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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
4/29/2000The Army institutes a high-level court of inquiry under Maj. Gen. C.B. Suku to look into the causes of the arms depot conflagration.
9/11/1889Dr. P. Subbarayan, minister and leader of the House in O.P. and President of the Cricket Control Board, was born in Tamil Nadu.
9/25/1916Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay, great litterateur, philosopher, social worker and first General Secretary of UP branch, was born at Dhankia village, Rajasthan.
9/22/1992Harshad Mehta released after 110 days in jail.
5/1/1923Under the leadership of Singaravelu Chettiar, the first May day was celebrated in India.
9/8/1953Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Premier of Kashmir, was shot at.
1/24/1948Australia all out 674 vs India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*).
4/4/1938A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself.
7/6/1917Bhandarkar Prachyavidya Sanshodhak Mandir' was established.
1/20/1997The third Test between India and South Africa ends in a draw in Johannesburg.