When it was consecrated on this day in 537 as an Eastern Orthodox church, the Hagia Sophia was the world’s largest church. In subsequent centuries it became a Roman Catholic cathedral, a museum, and a mosque. 537.
Benazir Bhutto—who became prime minister of Pakistan in 1988, making her the first woman leader of a Muslim nation in modern history—was assassinated in Rawalpindi while campaigning for parliamentary elections. 2007.
Rebel forces under Che Guevara routed a Cuban government garrison and captured an armored train filled with weapons and ammunition, helping to bring the Cuban Revolution to an end a few days later. 1958.
The internal passport system, previously denounced by Vladimir Lenin as one of the worst stigmas of tsarist backwardness and despotism, was reinstated in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin. 1932.
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