BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Apr 16

1885 Ullaskar Datta (1885-1965), nationalist and a revolutionary, was born in Baghbari of Village Kalikachha under Sarail Upazila of Brahmanbaria district.
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1928 Shashanka Mohan Sen (1872-1928), poet, literary critic and educationist, died in Calcutta.
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2004 1,790 sophisticated firearms from the seizure in Chittagong on April 2, 2004 are given to the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
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2006 On the opening day of the second Test between Bangladesh and Australia in Chittagong, marauding cops led by the then DC (port) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Ali Akbar swung into an uncalled for action against the on-duty journalists, injuring at least 20 media men of different national dailies and satellite televisions at this venue.
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2008 17 people were killed and at least 23 injured when Dhaka bound Ekota Express, a train, coming from Dinajpur rammed into a passenger bus at a Balla rail crossing in Kalihati upazila of Tangail.
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