)
- Aram Khachaturian (d. 1978)
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The Battle of Tory Island was a naval action fought on 12 October 1798 off the north coast of Ireland. The battle contested an attempted French invasion of Donegal in support of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with a French squadron under Jean-Baptiste-François Bompart facing a hastily assembled Royal Navy blockade squadron under Sir John Borlase Warren. Bompart's force had been dispatched from Brest the month before with orders to reinforce a French army under Jean Humbert which had landed two months earlier. Unbeknown to Bompart's force, Humbert's army and the rebellion as a whole had been defeated by the British Army a week before Bompart departed France. Bompart's squadron too was woefully understrength consisting of only a single ship of the line and eight frigates carrying 3,000 men. (Full list...)
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The Divje Babe flute, also sometimes called the tidldibab or Neanderthal flute, is the femur of a cave bear, which is pierced by spaced holes similar to those found on a flute. The object was unearthed at Divje Babe I, a cave site near Cerkno in northwestern Slovenia in 1995, during systematic archaeological excavations in the area. It is possible that it was made by Neanderthals as a form of musical instrument, although this theory is debated by scientists: some argue that the holes in the bone were artificially made by Neanderthals, while others say they were made by carnivores. If confirmed as a musical instrument, it would be the oldest-known Paleolithic flute and musical instrument. The object is now in the collection of the National Museum of Slovenia in Ljubljana. Photograph credit: Petar Milošević
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