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1940 Muhammad Yunus, banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, was born in Chittagong, British India.
Google | 1983 Muhammad Yunus's pilot program of micro-credit began operations as a full-fledged bank and was renamed to Grameen Bank (Village Bank) to make loans to poor Bangladeshis.
Google | 2006 The Nobel Committee awarded Grameen Bank and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to create economic and social development.
Google | 2006 Professor Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank receives the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital Oslo.
Google | 2006 Professor Muhammad Yunus returns to Dhaka with Nobel Peace Prize.
Google | 2007 Muhammad Yunus wrote an open letter, published in the Daily Star, where he asked citizens for views on his plan to float a political party to establish political goodwill, proper leadership and good governance. In the letter, he called on everyone to briefly outline how he should go about the task and how they can contribute to it.
Google | 2007 Muhammad Yunus announced the foundation of a new party tentatively called Citizens' Power (Nagorik Shakti). There was speculation that the army supported a move by Yunus into politics.
Google | 2007 Muhammad Yunus declared that he had decided to abandon his political plans thus abandoning previously announced Nagorik Shakti political party following a meeting with the head of the interim government, Fakhruddin Ahmed.
Google | 2010 A special episode of The Simpsons, popular American animated television series, was aired in the US with focus on Grameen Bank's micro-credit schemes and feature of Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus.
Google | 2011 Muhammad Yunus, the man who brought a Nobel Prize for Bangladesh, and the most celebrated living Bangladeshi around the globe, was unceremoniously relieved of his duties as the managing director at Grameen Bank through a Bangladesh Bank letter.
Google | 2013 The US Congress bestowed the country's top civilian award to Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus thus making him the first Muslim and first Bangladeshi to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
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