Election of Bhutto as Pakistan’s prime minister
Benazir Bhutto, elected prime minister of Pakistan on this day in 1988, became the first woman in modern history to lead a Muslim country, serving as prime minister from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996. 1988.
American economist Milton Friedman, who was a leading proponent of monetarism and won the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics, died at age 94. 2006.
British explorer David Livingstone was the first European to see Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya). 1855.
