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1935 Nitun Kundu, artist, entrepreneur, co-founder of OTOBI, freedom fighter and famed sculptor, was born in Dinajpur.
Google | Nitun Kundu Timeline | 1953 Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani formed the National Democratic Front.
Google | Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani Timeline | 1955 The first test (first ever test Cricket in Bangladesh soil) was held between Pakistan and India. The newly-built Dhaka Stadium then had the maximum capacity of accommodating 15,000 spectators.
Google | Bangladesh Cricket Timeline | 1956 Manik Bandyopadhyay (1908-56), novelist and short story writer, died in Kolkata, India.
Google | Manik Bandyopadhyay Timeline | 1971 Bangladesh Air Force went to their very first action since formation and attacked the Chittagong-based Oil tank depot and oil tank depot was totally destroyed by that air attack.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1971 Pakistan launches preemptive air strikes against India.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1971 Bangladesh Air Force destroys Pakistani oil depots. Pakistani air attacks on India results in India declaring war on Pakistan.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1986 Anthony Mascarenhas (1928-1986), Pakistani journalist and author whose works include exposés on the brutality of Pakistan military during the 1971 independence movement of Bangladesh, died in London at age 58.
Google | Foreign Friends of Bangladesh Timeline | 1991 (Justice) Badruddin Ahmad Siddiky (1915-1991), an accomplished lawyer, Chief Justice of East Pakistan, a humanitarian activist, and diplomatic dignitary, died.
Google | Badruddin Ahmad Siddiky Timeline | 1999 Rokonuzzaman Khan Dadabhai (1925-1999), noted litterateur, journalist and founder of the children's organisation Kachi Kanchar Mela, died in Dhaka.
Google | Rokonuzzaman Khan Dadabhai Timeline | 2004 Bishwa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim gathering after Hajj, begins on the bank of Turag river in Tongi.
Google | Bishwa Ijtema Timeline | 2005 Police have detained a total of 97 people over 2 days in connection with 3 bombings which killed 14 people.
Google | Terrorism in Bangladesh Timeline | 2010 A boiler explosion at the Eurotex factory in Dhaka started a fire, which led to a stampede that killed two workers and injured another 62.
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