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1938 Mohammad Abdul Jabbar (1938–2017). Bangladeshi singer, Ekushey Padak winner, was born in Kushtia, Bengal Presidency, British India.
Google | Mohammad Abdul Jabbar Timeline | 1962 Athar Ali Khan, former Bangladeshi cricketer and an international commentator, was born in Dhaka.
Google | Athar Ali Khan Timeline | 1972 Five crewmembers on board a Biman flight were killed when a Douglas DC-3 aircraft crashed. It was the country's first air accident.
Google | Bangladesh Biman Timeline | 1975 Ivory Coast formally acknowledged Bangladesh as an independent nation.
Google | Bangladesh Ivory Coast Relations Timeline | 1982 Allegedly under pressure from Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Justice Abdus Sattar addressed the nation decrying his cabinet as corrupt.
Google | Hussain Muhammad Ershad Timeline | 1988 Union Councils election was held with 115,000 candidates vying for 44,000 positions at 20,000 polling stations throughout the country amid widespread violence; the official count listed 85 dead and about 500 injured from street battles between demonstrators and security forces.
Google | Elections in Bangladesh Timeline | 1993 North South University (NSU), the first private university in Bangladesh established by the NSU Foundation with the initiative of a group of philanthropists, industrialists, bureaucrats and academics, was formally inaugurated by Begum Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
Google | Education in Bangladesh Timeline | 1995 Leila Arjumand Banu (1929-1995), music artiste and social worker, died.
Google | Leila Arjumand Banu Timeline | 1998 740 Shanti Bahini rebels surrender in Khagrachari; J.B. Larma announces the formal disbandment of the Shanti Bahini; Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pledges a $ 470 million development package for the Chittagong region.
Google | Political Crisis in Bangladesh Timeline | 2004 Ruling BNP-Jamat coalition revises 1985 Police Uniform Act and drops Boat from Monogram and drops Boat with Sheil from Cap, Badge and Belt.
Google | Bangladesh Police Timeline | 2010 Doug McMillon, President and CEO of Walmart International, arrives in Dhaka for a two-day visit; first ever visit of Wal-Mart top executive to Bangladesh.
Google | Bangladesh USA Relations Timeline | 2010 SoftExpo 2010, five-day long software exposition organized by Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) kicks off at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka; the theme of the expo was 'Digital Bangladesh in Action'.
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