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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 |
| 6/18/1995 | The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi. |
| 3/21/1997 | Jockey Vasant Shinde retires. |
| 4/24/1944 | Shivprasad Gupta, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, passed away. |
| 11/27/1972 | Bhutto reports the release of 616 Indian prisoners captured in the Indian-Pakistani dispute at Pakistan. |
| 1/12/1990 | Upper age limit for Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years. |
| 8/1/1953 | Bombay Government decides to abolish ''jagirs'' in merged areas. |
| 3/2/1996 | Malabar University (Kerala) comes into being. |
| 2/19/1891 | Amrita Bazaar Patrika became a daily newspaper. |
| 2/18/1974 | Daniel Moynihan, US ambassador to India, presents $2,046,700,000 cheque. |
| 7/4/1912 | Pandit Nivrittibuwa Sarnaik, singer of 'Jaypur Gharana', was born. |
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