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1948 Ghulam Azam, General Secretary of Dhaka University Students' Union, on behalf of Dhaka University Students' Union gave a memorandum to Pakistan's Prime Minister Liakat Ali Khan at Dhaka University asking that Bangla be the national language for Pakistan.
Google | Bengali Language Movement Timeline | 1983 Janadal, a political party, was formed. Janadal and Jatiya Front would later merge to form Jatiya Party.
Google | Jatiya Party Timeline | 1987 Hussain Muhammad Ershad declares a state of emergency with restrictions on civil rights after continued agitation since the 'Siege of Dhaka' earlier in the month.
Google | Hussain Muhammad Ershad Timeline | 1995 Bongo Bazar, popular clothing market in Gulistan, was burned down from a devastating fire.
Google | Fire in Bangladesh Timeline | 2009 A passenger ferry, MV Coco-4, was struck by a river shoal which sank the ferry killing 75 people with several other missing.
Google | Maritime Accidents in Bangladesh Timeline | 2019 A Bangladesh court handed death sentences to seven members of an Islamist militant group for their role in an attack on a cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, in the south Asian nation’’s worst such incident.
Google | Terrorism in Bangladesh Timeline | 2020 Aly Zaker (1944–2020), Bangladeshi actor, businessman, director and writer, dies at age 76 in Dhaka.
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