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1925 Nurjahan Begum (1925–2016), the first female journalist in Bangladesh and a trailblazer for female journalists in South Asia, editor of Begum magazine, was born in Chandpur District, Bengal Presidency, British India.
Google | Nurjahan Begum Timeline | 1949 Badal Rahman (1949-2010), eminent filmmaker, film society activist and the director of the first Bangladeshi full-length feature film for children 'Emiler Goenda Bahini (1980)', was born.
Google | Badal Rahman Timeline | 1972 The collision of two trains in Jessore, Bangladesh, kills 76 people. This disaster resulted from one simple error by a train-station operator.
Google | Road and Railway Accidents in Bangladesh Timeline | 1996 Bangladesh received public access to the internet when the country's first Internet Service Provider (ISP), Information Services Network (ISN), began operations after online internet services were legalized on the same day.
Google | Telecommunications in Bangladesh Timeline | 1996 The VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) based data circuit was commissioned for the first time in Bangladesh to establish internet connectivity.
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