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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
12/14/1990Vijay Karan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 01/06/92).
7/13/1913Tulsi Prasad Khaitan, great industrialist, was born in Chandi village, Bihar .
8/18/1990Pandit Narayan Chaturvedi, senior Hindi litterateur, died.
6/27/2000The Clinton administration rejects a demand by 21 U.S. Congressmen for declaring India a terrorist state in the wake of attacks on Christian priests and churches.
7/1/1999Two leaders of Hindu Makkal Katchi (HMK) are detained under National Security Act (NSA).
12/14/1999The Prime Minister informs the Lok Sabha that Ram Prakash Gupta has denied the remarks on temple construction.
3/22/1947India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
12/6/1990VHP-sponsored 'karseva' in Ayodhya passes off peacefully.
2/14/1929Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
10/27/1987Vijay Merchant, cricketer (Test average 47.72, 1st-class avg 71), died.