BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Dec 13

1971 Soviet Navy deploys a group of warships to counter USS Enterprise. The U.S. moves in the direction of Southeast Asia, averting a confrontation.
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1971 Soviet Navy deploys second group of ships armed with nuclear missiles from Vladivostok to counter USS Enterprise (the first batch arrived on December 6, 1971).
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2005 Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant, Ataur Rahman alias Sunny, the 'operations commander' arrested from the Tejgaon area of capital Dhaka.
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2005 American Center Library, U.S. Embassy Dhaka, was dedicated in the name of Archer K. Blood, a US diplomat based in Dhaka.
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2011 Kabir Chowdhury (1923–2011), National Professor, renowned educationist, author and a pioneer in the movement against fundamentalism, died at age 88 in Dhaka.
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