BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh History on  Mar 16

1933 Waheedul Haq, veteran journalist and noted Tagore song specialist, was born in Bhawal Monoharia village under Keraniganj upazila.
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1971 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman arrived at the President House hoisting a black flag to protest the horrendous massacre for the so called negotiations with Yahiya Khan and his generals in Dhaka.
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2001 Ten people died when a bus from Gazipur lost its control near Ponchogor.
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2006 Government files a sedition case against all seven members of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB)'s Majlish-e-Shura.
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2011 Khandaker Delwar Hossain, senior politician, Secretary General of BNP and five-time member of parliament from Manikganj's Ghior-Doulatpur constituency, died at age 78 in Singapore.
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2014 Bangladesh wins first ever Twenty20 International (T20I) Cricket match against Afghanistan.
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2016 Fazle Kabir, former finance secretary and Sonali Bank chairman, was appointed 11th Governor of Bangladesh Bank.
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2016 Tamim Iqbal becomes the first Bangladeshi cricketer to score 1,000 runs in Twenty20 International cricket (T20#536).
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2021 Moudud Ahmed, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, died at age 80 in Singapore.
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