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1949 Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani held the first meeting of Awami League at the Armanitola ground. Google | Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani Timeline | 1987 The longest general strike in Bangladesh's history to-date, a 54-hour campaign led by the Workers-Employees United Council (Sramik Karmachari Oikkiya Parishad), ended after 11 people were killed and 700 injured in street violence between demonstrators and security forces. Google | Bangladesh Timeline |