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1861 Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and music, was born in Jorasanko, Calcutta, British India.
Google | Rabindranath Tagore Timeline | 1931 Siddiqua Kabir (1931–2012), a Bangladeshi nutritionist, academic, cookbook author and cooking show television host, was born in Dhaka.
Google | Siddika Kabir Timeline | 1954 The Pakistan government recognizes Bangla as a state language.
Google | Bengali Language Movement Timeline | 1961 The centenary of Rabindranath Tagore's birth is observed all over East Pakistan, with Justice Syed Mahbub Murshed, Chief Justice of the East Pakistan High Court, playing a leading role in the celebrations.
Google | Rabindranath Tagore Timeline | 1971 Ranadaprasad Saha better known as RP Saha (1896-1971), entrepreneur, philanthropist and patron of learning, was killed by the Pakistani occupation army.
Google | Ranadaprasad Saha Timeline | 1979 Government Asheq Mahmud College in Jamalpur was nationalised by the government of Bangladesh.
Google | Government Asheq Mahmud College Timeline | 1986 The third general election in Bangladesh was held where a total of 1,980 candidates representing 28 parties and independents contested for 300 seats. The Jatiya Party, led by Hossain Mohammad Ershad, bagged highest 153 seats while the Bangladesh Awami League won 73 seats. Nearly 66.31 percent of the 47,876,979 registered voters casted their votes.
Google | Elections in Bangladesh Timeline | 2004 Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at a political meeting near his residence in Tongi.
Google | Ahsanullah Master Timeline | 2004 Gunmen opened fire at an opposition rally outside the capital, killing four people including a member of parliament.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 2007 Sheikh Hasina returned to Bangladesh after 51 days in the US and UK when the interim caretaker government prevented her from returning to the country.
Google | Timeline | 2008 Sheikh Hasina formally charged for graft days after similar charges against Khaleda Zia. They deny all charges.
Google | Timeline | 2010 Rushanara Ali, a 35 year-old British citizen of Bangladeshi origin becomes the first Bangladeshi origin Member of Parliament when she won a seat in the British Parliament from the Labour Party in the constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow in East London.
Google | Rushanara Ali Timeline | 2019 Subir Nandi (1953-2019), Bangladeshi musician, dies at age 66 in Singapore.
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