BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Dec 18

1971 Many dead bodies of University professors and intellectuals were found at Rayer Bazaar's Katasur Eitkhola in Dhaka.
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1971 The head of the Bangladesh mission in the United States today proclaimed the new nation's neutrality and asked for world recognition and economic assistance.
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1971 Buddhijibi Nidhan Tathyanusandhan Committee was instituted to investigate murders of intellectuals in the terminal days of the war of independence in 1971 by Al-Badr and Al-Shams.
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1971 After the liberation of Bangladesh the Pakistan Observer was renamed to The Observer.
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1972 Dhaka Supreme Court was inagurated by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
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1973 (Comrade) Muzaffar Ahmed (1889-1973), revolutionary and pioneer of the communist movement in India, died.
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1978 Aarong, a social enterprise chain of Bangladeshi department stores specializing in Bengali ethnic wear and handicrafts, owned by the non-profit development agency BRAC, was founded.
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1998 Sohel Chowdhury, film actor, was shot dead.
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2006 Professor Muhammad Yunus returns to Dhaka with Nobel Peace Prize.
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2010 At least 37 people died from drowning when a passenger motorboat sank after a head-on collision with a cargo boat in the Dhanu river in Jamalganj upazila of Sunamganj.
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