BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Apr 18

1856 The Dhaka News, now defunct weekly periodical, was first published.
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1930 The Chittagong armoury raid took place to raid the armoury of police and auxiliary forces from the Chittagong armoury in Bengal province of British India, by armed revolutionaries led by Surya Sen.
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1971 First ever flag of newly independent Bangladesh was raised in a foreign mission in Calcutta, India.
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1971 Battle of Daruin, Comilla and Battle of Rangamati-Mahalchari waterway, Chittagong Hill Tracts.
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1973 Bangladesh government revoked the citizenship of Ghulam Azam and thirty-eight other collaborators of Pakistan Army.
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2001 Border fighting between Bangladesh and India left 16 Indian and 2 Bangladeshi soldiers dead.
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2007 Bangladesh's military-backed emergency government exiled opposition leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed as it stepped up a massive purge of the crisis-wracked country's political hierarchy.
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