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Historical Event on 12/3/1956

Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story writer, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1839Medical College Hospital in Calcutta having only 20 beds was opened for male patients .
1/1/1988The Officers Training School (OTS) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy. Besides training Indian nationals, 74 cadets from Sri Lanka have also been trained at the OTA.
12/28/1981Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.
11/19/1978Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for second time.
1/14/1851Peshwa Bajirao Raghunath, last Peshwa of Marathas, passed away at Brahmawart.
7/16/1996Narasimha Rao moves Delhi High Court seeking quashing of the summons issued against him by Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case.
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
7/8/1996Mathematical Olympiad was held in Mumbai - the first time in India (from 08-17, 1996).
12/1/1947India all out for 58 vs Australia at Gabba.
10/19/1920Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born.