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1757 The forces of the British East India Company led by Robert Clive defeated the army of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj Ud Daulah in the Battle of Plassey.
Google | British India Timeline | 1949 Awami League, one of the oldest and major political parties in Bangladesh, was founded as East Pakistan Awami Muslim League in Dhaka at a convention of the leaders and workers known to have been a faction of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League headed by Suhrawardy and Abul Hashim.
Google | Awami League Timeline | 1962 East Pakistan Stock Exchange Association Ltd was renamed to East Pakistan Stock Exchange Ltd.
Google | Dhaka Stock Exchange Timeline | 1974 Dhaka Zoo, the largest zoo in Bangladesh located in Mirpur, ceremonially opened for public.
Google | Bangladesh National Zoo Timeline | 1992 'Tin Bigha Day' protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh.
Google | Bangladesh India Relations Timeline | 1996 A passenger ferry sank in Jamuna river and killed 50 people while it was carrying 200 passengers.
Google | Maritime Accidents in Bangladesh Timeline | 1998 Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge, a 4.8km long bridge constructed over the Jamuna for linking the eastern and western parts of Bangladesh opened for traffic.
Google | Bangladesh Timeline | 2004 Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of Singapore, arrives on a three-day official visit as part of his Asian tour.
Google | Bangladesh Singapore Relations Timeline | 2009 High Court of Bangladesh orders that the leather tanneries relocate from Hazaribagh by February 28, 2010, failing which [they] shall be shut down.
Google | Hazaribagh Tanneries Timeline | 2009 The Bangladesh Cricket Board sacked national cricket skipper Mohammad Ashraful and replaced him with Mashrafee bin Murtaza.
Google | Bangladesh Cricket Timeline | 2019 52 people are killed in road accident in a single day as people were returning from Eid Vacation. This is the country's highest reported number of casualties from a road crash in a single day in recent times.
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