BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Jan 18

1871 Raja Rammohon Library was established by Brahmo Samaj in Old Dhaka.
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1917 Azizur Rahman (1917-1978), composer of songs and poet, was born in the village of Haripur in Kushtia district.
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1932 Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed (1932-2003), jurist, lawyer, attorney-general, two-time adviser to neutral caretaker Governments of Bangladesh, public figure, was born in Ghazipur in the United Provinces in British India.
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1935 Momtazuddin Ahmed (1935-2019), renowned theatre personality, educationist, language movement activist and Ekushey Padak recipient, was born in Malda of West Bengal.
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1954 Partha Pratim Majumder, Bangladeshi mime artist who is considered the forerunner of mime art in Bangladesh, was born in Pabna.
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1976 Diplomatic relations were established between Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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1992 Hamidul Huq Chowdhury (1901–1992), politician, lawyer, founder of the Bangladesh Observer, died in Dhaka at age 90.
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1999 Shamsur Rahman, renowned poet, was attacked by HuJI-B militant at his residence in Shyamali locality in Dhaka in a failed bid to kill him.
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2018 Shammi Akhter (1957-2018), birth name Shamima Akhter, Bangladeshi playback singer, dies in Dhaka at age 60.
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