The 2019 WPA World Ten-ball Championship was a professional pool

tournament for the discipline of ten-ball organised by the World Pool-

Billiard Association (WPA) and CueSports International. It was the fifth

WPA World Ten-ball Championship; the previous championship was held in

2015. After plans for an event in both 2016 and 2018 to be held in

Manila fell through, a 2019 event at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in

Las Vegas as part of a three-year deal for the event to be played in the

United States was agreed. The event was held concurrently with the

Billiard Congress of America's National Ten-ball event from July 22 to

26. The event was sponsored by cue manufacturer Predator Group. The

competition featured 64 participants, selected according to world and

continental pool rankings as well as qualifying events. Ko Ping-chung

(pictured), representing Taiwan, won the event, defeating German player

Joshua Filler 10–7 in the final.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1835:

Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales in

Mexican Texas encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia at the

Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.

1942:

Second World War: HMS Curacoa was accidentally rammed and sunk

by RMS Queen Mary while escorting the liner to provide protection from

submarine attacks.

1990:

A hijacked airliner collided with two other planes while

attempting to land at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China,

killing 128 and injuring 71.

2018:

The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated

in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

jumbie:

(chiefly Caribbean) A ghost or evil spirit.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must

work to understand each other across political, religious and national

boundaries.  

--Jane Goodall

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