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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 |
| 6/6/1986 | Militant Sikhs in Amritsar call for the murder of Surjit Singh Barnala, Chief Minister of Punjab and J.F. Ribeiro, the Chief of Police. |
| 7/16/1999 | 17 are killed and over 200 injured when the Delhi bound GT Express collides with derailed wagons of a goods train near Mathura. |
| 3/31/1663 | Mir Jumla, Mughal Commander, passed away in Bihar. |
| 4/15/1992 | Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal. |
| 5/26/1885 | Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi playwright, comedy author and poet, was born. |
| 1/14/1995 | Ban on VHP re-imposed. |
| 12/25/1771 | Shah Alam II sat on the Throne of Dehli. Marathas captured Delhi and induced Shah Alam to return to Delhi after an absence of 18 years from the captial. |
| 12/25/1771 | Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Portuguese navigator, arrived in India. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Calicut, Kerala with three vessels and was the first Westerner to sail to India from Europe. |
| 5/1/1994 | Political party Shiromani Akali Dal was established. |
| 6/3/1947 | Evening newspaper 'Jay Hind' published. |
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