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1772 Khwaja Alimullah (1772-1854), the first Nawab of Dhaka and founder of the Dhaka Nawab family, was born in Begum Bazaar, Bengal Presidency, British India.
Google | 1829 Barisal Zilla School (originally established as Barisal English School) was founded by W. N. Garrett.
Google | 1846 The Dacca Bank, the thirty second oldest bank in India, the very first private bank founded in the present-day country of Bangladesh, was founded by Khwaja Alimullah.
Google | 1863 Brahma School, the origin of what is now Jagannath University, was established in Armanitola.
Google | 1900 M Osman Ali (1900-1971), a founding member of Bangladesh Awami League party and a member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly, was born in Jamalkandi, Daudkandi, Comilla, Bengal Presidency, British India.
Google | 1904 Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, laid foundation stone of the Curzon Hall (a British Raj-era building and home of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Dhaka) which was originally intended to be a town hall.
Google | 1906 Abdus Sattar (1906-1985), Bangladeshi statesman, a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), he served as the president of Bangladesh from 1981 to 1982, and earlier as the vice president, former cabinet minister, Supreme Court judge, and chief election commissioner of Pakistan, was born in Birbhum, Bengal Presidency, British India.
Google | 1940 Moudud Ahmed, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, was born in Manikpur, Noakhali.
Google | 1941 1941 Dhaka Riot, Hindu-Muslim communal violence that started out of a trifling matter.
Google | 1941 Jamaat-e-Islami Hind was established by Syed Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979).
Google | 1944 Azad Rahman (1944-2020), renowned singer, composer and music director, was born.
Google | 1944 Aly Zaker (1944–2020), Bangladeshi actor, businessman, director and writer, was born in Village Ratanpur of Nabinagar Upazila, Brahmanbaria District, Bengal Presidency, British India.
Google | 1947 The Bengal Legislative Assembly met to decide the future of the Bengal Province, as between being a United Bengal within India or Pakistan or divided into West Bengal and East Bengal as the homelands for the Bengali Hindus and the Bengali Muslims, respectively.
Google | 1947 The Sylhet referendum decided to sever Sylhet from Assam and merge it into East Bengal in order to join Pakistan.
Google | 1947 Just after the end of British rule, the Ministry of Industry approved the East Bengal training institute for the development of leather and leather production.
Google | 1949 A Constitutional Basic Principles Committee was formed at a session of the constituent assembly after more than a year and a half into its establishment as an independent state of Pakistan and yet to have a constitution.
Google | 1955 The province of 'East Bengal' was renamed to 'East Pakistan'.
Google | 1961 Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC), a state-owned transport corporation of Bangladesh, was established and after independence in 1971, it assumed its current name.
Google | 1969 Janomot, the first Bengali newsweekly published outside Bangladesh, was founded in London.
Google | 1970 Rangpur Medical College, a government medical college in Bangladesh, was established.
Google | 1971 M Osman Ali (1900-1971), a founding member of Bangladesh Awami League party and a member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly, passed away.
Google | 1971 Bangladesh Action Committee was formed at Coventry, UK by non-resident Bangladeshis.
Google | 1971 The highest temperature on record to date since Bangladesh’’s independence is 45.1 degrees in Rajshahi.
Google | 1972 The first civil flight of independent Bangladesh operated from Tejgaon Airport by Capt. A. Rahim with a Cessna 150.
Google | 1972 The new cabinet of the People's Republic of Bangladesh in it's meeting decided that the national flag of Bangladesh would be the one chosen during the liberation war with the omission of the map of the country inserted in it.
Google | 1972 The new cabinet of the People's Republic of Bangladesh in its meeting decided that the National Anthem of Bangladesh would be the first ten lines of the famous song composed by the great poet Rabindra Nath Tagore, 'Amar Sonar Bangla'.
Google | 1972 The Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini, a Bangladeshi paramilitary force during Sheikh Mujibur Rahman government, was formed.
Google | 1973 The Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, a scientific research organization of Bangladesh, was established.
Google | 1973 The tripartite repatriation began and some 1,468 Bangalis and 1,308 Pakistanis were repatriated within the first week. Pakistan and India agreed that the issue of 195 accused Pakistanis would be settled between Bangladesh and Pakistan. Pakistan kept the 203 Bangladeshis out of this repatriation process.
Google | 1974 Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, the principal state-sponsored national cultural centre of Bangladesh, was established.
Google | 1974 The High Court ruled that no further property that were abandoned during the liberation was could be enlisted as Vested Property.
Google | 1974 A tripartite agreement was signed between Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
Google | 1974 A Resident Travel Rate was created via a 30% tax on foreign exchange authorized for travel abroad by residents.
Google | 1975 The Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini, a Bangladeshi paramilitary force during Sheikh Mujibur Rahman government, was disbanded.
Google | 1978 An agreement concering the establishment of a Peace Corps Programme in Bangladesh was signed in Washington DC, USA.
Google | 1978 Aarong, a social enterprise chain of Bangladeshi department stores specializing in Bengali ethnic wear and handicrafts, owned by the non-profit development agency BRAC, was founded.
Google | 1980 Bangladeshi armed forces allegedly attacked the village of Kawkhali and left about 300 dead.
Google | 1982 Abdus Sattar (1906-1985), Bangladeshi statesman, a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), he served as the president of Bangladesh from 1981 to 1982, and earlier as the vice president, former cabinet minister, Supreme Court judge, and chief election commissioner of Pakistan, died in Dhaka at age 79.
Google | 1982 Bangladesh adopts standards of weights and measures based on metric system.
Google | 1982 The country saw the first closed holiday on Friday instead of Sunday after it was changed to Friday and Saturday from Saturday and Sunday.
Google | 1987 The longest general strike in Bangladesh's history to-date, a 54-hour campaign led by the Workers-Employees United Council (Sramik Karmachari Oikkiya Parishad), ended after 11 people were killed and 700 injured in street violence between demonstrators and security forces.
Google | 1989 Mangal Shobhajatra, the annual Bangla New Year procession, was first observed as the students of Dhaka University Faculty of Fine Arts decided to demonstrate against the military regime in a creative and festive way.
Google | 1993 Daily Janakantha (Dainik Janakan?ha), a Bengali daily newspaper published from Dhaka, Bangladesh was founded.
Google | 1996 Some 100,000 Bangladeshi women rallied to protest Islamic clerics' attacks on female education and employment.
Google | 1996 Troops broke up protests in Dhaka and injured about 50 people. In Chittagong a bomb killed at least 2 people amid a general strike.
Google | 1996 Lawachara National Park, major national park and nature reserve in Bangladesh, was declared a national park by the Bangladesh government under the Wildlife Act of 1974.
Google | 1997 Foreign Service Academy, a training institute to look after the training needs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) cadres, was inaugurated.
Google | 1997 Turkish president Suleyman Demirel along with Palestine President Yasser Arafat and President of South Africa Nelson Mandela attended a public rally in Dhaka in the celebration of 25th anniversary of Bangladesh's independence.
Google | 1997 At least 150 fishermen were missing in the Bay of Bengal after a storm sank their boats.
Google | 1997 In order to resolve the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) problem through political and peaceful means, the CHT Accord, popularly known as CHT Peace Accord was signed between the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS).
Google | 1997 4th Dhaka Boi Mela (Dhaka Book Fair) was inagurated by Chief Justice Mohammad Habibur Rahman.
Google | 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 | 2000 bdjobs.com, leading job portal in the country, was inaugurated.
Google | 2001 Ten people were killed in a church bombing in Baniarchar. Police later detained 7 suspects.
Google | 2001 A stampede of textile workers was caused by a false fire alarm and 23 people were crushed to death.
Google | 2001 The non-party caretaker administration decides to permit multinational forces to use its airspace, seaports and airports for any possible joint action to combat terrorism in the region.
Google | 2002 President of the Bangladesh approved the Acid Control Act 2002 and the Acid Crime Control Act 2002 making acid attacks punishable by death amid public anger over escalating violence against women.
Google | 2002 Authorities closed Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) indefinitely following weeks of student unrest.
Google | 2003 The government of Bangladesh banned thousands of two-stroke three-wheelers, sometimes known as baby taxis, from the streets of Dhaka in an effort to reduce air pollution.
Google | 2003 The first-ever motor show in Bangladesh begins at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre in Dhaka to showcase brand new automobiles.
Google | 2003 Bangladesh became the second nation to ban the current issue of Newsweek's international edition over an article on new interpretations of Islam's holy book.
Google | 2003 The anti-crime drive, Operation Spider Web launched on July 19, 2003 in the southwestern districts is formally called off.
Google | 2003 A Bangladesh court convicted and sentenced five zookeepers to 14 years in prison for killing three tigers in 1996 and planning to sell their skins.
Google | 2004 Gunmen opened fire at an opposition rally outside the capital, killing four people including a member of parliament.
Google | 2004 The country's second longest bridge named after Baul saint Lalon Shah opens to traffic, connecting Kushtia and Pabna districts across the Padma River at Paksey. The 1.8-kilometre bridge constructed at a cost of Tk 1,065 crore.
Google | 2004 Bangladesh launches Cheetah, another anti-criminal elite force in plainclothes, the fourth in a row, in a bid to contain widespread crime.
Google | 2005 The Spectrum garment factory, located about 30 kilometers northwest of Dhaka, collapsed after additional floors that had been illegally built gave way. The collapse killed 64 people and injured another 80.
Google | 2005 Jagannath University Act was approved by the parliament and government declared Jagannath College a full-fledged university.
Google | 2006 Peace Corps, the United States' non-governmental organisation, decides to suspend indefinitely its programme in Bangladesh fearing attack on its volunteers by terrorists, after the arrest of five of the top seven leaders of the JMB.
Google | 2006 7 killed and 300 injured as police and Bangladesh Rifles opened fire on demonstrators advancing towards Asia Energy Corporation office in Dinajpur protesting massive eviction and loss of farmland due to the implementation of the Phulbari Coalmine Project.
Google | 2006 Bangladesh's trade shipments ground to a virtual halt as shipping companies refused to use the nation's main port in a protest over container fees. Operations began to resume the next day after 2 shipping companies withdrew the boycott after a court ruled a surcharge on containers was illegal.
Google | 2006 100 injured as protesters clash with law enforcers across country to protest power cuts.
Google | 2007 Six top Islamic militants convicted of killing two judges in a 2005 bomb attack in southern Bangladesh were hanged.
Google | 2007 The price of Kerosene was set at Tk 40 per litre by the government, a 21 percent increase from the previous price of Tk 33 per litre set in 2006.
Google | 2007 The price of Diesel was set at Tk 40 per litre by the government, a 21 percent increase from the previous price of Tk 33 per litre set in 2006.
Google | 2007 The price of Petrol was set at Tk 65 per litre by the government, a 16 percent increase from the previous price of Tk 56 per litre set in 2006.
Google | 2007 The price of Octane was set at Tk 67 per litre by the government, a 15.5 percent increase from the previous price of Tk 58 per litre set in 2006.
Google | 2007 Hundreds of colleges reopened in Bangladesh, two weeks after military-backed government shut them down to quell nationwide student unrest.
Google | 2007 The Caretaker Government (CTG) relaxed the ban on the conduct of indoor politics in the country which was imposed earlier in the year. However, some restrictions on the political parties with regard to the ongoing reforms programme remained.
Google | 2007 Bangladesh's military-backed government lifts ban on indoor politics ahead of crucial talks between the country's election commission and parties on voting reforms.
Google | 2008 The price of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) was almost doubled to Tk 16.75 per cubic metre by the government from previous price of Tk 8.5 a cubic metre set in 2004.
Google | 2009 Bangladesh government introduces daylight saving time (DST) to address energy shortages which goes in affect on this day in 2009 when clocks were forwarded by an hour at 11:00PM.
Google | 2009 Five factories and two warehouses were torched and over 100 people were injured in clashes between protesters and police as garment factory workers continued violent demonstrations at Ashulia on the outskirts of Dhaka for the third straight day.
Google | 2009 At least 33 people, including Prof Anu Mohammad, member-secretary of the Committee, were injured in a clash between police and the activists of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports in the city during demonstartions against leasing gas blocks in the Bay to foreign companies. The trouble erupted in city's Bijoynagar area when police intercepted the demonstrators marching out from Paltan area to lay a siege to the Petrobangla head office.
Google | 2009 Bangladesh awarded a farmer who killed more than 83,000 rats and launched a monthlong campaign nationwide to kill millions more, to protect crops and reduce the need for food imports.
Google | 2010 The International Crimes Tribunal issued arrest warrants against the detained four top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders (Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah) ahead of a planned trial over alleged crimes against humanity during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.
Google | 2010 Bangladesh raised the minimum wage for its millions of garment workers by 80 percent, following months of violent protests over pay and conditions.
Google | 2010 A daily six-hour suspension of operation (between 3PM and 9PM) of all compressed natural gas (CNG) filling stations were put forth by the government to ensure increased supply of gas to household consumers and power generation plants.
Google | 2012 2 prominent television journalists, Meherun Runi (33) and Sagar Sarwar (35), were brutally stabbed to death at their home in the capital Dhaka.
Google | 2012 Thousands of Muslims angry over an alleged derogatory photo of the Islamic holy book Quran on Facebook set fires overnight in at least 10 Buddhist temples and 40 homes near the southern border with Myanmar.
Google | 2013 Hijras were recognized as a separate gender by the Bangladeshi Government in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed. Along with males and females, hijras will be identified as a separate gender on official documents.
Google | 2015 Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid and Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury were hanged for war crimes committed during the 1971 independence conflict with Pakistan.
Google | 2016 The four-lane expansion of N1 or Dhaka–Chittagong Highway, the main transportation artery in Bangladesh linking Dhaka and Chittagong opens.
Google | 2016 Archbishop Patrick D'Rozario, the highest ranked priest of the Roman Catholic Church in Bangladesh, was named cardinal thus becoming the first ever cardinal from Bangladesh.
Google | 2016 UNESCO recognized Mangal Shobhajatra, the annual Bangla New Year procession, as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Google | 2017 Court verdict against the 2004 grenade attack is given. Top BNP leaders Lutfuzzaman Babar was given the death penalty and Tariqe Rahman was given life term imprisonment. BNP rejected the verdict and carried out protests against it.
Google | 2017 Bangladesh enters the Nuclear power era as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurates the main construction work of the nuclear plant at Rooppur in Pabna.
Google | 2018 The Bangabandhu Satellite-1, the first Bangladeshi geostationary communications and Broadcasting Satellite, was successfully launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral launching pad of Florida.
Google | 2019 The construction of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel, an underwater expressway tunnel in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh under the Karnaphuli river, was officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Google | 2019 Various illegal casinos were raided across the country by the police force, in an effort to stop gambling which is banned in Bangladesh. Numerous gambling organizers were detained and taken to custody by the police.
Google | 2020 Azad Rahman (1944-2020), renowned singer, composer and music director, died in Dhaka.
Google | 2020 Aly Zaker (1944–2020), Bangladeshi actor, businessman, director and writer, dies at age 76 in Dhaka.
Google | 2021 Moudud Ahmed, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, died at age 80 in Singapore.
Google | 2021 Devastating fire at Rohingya Refugee Camp in Cox Bazar's kills 15, leaves 400 missing.
Google | 2022 The largest bridge in the country, the Padma Bridge, was inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Google | 2022 The first metro rail system was officially opened and inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The first section of the metro in the capital was Line 6 that's 11.7km long and runs from Uttara North south to Agargaon with seven intermediate stations.
Google | 2023 An explosion took place at about 4:50pm in a seven-storey building at Siddique Bazar in Gulistan killing at least 20 people and injuring over 100.
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