BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Aug 10

1923 Sheikh Mohammed Sultan (1923–1994), popularly known as S M Sultan, a Bengali decolonial artist who worked in painting and drawing, was born in Narail, Bengal, British India.
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1946 Government Asheq Mahmud College was established in Jamalpur by a landlord named Ashed Mahmud.
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1972 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto confirmed that Pakistan had formally requested China to use its veto power to bar Bangladesh from becoming a member of the United Nations.
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1984 Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) elects Khaleda Zia as the Chairperson of the party.
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1998 The automated trading was initiated at Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE).
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2003 A court in Feni handed down life imprisonment to former Awami League (AL) lawmaker and alleged godfather of the crime-prone Feni district Joynal Abedin Hazari and his accomplice Farooq Hossain Mridha in an arms case.
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2004 Parimal Sikder, alleged leader of the outlawed Sarbahara gang 'Parimal Bahini', dies during an encounter with the police at Kuturikati village in the Barisal district.
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2012 In village of Saraswati in northeast Bangladesh at least 13 Muslim worshipers were killed and 15 hurt when lightning struck a makeshift mosque as they held special taraweeh prayers during Ramadan.
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