BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Sep 17

1962 Students in Dhaka protesting Ayub Khan's Sharif Commission education policy were shot and killed by police, turning their sacrifice into a defining moment in Bangladesh's struggle for equitable education rights
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1974 The United Nations General Assembly today unanimously admitted Bangladesh to the United Nations as its 136th member; the Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Dr Kamal Hossain acknowledged the greetings of member nations on the historic occasion in a speech from the UN rostrum.
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1975 Ganayan Natya Sampraday, a drama group, was founded in Chittagong.
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