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Events
1820 - Egyptian forces, led by Mohammad Ali Pasha, invade Sudan and occupy large parts of the country.
1830 - French troops invade Algeria. But the Algerian people were vocal from the beginning against the French aggression.
1839 - The first Bengali daily Sangbad Prabhakar is edited by Ishwar Gupta.
1839 - The foundation stone of Bangla Pathshala is laid in Calcutta.
1855 - The second volume of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's Varna Parichay is published.
1906 - Women's suffrage is recognized in Norway.
1926 - British women's suffrage is recognized.
1949 - Establishment of the Vietnamese state of Saigal under former Bao Dai.
1983 - Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first female astronaut, launches into space.
1985 - Establishment of Bangladesh's first ground satellite at Betbunia.
1962 - Falklands War ends.
1991 - The historic city of Leningrad is renamed Petersburg.
1993 - Tansu Silar is elected Turkey's first female prime minister.
1995 - The first World Blood Donor Day is celebrated by the International Blood Donor Federation.
1997 - Explosion and fire at the Magurchhara gas field in Sylhet.
1999 - First mass grave found in Kosovo. 61 skeletons recovered.
Born
1836 - Birth of Charles Augustine Coulomb, French physicist.
185 - Birth of Heinrich Louis the Arrest, German scientist and inventor of Neptune.
1918 - Birth of Binoy Ghosh, a sociologist and literary critic.
1926 - Birth of Cuban revolutionary leader Ernesto Che Guevara.
1932 - Birth of the poet Hasan Hafizur Rahman.
1947 - Birth of Bangladeshi writer Selina Hossain.
Death
1556 - Death of Sultan Ghiyasuddin Balban.
17 - Famous Russian writer Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky dies.
1928 - Death of English writer Jerome K. Jerome.
1948 - Death of John Baird, inventor of the television.
197 - Famous Latin American writer Khurkha Luis Burkhas dies.
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