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Historical Event on 8/7/1985
Geet Sethi, national champion, was the third Indian to become World Amateur Billiards Champion by beating Robert Marshal of Australia.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/21/2000 | Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee. |
| 6/26/1888 | Ghanshyam Das Birla, great freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Pilani. |
| 8/20/1988 | Earthquake measuring 6.5 on Richter Scale strikes India and Nepal. Thousands killed. |
| 12/11/1881 | Subramania Bharati was born at Ettaiyapuram. |
| 1/26/1988 | A Post Office was established at Dakshin Gangotri under the Goa Postal Division. (11-7-89). |
| 10/15/1946 | Victor Banerjee, actor (A Passage to India), was born in Calcutta, India. |
| 1/7/1685 | Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born. |
| 10/28/1977 | Shantiprasad Jain, industrialist, died. |
| 1/30/1949 | Night Airmail Services was inaugurated. |
| 7/4/1933 | Mahatma Gandhi sentenced to one year imprisonment. |
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