1993 Death Willie Mosconi, world billiards champ, dies of heart attack at 80 1959 Birthday Tony Meo, English billiards champion, snookers 1937 Birthday Raymond Ceulemans, Belgian world champ billiards player 1925 Birthday Cees de Ruyter, European champion billiards player 1922 Event New York City law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards" 1858 Event 1st U.S. billiards championship (Michael J Phelan wins in Detroit) 1722 Event Game of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
