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1890 Premankur Atarthi (1890-1964), novelist, journalist, and film director, was born in Faridpur.
Google | Premankur Atarthi Timeline | 1900 M Osman Ali (1900-1971), a founding member of Bangladesh Awami League party and a member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly, was born in Jamalkandi, Daudkandi, Comilla, Bengal Presidency, British India.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 1901 Abdul Jabbar Khan, politician, High Court judge and former speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, was born in Baherchar Khudrakathi of Babuganj in Barisal.
Google | Abdul Jabbar Khan Timeline | 1903 Jasimuddin (1903-1976), poet and litterateur, was born in Tambulkhana in Faridpur.
Google | Jasimuddin Timeline | 1907 Govinda Chandra Dev, popularly known as Dr. G. C. Dev or Dr. Dev, renowned professor, one of the most learned philosophers and intellectuals of Bangladesh, was born in the village of Lauta in Biyani Bazar, Sylhet.
Google | Govinda Chandra Dev Timeline | 1918 Mohammad Abdul Haque (1918-1996), bureaucrat, politician and writer, was born in village Kamalpur in Jakiganj thana of Sylhet district.
Google | Mohammad Abdul Haque Timeline | 1919 Bulbul Chowdhury (1919-1954), dancer and writer, was born Rashid Ahmed Chowdhury, in the village of Chunti under satkania thana of chittagong district.
Google | Bulbul Chowdhury Timeline | 1931 Sayeed Ahmed, noted theatre personality, art critic and playwright, was born in Dhaka.
Google | Sayeed Ahmed Timeline | 1942 The Assam –Bengal Railway was amalgamated with the Eastern Bengal Railway under the name “Bengal and Assam Railway.
Google | Bangladesh Railway Timeline | 1944 Azad Rahman (1944-2020), renowned singer, composer and music director, was born.
Google | Azad Rahman Timeline | 1968 Kamalapur Railway Station, the central railway station in Dhaka and the most important terminal for transportation between Dhaka and the rest of Bangladesh, was inaugurated.
Google | Bangladesh Railway Timeline | 1971 The National Mujahid Party published a pamphlet expressing the deepest feelings of liberty and explained the necessity for East Pakistan to be independent.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1972 Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), Bangladesh's national news agency, was established by government order soon after its independence from Pakistan.
Google | Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha Timeline | 1972 The Bangladesh Taka was created to replace the Pakistan Rupee as national currency, and was linked to the Pound Sterling at a fixed rate of Tk18.9677=£1, resulting in an Official Rate at Tk7.27927 per U.S. Dollar.
Google | Bangladeshi Taka Timeline | 1972 The first civil flight of independent Bangladesh operated from Tejgaon Airport by Capt. A. Rahim with a Cessna 150.
Google | Aviation History in Bangladesh Timeline | 1986 Jatiya Party (JP), a state-sponsored centrist political party under the chairmanship of Lt General Hussain Muhammad Ershad was found by merging two existing political parties Janadal and Jatiya Front.
Google | Jatiya Party Timeline | 1996 Some 100,000 Bangladeshi women rallied to protest Islamic clerics' attacks on female education and employment.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 1996 An oil tanker struck a small passenger ferry that subsequently killed 50 people in Meghna river.
Google | Maritime Accidents in Bangladesh Timeline | 1997 Foreign Service Academy, a training institute to look after the training needs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) cadres, was inaugurated.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 2001 DSE 20 Index was started at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE).
Google | Dhaka Stock Exchange Timeline | 2003 The government of Bangladesh banned thousands of two-stroke three-wheelers, sometimes known as baby taxis, from the streets of Dhaka in an effort to reduce air pollution.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 2005 The 11th Dhaka Book Fair begins at the National Theatre of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka. The theme of the fair was 'year of science book'.
Google | Dhaka Book Fair Timeline | 2006 The 12th Dhaka Book Fair begins at the Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka. The theme of the fair was 'Books for peace and development'.
Google | Dhaka Book Fair Timeline | 2024 Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is convicted for violating the country's labour laws. He was sentenced to six-months in jail by Dhaka's labour court; and subsequently given one-month bail on the condition of appealing against the verdict. Following an appeal, the convictions are overturned on 7 August 2024.
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