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Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor

The 1985 World Snooker Championship final was a snooker match played on the weekend of 27–28 April 1985 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the final of the 1985 World Snooker Championship between defending world champion Steve Davis and 1979 runner-up Dennis Taylor (both pictured). The best-of-35-frames match was split into four sessions; Taylor was never ahead during the match, but tied at 15–15 and 17–17. The deciding frame culminated with several shots on the final ball – the black – which Taylor potted to win his only world championship. The final climaxed in the early hours of 29 April and was viewed by 18.5 million people in the UK, as of 2020 the record for a post-midnight television audience. The total match time of 14 hours and 50 minutes is the longest recorded for a best-of-35-frames match. The match is one of the most famous snooker matches of all time and part of the reason for the surge in the sport's popularity in the 1980s and 1990s. (Full article...)

Marcello Petacci

• ... that Marcello Petacci (pictured) was riddled with bullets after trying to escape execution by throwing himself into Lake Como?
• ... that choreographer George Balanchine did not tell the dancers in Duo Concertant there would be a blackout in the middle of the ballet until the morning of the premiere?
• ... that when Rosa M. Morris scored 130 percent in her mathematics exams, a special case had to be made at graduation to avoid handicapping other students?
• ... that the first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Godfrey Hounsfield in 1972?
• ... that Katja Meier, the Saxon state minister of justice, was criticised for the anti-police lyrics of the punk band in which she played as a teenager?
• ... that a new-age music format called "The Breeze" was a ratings failure for Nebraska radio station KLMS, causing a precipitous decline in listenership?
• ... that William A. Radford assisted in producing a 1700-page encyclopedia about cement?
• ... that the roof of the TU Delft Library is used as a sledding hill during the winter?

Chloé Zhao

• At the Academy Awards, Nomadland (writer and director Chloé Zhao pictured) wins three awards, including Best Picture.
• A fire at a COVID-19 hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, kills at least 82 people.
• The wreckage of KRI Nanggala, an Indonesian Navy submarine, is found in the Bali Sea, and all 53 people on board are confirmed dead.
• The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment on the Perseverance rover produces oxygen from carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere.

April 27: Koningsdag in the Netherlands

Magellan's death at the Battle of Mactan

• 395 – Aelia Eudoxia married Byzantine emperor Arcadius without the knowledge or consent of Rufinus, the Praetorian prefect who had intended for his own daughter to wed the emperor.
• 1521 – Filipino natives led by chieftain Lapulapu killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan (depicted).
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British Army regulars defeated Patriot militias in the Battle of Ridgefield, galvanizing resistance in the Connecticut Colony.
• 1904 – Chris Watson became the first prime minister of Australia from the Labour Party.