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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
4/8/1991Prafulla Kumar Mahanta,Assam CM, steps down as party chief.
3/25/1989India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation.
11/12/1999A 50-member BJP ministry led by Ram Prakash Gupta is sworn in Uttar Pradesh.
3/18/1944Subhash Chandra Bose formed Azad Hind Fauz and took control of Kohima-Imphal.
10/18/1995President's Rule imposed in UP and the State Assembly put in suspended animation.
4/26/1945Virinchirpuram Krishnamurthi Ramaswamy, cricketer (Indian Test umpire stood in 1996 World Cup), was born in Madras.
2/14/1996Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn.
12/14/1999India lost to Australia by 285 runs in Adelaide in the first cricket Test.
2/1/1967Victor Paramjyoti, famous Indian music director, composer and critic, passed away.
11/11/2000Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985.