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1965 After three months on the air as a pilot project, Pilot Television Dacca was officially converted into a service of Pakistan Television on 25 March 1965.
Google | Bangladesh Television Timeline | 1969 President Ayub Khan resigns and hands over power to army chief General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan, who promptly places Pakistan under martial law.
Google | Ayub Khan Timeline | 1971 Govinda Chandra Dev, popularly known as Dr. G. C. Dev or Dr. Dev, renowned professor, one of the most learned philosophers and intellectuals of Bangladesh, was brutally murdered by the Pakistan army.
Google | Govinda Chandra Dev Timeline | 1971 The Pakistani Army launched Operation Searchlight to 'eliminate' the Awami League and its supporters in East Pakistan.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1971 The office of The Daily Ittefaq, a daily Bangla newspaper, was burnt down by the Pakistan army.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1971 Newspaper headlines read that 150 people were killed in various parts of the country by the armed forces. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman feared that the earlier talks with Yahiya Khan and Z. A. Bhutto were decoys.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1971 The Pakistani military forcibly confined all foreign reporters to the Hotel Intercontinental (currently the Dhaka Sheraton) in Dhaka; that night after 11pm the military launched its genocide campaign against the Bengali civilian population.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was arrested in Dhaka.
Google | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Timeline | 1971 Tajuddin Ahmad (1925-1975), lawyer, politician, and the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh, left Dhaka for India when the Pakistan army started its mass killing.
Google | Tajuddin Ahmad Timeline | 1980 Bangladeshi armed forces allegedly attacked the village of Kawkhali and left about 300 dead.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 2007 Bangladesh Cricket was among 8 teams that progressed to Super Eights, the second round of the World Cup 2007 in West Indies. This was the first time for them to move past the first rounds in World Cup Cricket.
Google | Bangladesh Cricket Timeline | 2010 International Crimes Tribunal was formed in Dhaka, at old High Court building under International Crimes (Tribunals) Act enacted in 1973, for the trial of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated in Bangladesh during the nine-month-long liberation war of 1971.
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