1971 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said today the time was not yet ripe for India to recognize the rebel Bangla Desh (Bengal Nation) government in East Pakistan.Google | Bangladesh India Relations Timeline1976 Col Abu Taher, military officer, a sector commander in the war of liberation, radical activist, was executed at 4:30am at the Dhaka Central Jail.Google | Col Abu Taher Timeline1991 Rudra Muhammad Shahidullah, veteran poet and member of the Sangiskritik Jote, died in Dhaka.Google | Rudra Muhammad Shahidullah Timeline2002 AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury resigned from President post in the face of impeachment threats by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.Google | AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury Timeline2004 In northeastern Bangladesh a bomb exploded at an opposition rally wounding nearly 40 people.Google | Terrorism in Bangladesh Timeline