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1928 Syed Mohammad Ali better known as SM Ali, founder editor and publisher of The Daily Star, was born in Sylhet.
Google | Syed Mohammad Ali Timeline | 1955 Bangla Academy founded as the immediate result of the 1952 Language Movement.
Google | Bengali Language Movement Timeline | 1963 Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, one of the great leaders of undivided India, who dedicated his whole life for the welfare of the people by upholding democracy above all, dies.
Google | Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy Timeline | 1969 Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman tells a meeting on H.S. Suhrawardy's death anniversary that henceforth East Pakistan would be known as Bangladesh.
Google | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Timeline | 1971 Battle of Basantar starts in which Indians attack and take over Pakistani territory opposite Jammu.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 2003 An anti-Ahamadiya group, Khatme Nabuat Andolon Samannay Committee (KNASC), issues ultimatum to the Government to declare Ahamadiyas as 'non-Muslims.'
Google | Education in Bangladesh Timeline | 2004 Ln. Clement F. Kusiak, President of the International Association of Lions Clubs, arrives on a three-day official visit to Bangladesh.
Google | Clement F. Kusiak Timeline | 2005 Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect of the US-based Microsoft Corporation, arrived in Dhaka along with his wife Melinda on his maiden visit to Bangladesh.
Google | Bill Gates Timeline | 2010 A Bangladesh-flagged cargo ship MV Jahan Moni came under attack and seized by Somalian pirates as it was approaching the Lakshadweep Islands, around 300 kilometers away from the Indian coast.
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