30 October	1976	MOUNTJOY WINS WORLD AMATEUR TITLE In Johannesburg, South Africa, Doug Mountjoy had a crushing 11-1 victory over Malta's Paul Mifsud to win the World Amateur Championship.
31 October	1929	EDDIE CHARLTON BORN One of the most familiar faces around in the early days of televised snooker, Eddie Charlton, was born in Merewether, New South Wales. Read his full career profile.
	1940	BOMB LANDS ON THURSTON'S A German bomb land on Thurston's in Leicester Square which has hosted eight world championship finals. The building was restored and re-opened as Leicester Square Hall in 1947 where four more world championships and a number of other big tournament s were held.
	1982	CANADA CLINCH WORLD TEAM TITLE. Cliff Thorburn, Kirk Stevens and Bill Werbeniuk won the State Express World Team Classic for Canada. In the final,at the Hexagon in Reading, they beat the holders, England, this time represented by Steve Davis, Jimmy White and Tony Knowles, 4-2.
	1993	EBDON'S FIRST RANKING TITLE In only his third season on the tour, Peter Ebdon claimed his first ranking title beating Ken Doherty 9-6 to win the Skoda Grand Prix at the Hexagon.
	2002	MARK DAVIS SEALS WEMBLEY SPOT. Mark Davis won the last ever Benson & Hedges Championship to clinch a place in the final B&H sponsored Masters at Wembley. In the final at the Towers Club in Mansfield he beat Mehmet Husnu 9-6.
1 November	1920	TED LOWE MBE BORN. Ted was general manager of the Leicester Square Hall from 1947 to 1955 and he became the BBC's first regular commentator for snooker. Later it was he who devised the format for Pot Black and later convinced the BBC to provide extensive coverage of the world championship. Known as 'Whispering Ted' due to the style he had developed when his commentaries were delivered from close to the table rather than a sound-proof box, he became the voice of snooker to millions. Ted died aged 90 in May 2011.
	1981	FIRST WORLD TEAM TITLE FOR ENGLAND England ended Wales' monopoly of the event when Steve Davis, John Spencer and David Taylor won the State Express World Team Classic title at the Hexagon in Reading. They beat the familiar Welsh trio of Reardon, Griffiths and Mountjoy 4-3 in the final.
2 November	1985	TAYLOR WINS LATEST CLASH WITH DAVIS! The ongoing saga of Dennis Taylor - Steve Davis finals continued with the two meeting in the final of the non-ranking Canadian Masters in Toronto. This time, Dennis, who had lost to Steve in the Grand Prix final a week earlier, got the better of his rival with a 9-5 victory.
	1997	DOHERTY WINS IN MALTA Ken Doherty won the fourth running of the Rothmans Malta Grand Prix at the Jerma Palace Hotel in Marsascala. He beat John Higgins 7-5 in the final of this non-ranking event.
	2002	STEVE MIFSUD IS WORLD AMATEUR CHAMPION In Cairo, the IBSF World Amateur Championship went to Australia's Steve Mifsud who beat Tim English of Wales 11-6 in the final.
3 November	1978	REARDON IS 'CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS' Boxing promoter, Mike Barrett, followed his first snooker venture, the Dry Blackthorn Cup, with the Champion of Champions tournament. Again it was a four-man event held on a single day at Wembley Conference Centre. World champion, Ray Reardon beat Alex Higgins 11-9 in the final.
	1989	HENDRY WINS DUBAI CLASSIC. The first ranking tournament to be held in the Middle East, the Dubai Duty Free Classic, was won by Stephen Hendry. In the final, at the Al Nasr Stadium, he beat Doug Mountjoy 9-2.
	1990	HENDRY RETAINS ASIAN OPEN TITLE Stephen Hendry won the 555 Asian Open for the second year running with a 9-3 victory over Dennis Taylor at the GDTV Studios in Guangzhou. This was the first time a ranking event had been held in China.
4 November	1984	AGRAWAL WINS WORLD AMATEUR TITLE. In Dublin, Omprakash Agrawal of India became the first player from outside the UK to win the World Amateur Championship. He beat the defending champion, Terry Parsons of Wales, 11-7 in the final.
	1999	BURROWS MAKES A MAXIMUM Karl Burrows made a 147, the 34th on the all-time list, in the 3rd round of the Benson & Hedges Championship at the Willie Thorne Snooker Centre in Malvern in a match against Adrian Rosa.
5 November	1988	JIMMY WHITE TAKES CANADIAN TITLE. The first ever overseas world ranking event, and the only one ever to be held in North America, the BCE Canadian Masters in Toronto, was won by Jimmy White who beat Steve Davis 9-4 in the final.
	1992	SMALL VICTORY EARNS WEMBLEY SLOT The first tournament to be classified as a ‘minor ranking’ event, the Benson & Hedges Championship at the Masters Club in Glasgow, was won by Chris Small whose 9-1 victory over Alan McManus also earned him a place in the B&H Masters at Wembley.
	1995	EBDON WINS MALTA GRAND PRIX. The second Rothmans Malta Grand Prix went to Peter Ebdon. He took the title with a 7-4 defeat of John Higgins in the final at the Jerma Palace Hotel in Marsascala.
	1997	HICKS ON THE WAY TO WEMBLEY Andy Hicks booked his place in the B&H Masters at Wembley with a 9-6 victory over Paul Davies to win the Benson & Hedges Championship at the Willie Thorne Snooker Centre in Malvern.

31 October	ADITYA MEHTA is 26 Aditya was runner up in the 2008 Asian Championship and was subsequently awarded a place on the 2008/9 main tour to become the first Indian for five years to play on the tour. Unfortunately he lost his place at the end of that season but has returned this season.
2 November	DARREN LIMBURG is 36. Darren joined the tour in 1992/3 and climbed the rankings steadily till he lost his place at the end of the 1996/7 season when the numbers were reduced. He was back in 1998/9 but was unable to consolidate his place. His best ranking position was 172.
3 November	ANTONY BOLSOVER is 39. Antony was part of the mass intake of new professionals for the 1991/2 season. Between then and 2002/3 he spent a total of ten seasons on the ranking tour in three spells. He reached the last sixteen in two ranking events and had a best ranking of 68.
4 November	EUGENE HUGHES is 56. Eugene was on the ranking tour for 16 seasons starting in 1981/2. He was a semi finalist in the 1984 Jameson International and the 1986 BCE International and was three times a World Cup winner with Ireland. In recent years he has continued to play in senior events and won the European Seniors title in 2001. His best ranking position was 20th.
5 November	COLIN MORTON is 51. Colin had six seasons on the ranking tour. He joined in 1991/2 along with more than 400 others but after they cut the numbers at the end of the 1996/7 season he never regained his place. His best ranking was 104.

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