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Historical Event on 8/2/1987

Geet Sethi retains the World Amateur Billiards title.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/16/1997Queen Elizabeth visits Kalakshetra where she witnesses Bharatanatyam show and film shooting at MGR Film City, Taramani in Chennai. She also goes to Kancheepuram and Sriperumbudur (Rajiv Gandhi memorial).
7/7/196294 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay.
11/5/2000The Interpol issues a ""look-out'' notice for the five persons and two of their accomplices, who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in December 1999
8/1/1882Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.).
11/1/1961First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748.
5/8/1959Dalai Lama will not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China.
7/24/1783Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, was born at Carcas.
9/14/1971Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died.
12/19/1961Goa was liberated after Portuguese surrendered to the Indian troops.
5/18/1933Gandhiji commences at noon 21 days' fast for self-purification; released unconditionally at 9 p.m.