BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Feb 28

1844 Girish Chandra Ghosh (1844-1912), playwright, actor and director, was born in Baghbazar in Calcutta.
Google | Girish Chandra Ghosh Timeline
1950 Mahbubul Haque Khan (better known as Azam Khan), renowned pop singer and freedom fighter, was born in Dhaka.
Google | Azam Khan Timeline
1971 Bhutto announced that the National Assembly session should be postponed. He said that the people of West Pakistan vetoed the 6-point. And threatened that if the PPP did not participate in the National Assembly session, there would be strikes called in all four provinces of West Pakistan.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline
1974 Davis Eugene Boster was appointed as the first ambassador of the United States to the newly independent nation of Bangladesh.
Google | Bangladesh USA Relations Timeline
1979 The second general election in Bangladesh was held with the participation of 2,547 candidates representing 29 parties and independents.
Google | Elections in Bangladesh Timeline
2008 A passenger ferry, MV Sourav-1, with over 150 passengers capsizes in the Buriganga killing 39 people.
Google | Maritime Accidents in Bangladesh Timeline
2016 Bangladesh wins first ever Twenty20 International (T20I) Cricket match against Sri Lanka.
Google | Bangladesh Cricket Timeline
2019 Atiqul Islam elected as the mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation.
Google | Dhaka City Corporation Timeline
2025 A new political party called National Citizen Party (NCP) is formed by the student leadership of the July 2024 Revolution.
Google | Politics of Bangladesh Timeline
8888 Shakila Zafar (Shakila Jafar), popular singer of Bangladeshi origin, was born in Karachi, Pakistan.
Google | Shakila Zafar Timeline