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1946 Pramatha Chowdhury (1868-1946), litterateur, essayist, and one of the architects of Chalita Bhasa, died.
Google | Pramatha Chowdhury Timeline | 2003 Nurjahan Murshid (1924-2003), activist in women empowerment, politics, and war of liberation and minister in the cabinet of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, died.
Google | Nurjahan Murshid Timeline | 2006 Bangladesh's trade shipments ground to a virtual halt as shipping companies refused to use the nation's main port in a protest over container fees. Operations began to resume the next day after 2 shipping companies withdrew the boycott after a court ruled a surcharge on containers was illegal.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 2007 Detained former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina Wajed was charged in a new graft case as part of the emergency government's corruption crackdown.
Google | Shaikh Hasina Timeline | 2009 At least 33 people, including Prof Anu Mohammad, member-secretary of the Committee, were injured in a clash between police and the activists of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports in the city during demonstartions against leasing gas blocks in the Bay to foreign companies. The trouble erupted in city's Bijoynagar area when police intercepted the demonstrators marching out from Paltan area to lay a siege to the Petrobangla head office.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 2009 America's role in opposing the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh was a 'tragic mistake', said the US Ambassador in Dhaka, James F. Moriarty at a memorial meeting for deceased Senator Edward Kennedy at the Liberation War museum. He also said 'Senator Kennedy helped my country to correct the mistake back in 1971 and we expressed that by quickly recognising Bangladesh'.
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