BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Jun 24

1939 Saifuddin Ahmed Manik, a liberation war veteran and one of the doyens of the country's politics, was born in Jalpaiguri in India.
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1973 Manabendra Larma forms a new political party, Chittagong Hill Tracts Solidarity Party (CHTSP), to champion the cause of regional autonomy.
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1981 Abdul Matin Chowdhury (1921-1981), scientist, educationist, Vice Chancellor of Dhaka University, died in Dhaka.
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1999 Major General Mahmudur Rahman Choudhury, eminent medical scientist and physician of Bangladesh, died.
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2000 At least 13 people were killed and 20 injured in landslide incidents on the Chittagong University campus and other parts of Chittagong City.
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2007 Bangladesh government announced plans to build a nuclear power plant to meet electricity shortages.
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