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1858 Bipin Chandra Pal (1858-1932), a patriot, nationalist politician, renowned orator, journalist and writer, was born in Sylhet.
Google | Bipin Chandra Pal Timeline | 1922 Ghulam Azam (1922-2014), Bangladeshi political leader convicted of war crimes and the former Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, was born in Dhaka.
Google | Ghulam Azam Timeline | 1926 Mahbub Ul Alam Chowdhury, veteran poet famed for writing the first poem on the Language Movement, was born in Gohira village at Chittagong.
Google | Mahbub Ul Alam Chowdhury Timeline | 1927 Mahbubul Alam Chowdhury, poet and language movement hero, was born at Gohira under Raujan in Chittagong.
Google | Mahbubul Alam Chowdhury Timeline | 1975 Agitators of the Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal, a leftist but decidedly anti-Soviet and anti-Indian movement, managed to incite troops at the Dhaka cantonment against Musharraf, who was killed in a firefight.
Google | Politics of Bangladesh Timeline | 1975 Soldiers led by Col. Abu Taher ousted Musharraf, murdered him and his associates, and freed Ziaur Rahman from confinement who was placed under house arrest by Musharraf days earlier.
Google | Politics of Bangladesh Timeline | 1975 Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem, Supreme Court chief justice, becomes president and chief martial law administrator.
Google | Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem Timeline | 2001 Shahed Ali (1925-2001), educationist, cultural activist and a reputed author, died at the age of 76.
Google | Shahed Ali Timeline | 2004 The country's first flyover at Mohakhali, 1.01 km long Mohakhali flyover opens.
Google | Open Timeline | 2005 At least 70 people were missing after a ferry capsized in the Bay of Bengal while sailing to Chittagong port in Bangladesh from a nearby island.
Google | Ferry Accidents in Bangladesh Timeline | 2007 An earthquake with its epicentre near the Bangladesh-India border measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale jolts the south-eastern region of the country in the afternoon leaving 10 people injured; The quake was strongest in Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Bandarban, Khagrachhari, Feni, Noakhali and Comilla and was also felt in the capital.
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