1970s In Bangladesh
File:BD70s Montage.png, A montage of notable people of and events of Bangladesh in the 1970s including (clockwise from top left): Image of the 1970 Bhola cyclone, Bhola cyclone taken on 11 November 1970; Pakistan's sank in 1971 during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971; Lt Gen Niazi signing the Pakistani Instrument of Surrender, Instrument of Surrender under the gaze of Lt Gen Aurora at Dhaka on 16 December 1971; President Ziaur Rahman; Bangladesh PM Sheikh Mujib and US President Gerald Ford meeting in the Oval Office in 1974; and a poster portraying a Freedom Fighter in Bangladesh Liberation War., 420px, thumb rect 231 4 600 180 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 rect 2 2 230 180 1970 Bhola cyclone rect 231 184 600 360 Pakistani Instrument of Surrender rect 2 182 230 360 Bangladesh Liberation War rect 330 360 600 540 Ziaur Rahman rect 0 360 305 540 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman The 1970s (pronounced "nineteen-seventies", commonly abbreviated as the "Seventies") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar tha ...
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1970 Bhola Cyclone
The 1970 Bhola cyclone (Also known as the Great Cyclone of 1970) was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on November 11, 1970. It remains the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded and one of the world's deadliest natural disasters. At least 300,000 people lost their lives in the storm, possibly as many as 500,000, primarily as a result of the storm surge that flooded much of the low-lying islands of the Ganges Delta. Bhola was the sixth and strongest cyclonic storm of the 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. The cyclone formed over the central Bay of Bengal on November 8 and traveled northward, intensifying as it did so. It reached its peak with winds of on November 10, and made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan on the following afternoon. The storm surge devastated many of the offshore islands, wiping out villages and destroying crops throughout the region. In the most severely affected upazila, ...
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