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Historical Event on 10/3/1992
Geet Sethi beats holder Mike Russel of Britain (2529-718) to become the first Indian to win the World Professional Billiards championship in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/1/1998 | Bharat Ratna is awarded to Dr. A.J.P. Abdul Kalam, Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, and Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi, Carnatic musician. The award is also conferred posthumously on film director Satyajit Ray, freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali and former Prime Minister Gulzari Lal Nanda. |
| 11/9/1977 | Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away. |
| 11/9/1977 | Babur won the first Panipat battle and entered in North India's capital Agra. |
| 3/8/1999 | The President formally revokes the proclamation imposing Central rule in Bihar after this was decided by the Union Cabinet earlier in the day. |
| 6/1/1916 | Lokmanya Tilak roared ''Freedom is by birthright'' at Ahmednagar. |
| 7/4/1997 | Mumbai High Court directs BMC to reinstate G.R. Khairnar, the iconoclastic Dy. Municipal Commissioner suspended in `94 and removed from service in October 1996. |
| 9/11/1987 | Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature, passed away. |
| 6/20/1957 | Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died. |
| 8/2/1919 | Bharat Bhushan Agrawal, famous poet and winner of Sahitya Academy Award, was born. |
| 9/1/1947 | Indian Standard Time was adopted. |
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