On June 9, 1971, six guerilla freedom fighters were on the way to the Intercontinental Hotel (InterContinental Dacca) in a hijacked Datsun 1000 car around 6:30pm. Shahidullah Khan Badol was driving, while Kamrul Huq Shopon and Masud Sadek Chullu, Habibul Alam, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, and Ziauddin Ali Ahmed were carrying three hand grenades each.
Eminent writer Dilara Hashem has passed away at her home in Washington, United States at the age of 86. Her novel Ghar Mon Janala, which tells the story of Najma, a woman struggling for life in a middle-class society.