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Historical Event on 3/10/1954

The history of 104 HU, the most prestigious and the oldest Helicopter Unit of the IAF, is studded with more than four decades of glorious past and yeomen service rendered to the country. One-O-Four was raised as Helicopter Flight at Palam on 10th March 1954.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/4/1986Helicoptor Corporation of India established.
10/4/1986Husain Quli, the new Governor of Bengal, defeated the rebels and put them to fight. Daud was captured and put to death.
9/20/1942Kanak Lata Barua, a yound child who tried to host the national flag at Goupur police station in Assam with the help of 500 people, was shot by the police station incharge.
8/25/1965Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89), was born in Delhi.
3/4/1991Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha presents mid-term budget, cut in food and fertiliser subsidy, amounting to Rs. 934 crore, proposed.
4/7/2000The Delhi police unearth a multicrore cricket betting and match- fixing racket involving five South African cricketers, including the captain Hansie Cronje. A Delhi-based Indian operator Rajesh Kalra put behind bars.
6/7/2000Telecom Commission approves the free phone bonanza for all telecom employees announced by the Union Communications Minister Ram Vilas Paswan.
10/19/1929Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born.
12/27/1977The Congress party splits into two factions, one supporting and one opposing Indira Gandhi.
7/25/1995India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95).