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Historical Event on 3/5/1999

Geet Sethi won the 1999 World matchplay billiards championship in Midsomer Norton.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri was posthumously awarded the ""Bharat Ratna"".
9/6/1903Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon tea in retaliation for British import policies in Moscow.
9/6/1903Sikh Guru Har Govindji, the sixth sikh guru, was born. He fashioned a military role for the Sikhs.
12/10/1978Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace prize.
4/27/1907Fearing uprising in Punjab, British arm volunteers.
8/6/1998SriKrishna Commission report was tabled by the Maharashtra government. It was rejected by the ruling alliance whom it heavily indicted.
2/10/1910Smt. Durga Bhagwat, veteran Marathi writer, was born.
7/14/1997Eleventh Presidential election with K.R.Narayanan and T.N. Seshan as candidates; 732 out of 775 MPs and 3893 out of 4058 MLAs cast their ballots.
4/15/1794Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.
3/17/1999GM Dibyendu Barua and IWM S. Vijayalakshmi (both India) won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Asian Zonal chess championship in Mumbai.