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Historical Event on 10/5/1993

Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/1/1971Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc.
9/5/1990Rajya Sabha approves the Prasar Bharati Bill rejecting by voice vote three motions moved by the Congress(I) to refer the Bill to a joint select committee.
7/23/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow.
7/12/1970Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
10/28/1996L.K. Advani, BJP President, appears personally for the first time in a Gwalior Court.
2/1/1894Chitravshastri, Marathi dictionary creator, was born.
10/11/1999Atal Behari Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. Two-tier ministry likely.
3/4/1925Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away.
5/2/1953Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war.
9/27/2000The Union Cabinet decides to increase the number of Padma series of awards for excellence in different fields of activities from 60 to 100.