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Crucible Theatre, venue of the tournament

The 2023 World Snooker Championship took place from 15 April to 1 May 2023 at the Crucible Theatre (pictured) in Sheffield, England. The qualifying rounds produced a 115 break by Ng On-yee, the highest by a woman in the tournament's history. The defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan made a record 31st appearance at the tournament's main stage, surpassing the 30 appearances by Steve Davis, but he lost 10–13 in the quarter-finals to Belgian player Luca Brecel. Si Jiahui became the first Crucible debutant to reach the semi-finals since Andy Hicks at the 1995 event. Brecel came from 5–14 behind to defeat Si 17–15, the first player to win a match at the Crucible after trailing by nine frames. Brecel went on to defeat Mark Selby 18–15 in the final, becoming the sport's first world champion from mainland Europe. Two maximum breaks were made at the main stage, one by Kyren Wilson in the first round and the other by Selby, who became the first player to make a 147 in a world final. (Full article...)

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  在黎巴嫩，以色列對真主黨的空襲造成至少 558 人死亡，超過 1,835 人受傷。
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  國際象棋奧林匹克競賽以印度贏得公開賽和女子項目冠軍而告終。
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  Anura Kumara Dissanayake（如圖）當選斯裡蘭卡總統。
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金鹿的複製品

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  西元前 46 年 – 尤利烏斯·凱撒 （Julius Caesar） 將羅馬的維納斯·吉內特裡克斯神廟 （Venus Genetrix） 獻給了他家族的神話祖先維納斯。
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  1580 年 – 英國探險家法蘭西斯·德雷克 （Francis Drake） 的大帆船金鹿號（如圖複製品）駛入普利茅斯，完成了他的環球航行。
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  1928 年 – 中國國民政府採用 Gwoyeu Romatzyh 作為普通話羅馬化的官方系統。
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  1983 年 – 冷戰：蘇聯中校斯坦尼斯拉夫·彼得羅夫 （Stanislav Petrov） 通過將似乎表明美國導彈襲擊即將到來的虛假警報信號識別出來，避免了一場潛在的核戰爭。
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  2010 年 – 蘇格蘭援助工作者琳達·諾格羅夫 （Linda Norgrove） 和三名阿富汗同事在阿富汗庫納爾省被塔利班成員綁架。