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1890 Shahid Hussein Suhrawardy, educationist, writer, art-critic and diplomat, was born in Kolkata.
Google | Open Timeline | 1897 Hurricane reached maximum intensity with series of storm-waves and hits Chittagong; Kutubdia Island and coastal villages were swept over; 14,000 people killed and 18,000 died in epidemics (cholera) that followed.
Google | Natural Disasters in Bangladesh Timeline | 1932 (Roy Bahadur) Jadunath Majumdar (1859-1932), writer, journalist and a community leader reputed for social work, died in Dayalpur in Magura district.
Google | Jadunath Majumdar Timeline | 1958 October 21-24, Cyclonic storm hits Chittagong coast; about 100,000 families lost their homes.
Google | Natural Disasters in Bangladesh Timeline | 2019 A court in southern Bangladesh sentenced 16 people to death for the killing of a young woman in a horrific attack in 2019. Nusrat Jahan Rafi (19) was set on fire on April 6 after she and her family refused to withdraw sexual harassment charges against the principal of the Islamic school she attended.
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