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Events on the year of 2007 in history

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01 Jan 2007 Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
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01 Jan 2007 Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Slovenia joins Eurozone.
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04 Jan 2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
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09 Jan 2007 Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone.
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10 Jan 2007 A general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
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12 Jan 2007 Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
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15 Jan 2007 Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
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17 Jan 2007 The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
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18 Jan 2007 The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
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19 Jan 2007 Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
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20 Jan 2007 A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
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22 Jan 2007 At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
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31 Jan 2007 Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
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02 Feb 2007 The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins.
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03 Feb 2007 A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
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13 Feb 2007 Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
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18 Feb 2007 Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.
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23 Feb 2007 A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
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24 Feb 2007 Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
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27 Feb 2007 The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years.
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01 Mar 2007 "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark riots.
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01 Mar 2007 Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at Enterprise High School (Alabama).
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07 Mar 2007 The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
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11 Mar 2007 Georgia claims Russian helicopters attacked the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
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14 Mar 2007 The first World Maths Day was celebrated
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14 Mar 2007 The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead.
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03 Apr 2007 Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
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04 Apr 2007 Fifteen British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
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11 Apr 2007 2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
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12 Apr 2007 A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
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14 Apr 2007 At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey, protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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16 Apr 2007 Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
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18 Apr 2007 A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
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18 Apr 2007 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5–4 decision.
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20 Apr 2007 Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
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25 Apr 2007 Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
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27 Apr 2007 Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
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01 May 2007 The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
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04 May 2007 Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
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12 May 2007 Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
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16 May 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy takes office as President of France.
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17 May 2007 Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
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19 May 2007 President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension.
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08 Jun 2007 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
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19 Jun 2007 The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
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26 Jun 2007 Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive 2/3 of the votes.
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27 Jun 2007 Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997.
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27 Jun 2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
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29 Jun 2007 Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
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01 Jul 2007 The Concert for Diana is held at the new Wembley Stadium in London and broadcast in 140 countries.
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01 Jul 2007 Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
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10 Jul 2007 Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
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12 Jul 2007 U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
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17 Jul 2007 TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the Congonhas-São Paulo Airport runway, killing 199 people.
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25 Jul 2007 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
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26 Jul 2007 Shambo, a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection, causing widespread controversy.
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31 Jul 2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
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01 Aug 2007 The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
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03 Aug 2007 Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
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04 Aug 2007 NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
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12 Aug 2007 The bulk carrier MV New Flame collides with the oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
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14 Aug 2007 The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 796 people.
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15 Aug 2007 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
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29 Aug 2007 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
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04 Sep 2007 Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
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10 Sep 2007 Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
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11 Sep 2007 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
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12 Sep 2007 Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
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13 Sep 2007 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
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14 Sep 2007 Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
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16 Sep 2007 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
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16 Sep 2007 Mercenaries working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad; all criminal charges against them are later dismissed, however they are later tried and convicted of the crime.
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18 Sep 2007 Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
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18 Sep 2007 Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
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20 Sep 2007 Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
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24 Sep 2007 Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
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27 Sep 2007 NASA launches the Dawn probe.
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29 Sep 2007 Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
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02 Oct 2007 President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
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06 Oct 2007 Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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15 Oct 2007 Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
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18 Oct 2007 Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and wounds 450 more. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
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19 Oct 2007 Philippines: A bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.
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22 Oct 2007 Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
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23 Oct 2007 A powerful cold front in the Bay of Campeche causes the Usumacinta jackup rig to collide with Kab 101, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the rig.
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24 Oct 2007 Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
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28 Oct 2007 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
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02 Nov 2007 50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.
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05 Nov 2007 China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
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05 Nov 2007 Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
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29 Nov 2007 The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
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29 Nov 2007 A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affects the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad.
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03 Dec 2007 Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
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05 Dec 2007 Westroads Mall shooting: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska, mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
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07 Dec 2007 The Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit.
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08 Dec 2007 Three unidentified gunmen storm an office of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party in Balochistan. Three PPP supporters are killed.
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11 Dec 2007 Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.
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20 Dec 2007 Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
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20 Dec 2007 The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.
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23 Dec 2007 An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state.
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27 Dec 2007 Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.
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27 Dec 2007 Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.
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