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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
8/1/1992Narasimha Rao, PM, dedicates Vizag Steel Plant to the nation.
7/30/1995Notification issued for the constitution of Jharkhand Autonomous District Council.
2/18/1931Swraj Paul, Indian and British industrialist and multi-millionaire (Caparo), was born.
5/5/1906Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
11/29/2000India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad.
1/18/1999Gul Panag (20) from Delhi was crowned Femina Miss India Universe at the Miss India 1999 beauty pageant in Pune.
7/4/2000Volvo's Environmental Prize went to Prof. Amulya K. N. Reddy of India and three others for their work on ''How the world's energy resources can be made to suffice as the population grows''.
3/19/1973Mine explosion in Bihar kills 47.
1/18/2000India and the US resume talks to narrow their differences on the CTBT.
9/1/1999Mr. Justice Arijit Pasayat, appointed Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court.