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1929 Jahanara Imam (1929-1994), Bangladeshi writer and political activist, was born in Murshidabad, India.
Google | Jaharna Imam Timeline | 1994 April 29 - May 3, Severe cyclonic storm hits offshore islands and chars of Cox's Bazar; maximum wind speed of 210 km/hr; people killed about 400, cattle lost about 8,000.
Google | Natural Disasters in Bangladesh Timeline | 2002 A ferry on the Meghna River capsized with some 400 passengers traveling from Dhaka to southern Patuakhali. Early reports had only 100 survivors. The ferry was raised and the death toll increased to 370.
Google | Open Timeline | 2004 At least 5 women were crushed to death and dozens were injured when a false fire alarm caused about 4,000 workers to rush for the exits of a garment factory.
Google | Fire in Bangladesh Timeline | 2004 Anwar Choudhury arrives in Dhaka to become the first British high commissioner to Bangladesh to be born in the country. Choudhury was born in Sylhet district which produced many of the Bangladeshi immigrants to Britain.
Google | Anwar Choudhury Timeline | 2007 Muhammad Yunus declared that he had decided to abandon his political plans thus abandoning previously announced Nagorik Shakti political party following a meeting with the head of the interim government, Fakhruddin Ahmed.
Google | Muhammad Yunus Timeline | 2009 Atiur Rahman, renowned economist, banker and professor, took over as the 10th Governor of Bangladesh Bank.
Google | Bangladesh Bank Timeline | 2010 M Innas Ali (1916–2010), Bangladeshi physicist, founding chairman of Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, died in Dhaka at age 93.
Google | M Innas Ali Timeline | 2021 A speedboat coming from Munshiganj District crashed into a sand-laden bulk carrier killing at least 26 people.
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