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1861 Dhaka Prakash, the first Bengali language newspaper published in Dhaka, capital of East Bengal (present-day Bangladesh). The newspaper remained in publication for about a century.
Google | 1873 Kalindi Rani, the Chakma queen regnant, 45th ruler of the Chakma monarchy ruling the traditional Chakma kingdom, at the eastern edge of then British India, including parts of Chittagong and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, from 1832 to 1873, died.
Google | 1896 Ranada Prasad, popularly known as RP Saha, a great philanthropist who dedicated his life to the welfare of people was born.
Google | 1903 Abul Fazal (1903-1983), Bangladeshi writer and academic, 4th vice-chancellor of University of Chittagong, was born in
Satkania, Chittagong, Bengal Presidency, British India.
Google | 1912 Eastern Bengal and Assam Muslim League (EBAML) and the West Bengal Muslim League (WBML) were amalgamated into the Bengal Provincial Muslim League (BPML) as the provincial branch of the India Muslim League (AIML) following the annulment of the Partition of Bengal.
Google | 1929 The Nikhil Banga Praja Samiti was formed with Sir Abdur Rahim as president, Maulana Akram Khan as secretary and Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq as vice-president.
Google | 1933 The Dhaka-Calcutta airmail service was opened.
Google | 1934 An earhquake occured with a magnitude of 7.1 and the epicentre at Dhubri of Assam, India. The earthquake caused considerable damages in greater Rangpur district of Bangladesh.
Google | 1937 Anisuzzaman (1937–2020), Bangladeshi academic of Bengali literature and National Professor of Bangladesh, was born in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was an activist who took part in the Language Movement (1952), participated in Mass Uprising (1969), and took part in the War of Liberation (1971).
Google | 1946 Ashraf Uddin Ahmed Uzzal (known by the stage name Uzzal), Bangladeshi film actor, producer and director, was born in Jantihar village, Shahzadpur, Pabna District in the then British India
Google | 1946 Asaduzzaman Noor, Bangladeshi actor, politician and activist, was born in Jalpaiguri, Bengal Province, British India.
Google | 1947 The British House of Commons passed the India Independence Act, by which two independent dominions were created on the subcontinent and the princely states were left to accede to either.
Google | 1951 The Sangbad, Bangla daily newspaper, was first published with Khairul Kabir as the editor.
Google | 1954 Governor-General Ghulam Muhammad dismissed the United Front government under Article 92/A of the provisional constitution of Pakistan as tensions with the western wing grew due to the demands for greater provincial autonomy in East Bengal.
Google | 1954 Orient Airways started DC-3 flights from Karachi to Dhaka, forming a critical connection between the capitals of geographically separated East and West Pakistan.
Google | 1966 President Ayub Khan and Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri sign the Tashkent Declaration through the mediation of Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin. Shastri dies in the early hours of the next day.
Google | 1966 Eleven people including Monu Mia, Shafiq and Shamsul Haq, were gunned down during a general strike (hartal) demanding release of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and other leaders detained for launching the six-point movement for independence.
Google | 1968 National Awami Party (NAP) of Maulana Bhasani, East Pakistan Workers Federation of Toaha and East Pakistan Peasants Association led by Abdul Huq arranged a public meeting at Paltan Maidan to observe the Repression Resistance Day for tyranny of Ayub Khan.
Google | 1968 On the call of the main opposition parties namely two factions of NAP (Bhasani and Muzaffar), Awami League, People's Party, Nezam-i-Islam, Jama't-i-Islam etc a hartal was observed throughout East Pakistan.
Google | 1970 The One Unit system is disbanded in West Pakistan and the wing reverts to the provinces of Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan and North-West Frontier Province.
Google | 1971 ASM Abdur Rab the then VP of Dhaka University Students´ Union had the honour of hoisting the first flag of Independent Bangladesh at the Dhaka University premise popularly known as Bat-tala.
Google | 1971 Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra (Radio Centre of Independent Bangladesh) was renamed Bangladesh Betar.
Google | 1972 Bangladesh Shilpa Rin Sangstha (BSRS) was established by the President's Order No. 128 of 1972 to provide credit facilities and other assistance to industrial concerns and to encourage and broaden the base of investment in Bangladesh.
Google | 1978 Tokai, the longest survived cartoon character of Bangladesh, a creation of Rafiqun Nabi or Ranabi, was started in the year-beginning issue of Saptahik Bichitra (a weekly magazine).
Google | 1979 Miles, Bangladeshi rock band, was formed in Dhaka.
Google | 1980 Baguda (Bogra) Natyagosthi was established in Bogra by a group of youth who had returned from the war of liberation to tackle the frustration of war-returned youths and to meet the political change of the country, and to counter the anarchic situation existing in the country.
Google | 1983 Abul Fazal (1903-1983), Bangladeshi writer and academic, 4th vice-chancellor of University of Chittagong, died at age 79 in Chittagong.
Google | 1984 Building Technology and Ideas Ltd (BTI), a leading real estate company, bgean journey with its first project by constructing an apartment building on Indira Road in Dhaka.
Google | 1987 District Council Amendment Bill was passed by the Jatiyo Party majority in National Parliament even after continued protests by opposition five-party alliances.
Google | 1990 Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) constituted by the government of Bangladesh as a regulatory body under the Ministry of Communications started its operations formally.
Google | 1991 Joint Task Force Sea Angel ends relief operations in Bangladesh after Cyclone Marian.
Google | 1995 The Prize bond of 100-taka denomination was introduced.
Google | 1996 President Abdur Rahman Biswas accused the army chief (Lt General) Abu Saleh Mohammad Nasim of ordering troops to march against the government. There has been 2 presidents assassinated, 3 military coups, and 18 coup attempts since independence in 1971.
Google | 1999 The newspaper employees will observe a 24 hour long token strike to protest again the 'rigid' attitude of the government regarding immediate announcement of the Newspaper Wage Board Award.
Google | 2000 At least 13 people were killed and 20 injured in landslide incidents on the Chittagong University campus and other parts of Chittagong City.
Google | 2001 Petition challenging the Public Safety Act (PSA) filed with a High Court Division Bench by the activists of the main opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP).
Google | 2001 Member of Parliament and senior opposition leader of BNP Salauddin Kader Choudhury arrested from Chandanpura, Chittagong, on charge of possessing illegal weapons. A huge cache of arms and ammunition also seized from his possession.
Google | 2001 Dhaka High Court gives a split verdict on the Public Safety Act (PSA) with one judge of a two-member bench declaring the entire law 'illegal' and ultra vires to the Constitution. But other member differs with the opinion that the entire law was contrary to the Constitution.
Google | 2002 Cabinet gives approval for repealing the Public Safety (Special Provision) Act 2000.
Google | 2002 It was reported that 80% of the country's 235 rivers were drying up due to silting, dumping and construction of unplanned embankments.
Google | 2002 In Gaibandha, Bangladesh, least 30 people, mostly women and children, were killed in a stampede after a wall collapsed during a give-away of clothes and money.
Google | 2003 Armed Forces are withdrawn from Operation Clean Heart. 24,023 Army personnel, 339 Naval troops, and a large number of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), police and Ansars participated in the operation. 11,280 people, including 2,482 listed criminals/terrorists are arrested and 2,028 weapons and 29,754 ammunition rounds recovered in the Army-led drive.
Google | 2004 Home Ministry bans all publications of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Bangladesh a day before the end of an ultimatum given by the anti-Ahmadiyya alliance Hifazate Khatme Nabuwat Andolon (HKNA), represented by Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) leaders to declare the sect as 'non-Muslims'.
Google | 2004 In Bangladesh Ahsanullah Master, a member of the main opposition Awami League, was killed.
Google | 2004 A six-story apartment building collapsed in Dhaka, killing at least 11 people and trapping about 25 inside.
Google | 2004 Awami League enforced dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal protesting recent rigging in by-polls in Dhaka, bomb blast at a meeting of Suranjit Sengupta in Sunamganj, murder of a Khulna editor and killing of policemen by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal.
Google | 2005 57 persons, including seven police personnel, are injured in a clash between the IKNMB, the anti-Ahmadiyya group, and the police near the Baitul Mokarram mosque area in Dhaka.
Google | 2006 At least 21 people died and 100 were injured when a five-storey building collapsed in Dhaka.
Google | 2006 Submarine cable at its landing station in Cox's Bazar was inaugurated as part of South East Asia-Middle East-West Europe-4 (SEA-ME-WE-4) project connecting the country with undersea fibre-optic cable.
Google | 2006 The price of Kerosene was set at Tk 33 per litre by the government.
Google | 2006 The price of Diesel was set at Tk 33 per litre by the government.
Google | 2006 The price of Petrol was set at Tk 56 per litre by the government.
Google | 2006 The price of Octane was set at Tk 58 per litre by the government.
Google | 2006 Birth and Death Registration Act, 2004 which require every individual born in Bangladesh and Bangladeshi Citizen born outside to undergo birth registration process went into effect.
Google | 2006 The Awami League (AL) led 14-party opposition combine enforced a dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal today, protesting the death of two opposition activists in police action during the blockade programme on July 2.
Google | 2007 Finance and Planning Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam announced the national budget. This is the first-ever national budget announced by a caretaker government over all public and private radio stations and television channels in the history of the country as there is no parliament now.
Google | 2007 The judiciary comes out of the control of the executive organ of the state, the magistrate courts across the country come out of the executive control today and continue operating under the authority of the Supreme Court (SC).
Google | 2007 Abinash Chandra Sheel, renowned dotara player and the youngest son of dotara maestro and music composer Kanai Lal Sheel, passed away at the age of 54.
Google | 2008 The Aga Khan, hereditary and spiritual leader (imam) of the Shia Ismaili community, arrived in Dhaka to a red carpet reception by private plane and was greeted by chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed at the airport.
Google | 2008 First ever Hajj and Omrah Fair in Dhaka is held; the three-day fair was inagurated by Religious affairs adviser AF Hassan Ariff.
Google | 2008 The price of Kerosene was set at Tk 55 per litre from the previous price of Tk 40 per litre set in 2007; the price of Diesel was set at Tk 55 per litre from the previous price of Tk 40 per litre set in 2007; the price of Petrol was set at Tk 87 per litre from the previous price of Tk 65 per litre set in 2007; the price of Octane was set at Tk 90 per litre from the previous price of Tk 67 per litre set in 2007. The price of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) was set at Tk 8.5 per cubic metre.
Google | 2008 The anti-Corruption Commission brings new graft charges against Khaleda for embezzling money from an orphanage.
Google | 2010 Maqsudul Alam, a Bangladeshi professor of microbiology at the University of Hawaii, USA in collaboration with the departments of bio-technology and bio-Chemistry at Dhaka University had successfully sequenced genomes of jute, opening up newer potentials for its production, conservation and characterisation.
Google | 2019 A court in southern Bangladesh sentenced 16 people to death for the killing of a young woman in a horrific attack in 2019. Nusrat Jahan Rafi (19) was set on fire on April 6 after she and her family refused to withdraw sexual harassment charges against the principal of the Islamic school she attended.
Google | 2019 In Bangladesh at least seven people were killed and eight injured after a gas pipeline exploded in the port city of Chittagong.
Google | 2019 A Bangladesh court handed death sentences to seven members of an Islamist militant group for their role in an attack on a cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, in the south Asian nation’’s worst such incident.
Google | 2020 Anisuzzaman (1937–2020), Bangladeshi academic of Bengali literature and National Professor of Bangladesh, dies at age 83 in Dhaka. He was an activist who took part in the Language Movement (1952), participated in Mass Uprising (1969), and took part in the War of Liberation (1971).
Google | 2022 BBC Bangla officially ceased broadcasting on radio after eighty-one years of service, following the Parikrama program.
Google | 2023 At least 19 people were killed and 25 injured after a speeding bus skidded off the road and fell into a 30-feet deep ditch in Madaripur, Bangladesh.
Google | 2023 Bangabandhu Tunnel, an underwater expressway tunnel mesuring 3.32-kilometre in the port city of Chittagong connecting Patenga and Anwara under the Karnaphuli river, was inaugurated by prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. It is the first underwater road tunnel of the country.
Google | 2025 Prabir Mitra (1941-2025), Bangladeshi film actor, dies in Dhaka at age 83.
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