Every day becomes history for tomorrow. And on every date something historical has happened. On 7 August 1606, Shakespeare's play Macbeth was first staged for King James I. On the other hand, if there is mention of the game of billiards in India, then it is bound to be the talk of Geet Sethi. Geet Sriram Sethi won the title on this day in 1985 by defeating Bob Marshall of Australia in the World Amateur Billiards Championship. This match, which lasted for about eight hours between the two, was discussed for a long time. Apart from this, what happened today is special, let us tell you:-
Important Events of 7 August
1606: Shakespeare's play Macbeth is first staged for King James
1753: Britain Museum was established
1905: Indian National Congress called for boycott of British goods
1941: Nobel laureate Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore died
1944: Construction of a huge machine 51 feet long, 8 feet high and weighing five tons in the name of the first calculator
1947: Electricity and transport system formally transferred to Mumbai Municipal Corporation
1957: US conducts nuclear test at Nevada test site
1960: Ivory Coast, a country on the continent of Africa, got independence from the authority of France.
1985: Geet Sethi won the World Amateur Billiards Championship
1990: US launches Operation Desert Shield by deploying forces in Saudi Arabia
1998: Terrorist attacks on US embassies in the capitals of Kenya and Tanzania kill more than 200 people
2018: M. Karunanidhi, a strong face of DMK politics in the country, passed away
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