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Date	Event
January 1, 2007	Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.
January 1, 2007	Adam Air Flight 574 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes near the Makassar Strait, Indonesia, killing all 102 people on board.
January 4, 2007	The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
January 9, 2007	Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
January 10, 2007	A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
January 12, 2007	Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), one of the brightest comets ever observed is at its zenith visible during the day.
January 17, 2007	The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing.
January 18, 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. Cyclone Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
January 19, 2007	Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
January 19, 2007	Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
January 22, 2007	At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
February 2, 2007	Police officer Filippo Raciti is killed when a clash breaks out in the Sicily derby between Catania and Palermo, in the Serie A, the top flight of Italian football. This event led to major changes in stadium regulations in Italy.
February 3, 2007	A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
February 13, 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.
February 23, 2007	A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 88. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
February 24, 2007	Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
February 27, 2007	Chinese stock bubble of 2007: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest daily fall in ten years, following speculation about a crackdown on illegal share offerings and trading, and fears about accelerating inflation.
March 1, 2007	Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.
March 7, 2007	Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
March 7, 2007	Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.
March 14, 2007	The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people.
April 3, 2007	Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
April 5, 2007	The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.
April 11, 2007	Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
April 12, 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.
April 16, 2007	Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
April 20, 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.
April 25, 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.
April 27, 2007	Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
April 27, 2007	Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
May 3, 2007	The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
May 4, 2007	Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
May 5, 2007	Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
May 17, 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.
May 19, 2007	President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension.
June 8, 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.
June 11, 2007	Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.
June 13, 2007	The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time.
June 15, 2007	The Nokkakivi Amusement Park is opened in Lievestuore, Laukaa, Finland.
June 18, 2007	The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine firefighters.
June 19, 2007	The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
June 26, 2007	Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
June 27, 2007	Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. His Chancellor, Gordon Brown succeeds him.
June 27, 2007	The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
June 29, 2007	Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
June 30, 2007	A Jeep Cherokee filled with propane canisters drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, Scotland in a failed terrorist attack. This was linked to the 2007 London car bombs that had taken place the day before.
July 1, 2007	Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
July 7, 2007	The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
July 10, 2007	Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
July 12, 2007	U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet.
July 16, 2007	An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
July 17, 2007	TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.
July 25, 2007	Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
July 31, 2007	Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
August 1, 2007	The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145.
August 3, 2007	Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.
August 4, 2007	NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched.
August 7, 2007	At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record.
August 8, 2007	An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
August 9, 2007	Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashes after takeoff from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 20 people on board.
August 14, 2007	The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 500 people.
August 15, 2007	An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
August 20, 2007	China Airlines Flight 120 catches fire and explodes after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.
August 22, 2007	The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.
August 23, 2007	The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
September 4, 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.
September 6, 2007	Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
September 10, 2007	Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
September 11, 2007	Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.
September 12, 2007	Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.
September 12, 2007	Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people and injuring 161.
September 13, 2007	The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
September 13, 2007	The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million, and excluded from the constructors' championship standings.
September 14, 2007	Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.
September 16, 2007	One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.
September 16, 2007	Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
September 18, 2007	Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
September 20, 2007	Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters march on Jena, Louisiana, United States, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
September 24, 2007	Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
September 27, 2007	NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.
September 29, 2007	Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
October 2, 2007	President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
October 6, 2007	Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
October 9, 2007	The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2007-2008 financial crises.
October 10, 2007	Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11.
October 15, 2007	Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
October 18, 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.
October 22, 2007	A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos, with all except one dying in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and ten damaged.
October 23, 2007	A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform.
October 24, 2007	Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
October 28, 2007	Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.
November 5, 2007	China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
November 5, 2007	The Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
November 7, 2007	The Jokela school shooting in Jokela, Tuusula, Finland, takes place, resulting in the death of nine people.
November 15, 2007	Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
November 23, 2007	MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities.
November 29, 2007	The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
December 3, 2007	Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 32-kilometre (20 mi) portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
December 5, 2007	Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills nine people, including himself, with a WASR-10 at a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.
December 11, 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.
December 13, 2007	The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by the EU member states to amend both the Treaty of Rome and the Maastricht Treaty which together form the constitutional basis of the EU. The Treaty of Lisbon is effective from 1 December 2009.
December 20, 2007	Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch in the history of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years and 243 days.
December 20, 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 in Brazil. Both will be recovered a few weeks later.
December 23, 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.
December 27, 2007	Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.
December 27, 2007	Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis.