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Reanne Evans, the first woman in the tournament

The 2019 Champion of Champions was a professional snooker tournament that took place between 4 and 10 November 2019 at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, England. It was the ninth Champion of Champions event, the first of which was held in 1978. The tournament featured 16 participants who had won World Snooker events throughout the prior snooker season. The 2019 Women's World Champion (pictured) competed at the tournament for the first time. As an invitational event, the Champion of Champions tournament carried no world-ranking points. Ronnie O'Sullivan was the defending champion having defeated Kyren Wilson 10–9 in the final of the 2018 event. O'Sullivan lost 5–6 to Neil Robertson in the semi-finals. Robertson defeated reigning world champion Judd Trump 10–9 in the final to win the championship, having required foul shots in the penultimate frame to avoid losing the match. (Full article...)

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In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays to win the World Series (MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto pictured).
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November 4: National Unity and Armed Forces Day in Italy

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1780 – Túpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru.
1924 – In a special election in Wyoming, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to be elected as a governor in the United States.
1970 – Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
2010 – In the first aviation incident involving an Airbus A380, Qantas Flight 32 suffered an uncontained engine failure and made an emergency landing at Changi Airport in Singapore with no casualties.

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Linaria vulgaris, also known as the common toadflax, yellow toadflax, or butter-and-eggs, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, native to Europe, Siberia and Central Asia. It has also been introduced to and is now common in North America. It is a perennial plant with short spreading roots, a stem height of 15 to 90 centimetres (6 to 35 inches), and fine glaucous blue-green leaves. The flowers are pale yellow with an orange lower tip, borne in dense terminal racemes from mid-summer to mid-autumn, and visited mostly by bumblebees. Its fruit is a globose capsule containing numerous small seeds. The species is most commonly found as a wildflower, toadflax, but is sometimes cultivated as a cut flower or in children's gardens. These L. vulgaris flowers were photographed in Keila, Estonia. This picture was focus-stacked from 30 separate images.

Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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