BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Mar 18

1859 (Lord) Carmichael, the first Governor of Bengal (1912-1917), was born in Edinburgh.
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1957 Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani resigned from his position as president of Awami League (AL).
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1970 Rangpur Medical College, a government medical college in Bangladesh, was established.
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1971 Anthony Mascarenhas, the assistant editor of the West Pakistani newspaper Morning News, flew to London and walked into the offices of the Sunday Times offering to write the true story of what he had witnessed in East Pakistan.
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1971 Second day of 'negotiations' takes place between Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Yahiya Khan and his generals in Dhaka.
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1979 Abul Mansur Ahmad, a prominent litterateur, journalist and a veteran politician, died in Dhaka.
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2007 Bangladeshi police filed extortion charges against Tarique Rahman who had been a powerful political leader in the country.
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2007 Choles Ritchil, a leading Garo leader of Bangladesh, was killed after being arrested the same day by the joint forces of Bangladesh army and its police.
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2008 Bangladesh wins first ever One Day International (ODI) Cricket match against Ireland.
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2020 Bangladesh reported its first Coronavirus death. The patient was aged over 70 and had other morbidities.
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2022 Bangladesh wins their first ever international cricket match against South Africa in South Africa when they beat the host by 38-run in the first ODI of a 3-match series.
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