1963 May 20-23, In East Pakistan a cyclone killed about 22,000 along coast of the Bay of Bengal.Google | Natural Disasters in Bangladesh Timeline1996 As many as 77 people were feared drowned in a sunken ferry after a collision on the Jamuna river. More than 50 ferries have sunk since 1981 killing more than 1,000 people.Google | Maritime Accidents in Bangladesh Timeline2004 In eastern Bangladesh 2 river ferries carrying about 250 passengers capsized during a storm, and dozens of people were feared dead. The death toll climbed to 74.Google | Maritime Accidents in Bangladesh Timeline2005 Justice M. A. Aziz of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court was made the Chief Election Commissioner.Google | M. A. Aziz Timeline2010 Musa Ibrahim, becomes the first Bangladeshi to reach the peak of Mount Everest; he used the North Alpine route on the Tibetan side to climb to the highest peak.Google | Musa Ibrahim Timeline2016 Nurjahan Begum (1925–2016), the first female journalist in Bangladesh and a trailblazer for female journalists in South Asia, editor of Begum magazine, died in Dhaka at age 90.Google | Nurjahan Begum Timeline