Benazir Bhutto died on 27 December 2007 in Benazir Bhutto Hospital, aged 54. 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.
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- 24 October 2007Launch of Chang'e 1
- 5 November 2007Release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- from 7 December 2007 to 12 December 2007Battle of Musa Qala
- 13 December 2007Treaty of Lisbon
- 27 December 2007Death of Benazir Bhutto
- 2008Origins of Kontinental Hockey League
- 2008Rise of The Zeitgeist Movement
- 2008Launch of Encyclopedia of Life
- 11 January 2008Death of Edmund Hillary
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