Benazir Bhutto was born on 21 June 1953 in Karachi. A Pakistani politician, Bhutto was the daughter of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was executed under military rule in 1979. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, she led the Pakistan Peoples Party and in 1988 became prime minister, the first woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority country. She served until 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996, and both governments were dismissed amid allegations of corruption, which she denied. After years in exile she returned to Pakistan in October 2007 to contest elections. She was assassinated in a gun and suicide attack in Rawalpindi on 27 December 2007.
Before and after
- 17 May 1953Birth of Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
- 15 June 1953Birth of Xi Jinping
- from 16 June 1953 to 17 June 1953East German uprising of 1953
- 18 June 1953Tachikawa air disaster
- 21 June 1953Birth of Benazir Bhutto
- 23 June 1953Founding of European People's Party Group
- 26 July 1953Attack on the Moncada Barracks
- 26 July 1953Cuban Revolution
- 17 August 1953Birth of Herta Müller
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