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Historical Event on 10/3/1978

Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/1/1894Bhim Sen Sachar, freedom fighter, leader and Chief Minister of Punjab, was born.
9/14/1774Bentik, first Governor General of India, was born.
5/1/1913Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born.
12/1/1991Stone laid for the Sanskrit University at Kaladi, the birthplace of Adi Sankara.
1/10/1932Gandhi and his wife are arrested by the Indian authorities.
7/5/1916Indian Women's University was established at Hingne near Poona by Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve with just four students. After 1920, it was renamed as Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Indian Women's University.
12/11/1971The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent.
11/5/1994Russi Modi appointed Chairman of Air India and Indian Airlines.
6/8/1897Manindranath Basu, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born.
9/2/1992Delhi High Court indicts CBI in Bofors case; FIR and letters rogatory quashed.