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1948 Before Jinnah left Dhaka, he delivered a speech on radio reasserting his 'Urdu-only' policy. Google | Bengali Language Movement Timeline | 1971 Archer Blood, a US diplomat based in Dhaka, sent his first cable described what he termed a 'selective genocide,' alerted President Richard Nixon and national security adviser Henry Kissinger to what was happening and urged them to pressure Gen. Yahya Khan, the Pakistani dictator, to stop the killing. Google | Archer Blood Timeline | 1984 Shakib Khan (originally named Masud Rana), popular Bangladeshi film actor, was born in Dhaka. Google | Shakib Khan Timeline | 2002 Tofail Ahmed (1920-2002), educationist, folklorist and collector of folk artifacts, died. Google | Tofail Ahmed Timeline | 2007 SoftExpo 2007, five-day long software exposition organized by Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) kicks off at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in Dhaka; the theme of the expo was 'Turning Our People into Resource'. Google | BASIS Timeline | 2019 Fire broke out ion the eighth floor of the 22-storey FR Tower building at the commercial Banani area of Dhaka city around 1:00 pm BST. It caused 25 deaths and more than 70 others were injured. Google | Fire in Bangladesh Timeline |