Historical Events in 2007

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• Jan 1 Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
• Jan 1 Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages.
• Jan 1 Slovenia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the thirteenth Eurozone country.

• Jan 3 High profile Miami Dolphins NFL head coach Nick Saban resigns after agreeing to return to college football and take head coaching job at Alabama
• Jan 3 National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.

• Jan 7 Danish TV drama "The Killing" created by Søren Sveistrup and starring Sofie Gråbøl premieres on DR1

• Jan 12 Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
• Jan 13 Two thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightened as something triggered aerosols to form at a furious rate.

• Jan 15 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.

• Jan 17 Doomsday Clock set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's 1st nuclear test
• Jan 18 Hurricane Kyrill: kills at least 44 in Western Europe: strongest British storm in 17 years kills 14 people, worst German storm since 1999 with 13 deaths and causes container Ship MSC Napoli to be destroyed off coast of Devon
• Jan 19 Armenian journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his "Agos" newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast

• Jan 21 Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark.
• Jan 22 The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada's worst serial killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.

• Jan 30 "Lost Without U" single released by Robin Thicke (Billboard Song of the Year 2007)
• Jan 31 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
• Feb 3 A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.

• Feb 11 A national referendum in Portugal legalises non-therapeutic abortion when requested by the woman during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
• Feb 12 A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people in the Trolley Square shooting.

• Feb 13 Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement when mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for 2008 presidential election.
• Feb 18 49th Daytona 500: Kevin Harvick wins by 0.02s over Mark Martin in the closest finish since the first race at Daytona in 1959
• Feb 19 Blogging website Tumblr is founded by David Karp in New York
• Feb 19 Three Salvadoran deputies to the Central American Parliament and their driver are murdered in Guatemala
• Feb 21 Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.
• Feb 23 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.
• Feb 23 Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.

• Feb 27 The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years
• Feb 27 The general strike against Lansana Conté in Guinea ends
• Feb 28 Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
• Mar 1 "Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots
• Mar 1 Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
• Mar 4 Estonian parliamentary election: approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, world's 1st nationwide vote where part of the vote casting allowed by remote electronic voting
• Mar 6 Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice trial.
• Mar 7 British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected
• Mar 9 The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens

• Mar 18 Former England Test cricket batsman, and Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer is found dead one day after his team's defeat to Ireland puts them out of the World Cup in the West Indies; cause of death remains suspicious

• Mar 23 Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne, Australia
• Mar 23 Iranian Navy seize Royal Navy personnel in Iraqi waters
• Mar 24 The Australian Labor Party is reinstated after the New South Wales state elections.
• Mar 28 Sri Lankan cricket fast bowler Lasith Malinga produces unprecedented sequence of 4 wickets in 4 balls, as South Africa scrambles to a 1-wicket Super 8's ICC World Cup win in Guyana

• Mar 31 In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.

• Apr 3 Conventional train world speed record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets new official world speed record - 574.8 km/h (357 mph)

• Apr 4 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
• Apr 11 Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wounds a further 222

• Apr 16 Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 people and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
• Apr 18 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision
• Apr 20 Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
• Apr 22 Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan's musical "The Producers", based on Brooks' 1967 film , closes at the St. James Theatre, NYC; after 2,502 performances, and 12 Tony Award wins
• Apr 24 Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime

• Apr 26 Queen's Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong's Central district
• Apr 27 Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
• Apr 28 ICC Men's Cricket ODI World Cup, Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados: Australia 3-peat with 53 run win over Sri Lanka; Player of the Match: Adam Gilchrist (AUS) 149 (104) & 2 catches
• Apr 28 NFL Draft: LSU quarterback JaMarcus Russell first pick by Oakland Raiders
• Apr 29 2nd Republic protest in support of state secularism held in Istanbul, Turkey

• May 1 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.
• May 3 British girl Madeleine McCann disappears from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal
• May 4 Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado
• May 4 The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election and becomes the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time ever
• May 5 Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.

• May 7 Ehud Netzer of Hebrew University announces he has discovered the tomb of Herod the Great at Herodium, West Bank

• May 12 Riots in Karachi, Pakistan are started by the arrival at Karachi's airport of independently minded Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and go on to kill 48 people
• May 13 5th Republic protest in support of state secularism held in İzmir, Turkey
• May 13 At 16 years, 65 days Matthew Briggs debuts for Fulham in a 3-1 defeat at Middlesbrough; youngest player to appear in an English Premier League match
• May 13 Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
• May 15 Jerry Sloan leads the Utah Jazz to the Western Conference finals with a win over the Golden State Warriors
• May 16 Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is first Scottish National Party leader to be elected First Minister after winning a historic victory at the Scottish general election on the 3rd May.

• May 17 Demolition work begins at Dublin's famous Lansdowne Road Stadium to be replaced by the new Aviva Stadium, opened in 2010
• May 17 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.

• May 19 In an all South African final the Bulls (Pretoria) edge the home team Sharks, 20-19 in Durban for their first Super 14 Rugby title; Bulls flyhalf Derick Hougaard boots 2 penalties & 2 conversions
• May 21 Cutty Sark, the last surviving tea clipper, is badly damaged by fire in Greenwich, England.

• May 27 60th Cannes Film Festival: "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" directed by Cristian Mungiu wins the Palme d'Or
• May 31 Rihanna releases her breakthrough album "Good Girl Gone Bad"

• Jun 3 USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engages with pirates after they board Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia

• Jun 5 MESSENGER spacecraft performs a second flyby of Venus

• Jun 6 Stanley Cup Final, Honda Center, Anaheim, CA: Anaheim Ducks defeat Ottawa Senators, 6-2 for a 4-1 series win; Ducks' first Championship

• Jun 8 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 trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker

• Jun 10 "The Sopranos" series finale on HBO (infamous "cut to black" ending)
• Jun 10 61st Tony Awards: "Spring Awakening" (musical) & "The Coast of Utopia" (play) win
• Jun 10 Novelty dance song "I'm a Gummy Bear" by German band Gummibär released

• Jun 13 The Al Askari Mosque in Samarra is bombed reportedly by Iraqi Baathists, destroying the mosque's two ten-story minarets

• Jun 24 The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours
• Jun 25 Flooding in parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire in the United Kingdom including Louth, Horncastle and worst affected, Hull

• Jun 27 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
• Jun 28 Craig Biggio of the Houston Astros becomes the 27th member of the 3000 hit club, going 5 for 5 against the Colorado Rockies
• Jun 28 NBA Draft: Ohio State center Greg Oden first pick by Portland Trail Blazers
• Jun 28 Play "August: Osage County", written by Tracy Letts, premieres at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2008) [1]

• Jun 29 Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
• Jun 30 A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack
• Jul 1 England bans smoking in all public indoor spaces: with the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK. Australia implements a similar ban.
• Jul 3 "Just Got Started Lovin' You" single released by James Otto (Billboard Song of the Year 2008)

• Jul 7 Pope Benedict XVI issues the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Tridentine Mass

• Jul 11 15th ESPY Awards: LaDainian Tomlinson, Taryne Mowatt win
• Jul 14 Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
• Jul 15 MLB Philadelphia Phillies lose to visiting St. Louis Cardinals, 10-2 to become the first franchise in major American sport with 10,000 all-time losses
• Jul 16 An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.
• Jul 17 TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with estimated 199 deaths.

• Jul 21 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide. 11 million copies sell in 24 hrs

• Jul 24 Libya frees all six of the Medics in the HIV trial in Libya
• Jul 25 Patrick Kane signs a three-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks
• Jul 25 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's 1st female President
• Jul 27 Two News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were no survivors. Worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
• Jul 31 Boston Celtics obtain former MVP and 10-time All-Star Kevin Garnett in a 7-for-1 deal with Minnesota Timberwolves; then the NBA's biggest ever trade for one player
• Jul 31 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland comes to an end, longest-running British Army operation ever
• Aug 1 Art of the Olympians is awarded 501 (c) (3) status
• Aug 1 The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour

• Aug 4 NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched

• Aug 7 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to break Hank Aaron's long-standing MLB record
• Aug 8 An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.

• Aug 11 Jason Koumas makes his Wigan Athletic debut
• Aug 12 Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
• Aug 14 Coordinated bombings in Yazidi communities in Iraq kill at least 500 people, the second-deadliest terror attack of all time
• Aug 15 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.

• Aug 19 15.12 inches (38.4 cm) rainfall at Hoakh, Minnesota (state record, breaking previous mark after 35 years)
• Aug 19 The Tradition Senior Men's Golf, Crosswater Club: Mark McNulty of Zimbabwe wins lone career major title by 5 strokes from David Edwards
• Aug 21 Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph. Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
• Aug 22 The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
• Aug 22 The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
• Aug 23 Hashtag invented and first used in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina
• Aug 25 1st Women's Snow Polo World Championship takes place in Bariloche, Argentina

• Aug 29 A United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident takes place at Minot Air Force Base and Barksdale Air Force Base.

• Sep 1 Clay Buchholz becomes first Boston Red Sox rookie to pitch a no-hitter. In just his second MLB appearance; beats Baltimore Orioles 10-0 at Fenway Park
• Sep 1 In one of the biggest upsets in college football history, 109,218 fans see Appalachian State's Corey Lynch block a Jason Gingell 37-yard field goal attempt with 6 seconds remaining to inspire an epic 34-32 win v Michigan at Ann Arbor
• Sep 1 Tyson Gay helps US win the men's 4 x 100m relay at the world track & field championships in Osaka, Japan to join Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene as the only men to win 3 gold medals at one world meet
• Sep 3 Panama Canal's "Third Set of Locks" expansion project begins with a huge initial explosion under Paraíso Hill that is watched by thousands of people

• Sep 5 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.

• Sep 11 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.

• Sep 14 Restrictions on the traditional Latin Mass are officially removed in the Roman Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum takes effect.

• Sep 16 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
• Sep 17 AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York City
• Sep 18 Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the 'Saffron Revolution'

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