In New York City, 40,000 people attend the Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of fundraising concerts organized by former Beatle George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar to raise money for UNICEF to provide humanitarian relief to refugees of the Bangladeshi Genocide.
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Other musical performers for the concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden were Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and the band Badfinger.
Also today, across the Atlantic in London’s Trafalgar Square, a pro-Bangladesh protest attracts 25,000 demonstrators, who demand autonomy and recognition for the new country.