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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
12/30/1974Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi.
2/2/1970Bertrand Rusell, great philosopher, mathematician, author and chairmain of the Indian League, died at Merioneth, North Wales at the age of 98.
3/8/1864Hari Narayan Apte, a well known Marathi writer who popularised social and historical themes in his novels, was born. He presided over the 8th Marathi Sahitya Sammelen in 1912.
1/23/1961Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films.
11/12/1946Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya died at the age of 85.
1/10/199324th International Film Festival of India opens in New Delhi.
10/13/1999Atal Krishna Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India.
12/15/1976Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit
5/26/1739Afghanistan was separated from the Indian empire as a result of a treaty signed between Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah and Nadir Shah.
9/28/1965India-Pakistan hostility erupts into a war lead by Pakistan.