BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Mar 08

1971 Civil disobedience movement was launched. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman asked for black flags to be raised on roof-tops for a week.
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1987 The Chalna Port Authority was renamed to Mongla Port Authority.
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2020 The first three COVID-19 Coronavirus cases in Bangladesh were confirmed. The infected included two men that recently returned from Italy and a female relative. On the same day, the government decided to scale down the grand ceremony planned for Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's birth centenary on 17 March.
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