ON THIS DAY

1927: Joseph Stalin’s faction wins at All-Union Congress in Soviet Union, and Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party.

1945: The World Bank is created with an agreement signed by 28 nations.

1972: Australia halts military aid to South Vietnam, ending its role in the Vietnam War.

1979: Soviet forces seize control of Afghanistan.

1985: American naturalist Dian Fossey who studied gorillas in the wild, is found hacked to death in Rwanda.

2007: Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, 54, is among 21 people killed by an attacker.

2015: Iraqi forces celebrate after recapturing Ramadi from Islamic State.

Birthdays: German actress Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992); Australian former leader of Greens Bob Brown (1944-); French actor Gerard Depardieu (1948-).