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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 |
| 6/22/1880 | Nilmoni Phukan, greatest social reformer, prolific writer of Assam, poet, editor, journalist and lawyer, was born at Dibrugarh, Assam. |
| 11/3/1984 | Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated. |
| 12/25/1999 | An Indian Airlines aircraft with 187 passengers on board is hijacked. The plane was going from Katmandu to New Delhi. It lands near Abu Dhabi after several hops. |
| 7/12/1957 | Sahajada Karim became Aga Khan. |
| 9/18/1972 | India becomes the top film producer of the world with 433 feature films made in 1971. |
| 9/8/1962 | Chinese army infiltrated in the north-east border of India exceeding the Mac-Mahon line (Tibet-India boundary). This was the first ocassion of Chinese infiltration. |
| 2/14/1914 | Vinaya Kumar Parashar, journalist and social worker, was born at Hemgir, M.P. |
| 11/14/1993 | Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian and social worker, passed away. |
| 6/17/1994 | Twelve opposition legislators in Sikkim resign. |
| 11/9/1962 | Dhondo Keshav Karve, social reformer and educationist Bharat Ratna awardee, died. |
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