BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Jun 16

1944 Prafulla Chandra Ray (1861-1944), scientist, educationist, nationalist visionary, died.
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1966 The Daily Ittefaq, Bangla daily was banned by West Pakistan government.
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1975 The government banned the publication of all newspapers except four: Dainik Ittefaq, Dainik Bangla, Bangladesh Observer and Bangladesh Times.
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2001 In Narayanganj, a bomb exploded at a political rally of PM Hasina's governing Awami League Party. At least 22 people were killed.
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2006 Anwar Parvez (1944-2006), Bangladeshi music composer and music director, died in Dhaka.
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2010 Maqsudul Alam, a Bangladeshi professor of microbiology at the University of Hawaii, USA in collaboration with the departments of bio-technology and bio-Chemistry at Dhaka University had successfully sequenced genomes of jute, opening up newer potentials for its production, conservation and characterisation.
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