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1868 Pramatha Chowdhury (1868-1946), litterateur, essayist, and one of the architects of Chalita Bhasa, was born in Jessore.
Google | Pramatha Chowdhury Timeline | 1913 The Bangladesh National Museum established under the name 'the Dacca Museum' was formally inaugurated.
Google | Bangladesh National Museum Timeline | 1913 The Governor of Bengal, lord Carmichael, formally inaugurated Dhaka Museum in a room of the then Secretariat Building.
Google | Dhaka Museum Timeline | 1941 Rabindranath Tagor, Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music, died in Calcutta, British India.
Google | Rabindranath Tagore Timeline | 1947 Mohammad Ali Jinnah flew from Delhi to Karachi and took office seven days later as the first governor general of the new Dominion of Pakistan.
Google | Bangladesh Pakistan Relations Timeline | 1984 Rear Admiral Mahbub Ali Khan, former Naval Chief of the country, died in Dhaka.
Google | Rear Admiral Mahbub Ali Khan Timeline | 1986 Shahadat Hossain (Kazi Shahadat Hossain Rajib), Test cricketer, was born in Dhaka.
Google | Kazi Shahadat Hossain Rajib Timeline | 2004 Santosh Gupta, eminent journalist, writer and columnist died at age 79 in Dhaka.
Google | Santosh Gupta Timeline | 2005 Debinash Sangma, footballer, a star defender of the 1960s playing for Mohammedan Sporting Club, Victoria and Wanderers, died at the age of 75.
Google | Debinash Sangma Timeline | 2006 Finance Minister M Saifur Rahman & US Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert M Kimmitt signed the Protocol of Exchange of Instruments of Ratification of the Convention to avoid double taxation & prevent income tax evasion ending 3 decades of negotiations.
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