Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
A man who known as a Father of the Nation.(Bangladesh)
(March 17, 1920 - August 15, 1975)
“When you play with a gentleman, you play like a gentleman. But when you play with bastards,
make sure you play like a bigger bastard.
Otherwise, you will lose.”
TIME LINE OF MUJIBUR's LIFE
- 1920 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born in the village of Tungipara under the then Gopalganj Subdivision of the then Faridpur District on March 17, 1920. His father Sheikh Lutfar Rahman and his mother Sheikh Sayera Khatun had four daughters and two sons. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was their third child. His parents used to adoringly call him "Khoka".
- 1927 - At the age of seven in 1927, Sheikh Mujib began his schooling at Gimadanga Primary School.
- 1932 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman married Sheikh Fazilatunnesa (Renu).
- 1942 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman passed Matriculation examination from Gopalganj Missionary School.
- 1943 - In 1943, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was elected councillor of All India Muslim League from Bengal. He continued to serve admirably in this position till the partition of India in 1947.
- 1946 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was elected uncontested as the General Secretary of Islamia College Students Union.
- 1947 - Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman joined Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy's move for a United Independent Bengal as a third free state along with India and Pakistan.
- 1949 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman extended his support to a movement of the Class 4 employees of the University of Dhaka aimed at realizing their rights and job security.
- 1952 - On February 16, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman started a hunger strike unto death that lasted for 11 days and was released on February 27.
- 1954 - Sheikh Mujib won the election from the Gopalganj constituency and took oath on May 15 as Minister for Co-operative and Agricultural Development in the new provincial government.
- 1957 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was re-elected as the General Secretary of the Party at its council meeting held during June 13-14, 1957.
- 1961 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was released from jail after the high court declared his detention unlawful.
- 1962 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was again arrested by the Ayub government on February 6, 1962.
- 1965 - The Pakistani government charged Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with sedition and for making a 'so called' objectionable statements.
- 1968 - On January 3, the Ayub government filed a case, known as the 'Agartala Conspiracy Case' against a number of Bengalis on the charge of treason.
- 1970 - Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Awami League President, urged his countrymen to elect Awami League candidates on the basis of the 6-point demand in the country's first general elections held on December 7, and December 17, barring few seats in the cyclone affected coastal areas in the south.
- 1972 - The Government of Pakistan was forced to release Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on January 8, under immense international pressure.
- 1973 - Led by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Awami League secured 293 seats out of 300 in the Jatiya Sangsad in the first general elections held on March 7 in an independent Bangladesh and subsequently formed a new Government on the basis of the newly framed constitution.
- 1974 - Bangladesh received world recognition by becoming the 136th member of the United Nations on September 17. On September 25, at the 29th General Assembly of the United Nations, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman addressed the world in Bangla, the first ever Bangla speech delivered at the UN.
- 1975 - Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of Bangladesh, was assassinated by a handful of army renegades as part of a larger national and international political conspiracy hatched by anti-liberation forces in the pre-dawn hours of August 15.