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Historical Event on 12/11/1958

Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/16/1997Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender.
10/5/1878First Indian circus was played by Vishnu Moreshwar Chhatre of Sangli at Mumbai.
4/3/1999India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana.
8/16/1997Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam.
11/1/1949Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India.
11/13/1917Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born.
5/6/1775Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested.
7/1/1947British Parliament passes the India Independence Act and fixes August 15 for the transfer of power.
6/28/1995Madhya Pradesh in central India is designated a `tiger state' to protect the animal from poachers and settlers.
6/30/1930George Fernandes, worker's leader and politician, was born.