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2007 (
MMVII ) is the current year, a
common year starting on Monday of the
Gregorian calendar and the
Anno Domini (
common ) era. It is the 7th year in the
21st century and in the
3rd millennium , both of which began on
January 1 ,
2001 .
The year 2007 has been designated:
UNESCO has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.[5]
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April
2 Scheduled events
2.1 April 2.2 May 2.3 June 2.4 July 2.5 August 2.6 September 2.7 October 2.8 November 2.9 December 2.10 Unknown dates
3 Births 4 Deaths
4.1 January 4.2 February 4.3 March 4.4 April
5 Holidays 6 References
Events January January 1 - Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union .
January 1 - The Irish language becomes an official and working language of the European Union .
January 1 - Slovenia adopts the Euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar .
January 1 - South Korea 's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new UN Secretary-General , replacing Kofi Annan .
January 1 - Adam Air Flight 574 , a routine domestic flight in Indonesia , disappears; debris is found 10 days later, but the aircraft remains missing.
January 1 - Angola joins OPEC .
January 1 - War in Somalia : Fighters of the Islamic Courts Union abandoned their last stronghold in Kismayo and fled for the Kenyan border .
January 3 - Former U.S. president Gerald Ford was buried in Grand Rapids, Michigan .
January 3 - China conducted an anti-terror raid in Xinjiang .
January 4 - Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman Speaker of the House in the United States.
January 5 - War in Somalia : The first shots were fired in the battle for control of the border town of Ras Kamboni .
January 5 - BC Place 's domed roof deflated in Vancouver .
January 7 - Stanisław Wielgus , the newly appointed Archbishop of Warsaw , resigned after it was revealed that he cooperated with the former communist regime's secret police .
January 8 - Lotte World in Seoul , South Korea , the world's largest indoor theme park , was closed indefinitely due to structural damage.
January 8 - Russian oil supplies to Poland , Germany , and Ukraine were cut as the Russia-Belarus energy dispute escalated – restored three days later.
January 9 - The 2007 MacWorld Expo opened in San Francisco . Apple Computer unveiled the iPhone , a mobile phone /iPod hybrid.
January 9 - War in Somalia : U.S. planes conducted air strikes against suspected terrorists , possibly having killed senior Al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed .
January 9 - An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashed in Balad , Iraq . The Islamic Army in Iraq claimed to have shot it down.
January 10 - U.S. President George W. Bush announced a plan to station 21,500 additional troops into Iraq .
January 11 - In Bangladesh , a state of emergency was declared by caretaker President Iajuddin Ahmed , following weeks of violent protests preceding upcoming parliamentary elections .
January 11 - World football (soccer) superstar David Beckham announced that he will leave Real Madrid to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy of the MLS .
January 11 - Vietnam joined World Trade Organization as its 150th member.
January 11 - China tested a ground-based ballistic missile that destroyed one of its own weather satellites , the Fengyun , in space, drawing criticisms from other countries.
January 12 - An Argentine judge issued a warrant for the arrest of former President Isabel Martínez de Perón in connection with the disappearance of a human rights worker in 1976 .
January 12 - The US embassy in Athens was attacked with a rocket propelled grenade , which caused minimal damage and no injuries.
January 13 - The Greek ship Server broke in half off the Norwegian coast, which released over 200 tons of crude oil .
January 14 - The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement officially adopted the Red Crystal as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations.
January 14 - Nazanin Fatehi , a nineteen year old Iranian girl previously sentenced to death for killing a man she claimed tried to rape her, was exonerated, as her re-trial came to an end.
January 15 - The Sentosa Express monorail opened in Singapore .
January 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, were executed by hanging in Iraq.
January 17 - Hurricane force winds from storm Kyrill claimed at least forty lives in western Europe
January 17 - Protests occurred in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of Celebrity Big Brother Jade Goody , Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were alleged to have been racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty .
January 18 - Comet McNaught , the brightest comet to have appeared in over forty years, becames visible over the Southern Hemisphere .
January 19 - Israel released 100 million[citation needed ] Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority in order to bolster the president's position.
January 22 - A bombing in a market in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 88 people.
January 23 - United States President, George W. Bush , gave the annual State of the Union Address .
January 24 - The Israeli Ministry of Justice announced that the President of Israel , Moshe Katsav , was to be charged with rape and abuse of power.
January 25 - The President of Israel , Moshe Katsav , took a temporary leave of absence due to a sex scandal .
January 27 - Thousands of anti-Iraq War protesters converged on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. .
January 28 - A battle between insurgents and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops killed 300 suspected terrorists in Najaf , Iraq .
January 29 - A suicide bomber killed three people in a bakery in Eilat , Israel .
January 29 - The Princeton Community Works was held in Princeton University , Princeton, New Jersey .
January 30 - Windows Vista , Microsoft 's newest NT-based operating system , was released world-wide to consumers.
January 31 - The Venezuelan National Assembly gave President Hugo Chávez the power to rule by decree for eighteen months.
January 31 - Creditors of Delta Air Lines officially rejected US Airways hostile takeover bid.
January 31 - The Mooninite scare occurred in Boston where devices used in a guerrilla marketing campaign for a film were mistaken for improvised explosive devices .
January 31 - Lord Levy , a UK Labour Party fundraiser, was re-arrested for conspiracy in relation to the 'cash for peerages ' investigation.
February February 1 - British Prime Minister , Tony Blair , was questioned for a second time in the 'cash for peerages ' probe as a witness.
February 2 - An unseasonal tornado in central Florida killed at least 20 people.
February 2 - A policeman was killed in the Catania football clashes in Italy and 71 people are hopitalized.
February 2 - Palestinian factional violence : Hamas and its rival Fatah renewed their truce after violence broke out following the initial ceasefire.
February 2 - Chinese President Hu Jintao signed a series of economic deals with Sudan .
February 2 - War in Somalia : Eight people were killed in a mortar attack in Somalia 's capital Mogadishu .
February 2 - Martti Ahtisaari unveiled a United Nations plan for the final status of Kosovo ; Serbian leaders denounced the proposal.
February 2 - The IPCC published its fourth assessment report , having concluded that global climate change is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.
February 3 - The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk .
February 3 - State of Emergency was declared in Boliva after 'El Nino '-like flooding.
February 3 - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi cancelled all football matches in Italy whilst an investigation into riots on February 2 began.
February 3 - Five people were killed and 40 were injured in a series of car bombs in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk .
February 3 - A truck bombing in a crowded Baghdad market killed at least 135 people and injured a further 339 others.
February 4 - The Indianapolis Colts defeated the Chicago Bears 29 – 17 in Super Bowl XLI , played at Dolphin Stadium , Miami .
February 10 - U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois announced a presidential bid in Springfield .
February 11 - Portuguese voters agreed to legalise abortion in a national referendum .
February 11 - The 49th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
February 13 - Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigned as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after having been indicted on charges of embezzlement; Ma also announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election .
February 17 - Nova V1280 Scorpii peaked at 3.9 magnitude – discovered February 4 .
February 18 - Chinese New Year : the Year of the Pig began.
February 18 - Melbourne Victory beat Adelaide United 6-0 in the 2006-2007 A-League Grand Final at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne , Australia .
February 18 - Canadian Government paid its Chinese Head Tax victims up to $20,000 each.
February 19 - North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear program, for oil.
February 25 - The European Space Agency confirmed Rosetta's successful Mars trajectory fly-by .
February 26 - The International Court of Justice found Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre , but cleared it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case .
February 27 - World stock markets plummeted after China and Europe released less-than-expected growth reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 416.02 points, its largest single-day decline since the September 11, 2001 attacks .
February 28 - The New Horizons space probe made a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter which changed its trajectory towards Pluto .
March March 1 - International Polar Year , a $1.5 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole was launched in Paris .
March 1 - Airbus announced that it would cease work indefinitely on the A380F freight aircraft.
March 3 -March 4 - Total lunar eclipse .
March 4 - Parliamentary elections took place in Estonia and in Abkhazia .
March 6 - Mega Millions highest jackpot of US$370 million.
March 7 - Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 , a Boeing 737-400 , crashed at Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java killing many on board.
March 7 - Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007 , was held.
March 8 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted that Israel had planned an attack on Lebanon in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before Hezbollah carried out its kidnapping.
March 9 - The keys of Wembley Stadium , England, were handed over to The FA , on completion of the new venue.
March 11 - Daylight saving time in most of the United States and Canada began; three to four weeks earlier than previously.
March 13 - The Bank of England replaces the £20 note bearing the portrait of Edward Elgar with one featuring Adam Smith .
March 14 - Local number portability began in Canada.
March 14 - Pi Day
March 15 - March 21 - CeBIT 2007 took place in Hannover , Germany .
March 16 - For the first time in the 23-year history of the popular gameshow Jeopardy! , a three-way tie occurred.
March 17 - Chlorine bombs injured hundreds in Baghdad, Iraq .
March 17 - France won the 2007 Six Nations Championship on points difference after a controversial tri.
March 18 - A parliamentary election took place in Finland .
March 19 - Partial solar eclipse visible in Asia and Alaska.
March 21 - Baha'i New Year.
March 21 - Iranian New Year 1386 Begins at 00:07:26 (GMT)
March 21 - Heavy fighting took place in the outskirts of Mogadishu , Somalia .
March 22 - NATO troops launch two assaults in Helmand Province , Afghanistan , killing 38 Taliban terrorists. NATO suffers no casualties.
March 22 - Jamaican police announce that they are launching a murder investigation into the death of Pakistan Cricket Coach Bob Woolmer after a post mortem revealed that he died due to asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation.
March 23 - Naval forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard seize Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters.
March 24 - A legislative election took place in the Australian state of New South Wales , with Morris Iemma 's Labor government being returned to power with a reduced minority.
March 24 - The 400th birthday of admiral Michiel de Ruyter celebrated in the Netherlands .
March 25 - In Berlin 27 European ministers celebrate 50 year Treaty of Rome .
March 25 - Daylight savings begins in Europe
March 25 - Australia's first ring road , the Sydney Orbital Motorway , is completed with the opening of the Lane Cove Tunnel , linking the M2 Motorway with the Gore Hill Freeway in Sydney 's North. [1] .
March 25 - This day marked the 200th anniversary of the finalization of the 1807 Slave trade act , which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire .
March 26 - After 50 years, Dr. Ian Paisley agrees to power-sharing in Northern Ireland
March 26 - A National Assembly election takes place in the Canadian province of Québec . The Liberal Party (le Parti Libéral du Québec) wins the elections with 48 seats out of 125 and forms a minority government.
March 28 - Former MLB pitcher Ugueth Urbina sentenced to 14 years in prison.
March 29 - Father Nguyen Van Ly , a Roman Catholic priest in Vietnam was jailed for eight years for involvement in pro-democracy Bloc 8406 .
30 March - An Air Link cargo plane carrying newspapers crashes in West New Britain , Papua New Guinea . Both pilots are killed.
March 31 - Milad un Nabi , celebration of the birthday of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad .
March 31 - Sydney, Australia , turned off its lights for one hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a political statement for Global Climate Change .
April April 2 - Smoking in public and work places is banned in Wales .
April 2 - 25th Anniversary of the
