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Historical Event on 8/7/1985

Geet Sethi, national champion, was the third Indian to become World Amateur Billiards Champion by beating Robert Marshal of Australia.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/24/1961Government of Madras province was renamed as Tamil Nadu.
11/22/1915Mohandas Gandhi returns to India.
2/4/1944Japanese attack Indian Seventh Army at Burma
11/20/1947Parliament gives Indian government censorship powers over press at New Delhi.
7/4/1995Rajan Pillai, business tycoon and biscuit king of India, who was convicted by a Singapore court for multi-million dollar fraud, was arrested in New Delhi.
4/4/1996Supreme Court rules that political parties without audited accounts cannot take advantage of an election law that exempts tax expenditure on candidates.
3/5/1991Congress threatens to withdraw support to the minority government of Chandrasekhar on the issue of police surveillance in Rajiv Gandhi's residence.
1/9/1854Govind Vasudev Kanitkar, noted poem writier, novelist and translator, was born.
2/3/1988INS Chakra was inducted in the Indian Navy when the first Soviet SSN Victor 1 class nuclear propelled submarine and India joined the maritime nuclear powers.
8/3/1984Bomb attack at Madras airport claims 32 lives.