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1969 Ayub Khan resigned amid public pressure and handed over power to the then Army Chief, General Mohammad Yahya Khan.
Google | Ayub Khan Timeline | 1971 Pakistan Army opens fire on Bengali demonstrators in Syedpur, Rangpur and Chittagong. More than a thousand people are killed.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1971 The advisors of Yahiya Khan and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman met. Rumours abounded that Yahiya Khan would hand over power on March 25th. Bhutto and his heavy body guard stayed at the Intercontinental Hotel (Sheraton Hotel) in Dhaka.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 1974 Bangladesh withdrew its demand for trying 195 Pakistanis in Dhaka. Upon the formal understanding, the last group of 206 detained Bangladeshis in Pakistan was allowed to return home. It is clear that the 195 Pakistanis were not freed without charges, rather they were handed over to Pakistan so they could be prosecuted by the Pakistani authorities.
Google | Bangladesh Pakistan Relations Timeline | 1982 Hussain Muhammad Ershad (Lt. General) ousts Abdus Sattar in a bloodless coup, imposes martial law in the country, dissolves the parliament and suspends the constitution; Ershad assumes full powers as CMLA.
Google | Hussain Muhammad Ershad Timeline | 1982 The second Jatiya Shangshad (National Parliament) was dissolved due to military coup and imposement of martial law.
Google | Jatiya Shangshad Timeline | 1982 Abdus Sattar (1906-1985), Bangladeshi statesman, a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), he served as the president of Bangladesh from 1981 to 1982, and earlier as the vice president, former cabinet minister, Supreme Court judge, and chief election commissioner of Pakistan, died in Dhaka at age 79.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 1987 Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi international cricket player, was born in Magura, Khulna.
Google | Shakib Al Hasan Timeline | 1996 Troops broke up protests in Dhaka and injured about 50 people. In Chittagong a bomb killed at least 2 people amid a general strike.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 2001 Seven person died and twenty other injured when a bus fell into a ditch after losing its control of the wheel of a minibus at Dhleswar of Kalihati at eastern part of Bangobundhu bridge.
Google | Road and Railway Accidents in Bangladesh Timeline | 2001 A devastating fire burnt 700 houses and left 15 people injured at Botga village of Toria Union of Atoari Upazilla of Panchagar district Estimated loss 50-lac taka.
Google | Fire in Bangladesh Timeline | 2010 A tiny disputed island in southwest Bangladesh, known as South Talpatti to Bangladesh and New Moore Island to India, in the Bay of Bengal dissapeared beneath the rising seas sometime in March.
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