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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
8/11/1961Dadra and Nagar Haweli declared as Union Territory States.
3/23/1947Lord Mountbatten was sent as a Viceroy to India who was designated to free India.
1/30/1996Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.
11/20/1907Railroad workers strike in India.
8/3/1886Maithili Sharan Gupta, first man of modern Hindi poetry and literature, writer, patriot and social worker, was born at Chirgaon village near Jhansi.
8/27/1978Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland.
11/7/1995Lukose Leelamma at Pune sets record for 10,000m (Women) in 34.33.50.
9/18/1615Thomas Roe presented himself at Jahangir's court in Ajmer. He left India on February 17, 1618.
1/9/1946Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, famous Hindi poet, Gujarati litterateur, writer, headmaster and innovator of duel meaning phrases, passed away.
12/30/1929The first inland Indian air mail left New Delhi this morning for Jodhpur, Hyderabad, and Karachi to connect at Karachi with the air service to London.