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1964 The Bangladesh Observer reported that as many as 500 people may have died as a tornado destroyed villages in the Narail and Magura regions of Jessore.
Google | Natural Disasters in Bangladesh Timeline | 1971 Tajuddin Ahmed announced in a radio address from India, the formation of a Bangladeshi government-in-exile with Syed Nazrul Islam as the acting President, himself as Prime Minister and Colonel M.A.G, Osmani as Commander-in-Chief of the Bangladeshi liberation forces.
Google | Bangladesh Liberation War Timeline | 2001 Agricultural crops of 2 thousand hector and around 500 houses were damaged to the storm and norwester at Dirai Upazila of Sunamgonj district.
Google | Natural Disasters in Bangladesh Timeline | 2005 The Spectrum garment factory, located about 30 kilometers northwest of Dhaka, collapsed after additional floors that had been illegally built gave way. The collapse killed 64 people and injured another 80.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 2013 Bangladesh authorities in Dhaka arrested Mahmudur Rahman, the acting editor of Amar Desh (a pro-opposition newspaper), on charges of sedition and other crimes.
Google | Mahmudur Rahman Timeline | 2015 Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman is executed for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
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