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1968 Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani called a countrywide strike.
Google | Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani Timeline | 1970 The general elections result in an outright victory for the Awami League. It ends up winning 160 of the 162 seats allocated for East Pakistan, thus obtaining a majority in the 300 seat National Assembly. The Pakistan People's Party emerges as the second largest party with 88 seats; Military ruler Yahya Khan declines to convene National Assembly.
Google | Elections in Bangladesh Timeline | 1971 Battle of Sylhet starts. Liberation of Jessore, Sylhet and Moulovi Bazar.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1971 Freedom fighters freed Noakhali from Pakistani occupation forces after a bloody battle. Jessore, Sylhet and Moulovi Bazar was also liberated.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1971 Magura became free from Pakistan army.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1976 The Merelybone Cricket Club (MCC) arrives in Dhaka for their first Bangladesh tour and to help build the enthusiasm; over 40,000 people attends the representative match at Dhaka.
Google | Bangladesh Cricket Timeline | 1985 The First SAARC Summit was held on 7-8th December in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Google | SAARC Timeline | 1987 Hussain Muhammad Ershad dissolved the parliament.
Google | Hussain Muhammad Ershad Timeline | 1991 Ataur Rahman Khan (1905-1991), former prime minister, lawyer, politician and writer, passed away in Dhaka.
Google | Ataur Rahman Khan Timeline | 2002 19 people were killed, and more than 300 injured in a series of bomb blasts at four cinemas on Eid holiday evening in the district town of Mymensingh, some 150 kms north of Dhaka.
Google | Terrorism in Bangladesh Timeline | 2005 Bhutan recognized the Democratic Republic of Bangladesh.
Google | Bangladesh Bhutan Relations Timeline | 2014 Construction work of the much-expected Padma Bridge at Mawa in Munshiganj starts.
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