Scottish snooker player

John Higgins

John Higgins is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 33 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the all-time list of ranking event winners. He has won four World Championships, three UK Championships and two Masters titles, for a total of nine Triple Crown titles, behind only four players. He first entered the top 16 in the 1995–96 world rankings and remained there continuously for over 29 years until September 2024, setting a record for the longest uninterrupted tenure as a top-16 player.

Born

1975

May 18

Died

Living

Era

1970s

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1975 Born

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332 Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
872 Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of 47. His first coronation was 28 years earlier, in 844, during the reign of his father Lothair I.
1096 First Crusade: Around 800 Jews are massacred in Worms, Germany.
1152 The future Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. He would become king two years later, after the death of his cousin once removed King Stephen of England.

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The world in 1975

When John arrived

april 13 Beirut bus massacre: A confrontation between Phalangist paramilitaries and PLO militia marks the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
april 17 The Cambodian Civil War ends and the Cambodian Genocide begins. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
april 19 India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
april 19 South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.

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