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'''2007''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MMVII]]''') is a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. It will be celebrated as the [[International Polar Year]] and the [[International Heliophysical Year]].
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Year '''2007''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MMVII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]] in the [[21st century]].
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The year 2007 was designated:
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* [[UNESCO]] Officially Named 2007 "[[Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi|Year of Rumi]]".<ref>[http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C12%5C12%5Cstory_12-12-2006_pg11_9 UNESCO names 2007 ‘Year of Rumi’] (''Daily Times'')</ref>
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* In the [[lunar calendar]] (or [[Chinese Calendar]]), dates from [[February 18]] onwards are in the [[boar (zodiac)|Year of the Boar]] (or Pig)
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* [[International Polar Year]]<ref>[http://www.ipy.org/ International Polar Year website]</ref>
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* [[International Heliophysical Year]]<ref>[http://ihy2007.org/ International Heliophysical Year website]</ref>
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* [[European Year of Equal Opportunities for All]]<ref>[http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/eyeq/index.cfm?language=EN European Year of Equal Opportunities for All website]</ref>
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* [[Year of the Dolphin]]<ref>[http://www.yod2007.org/en/Start_page/index.html Year of the Dolphin website]</ref>
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* [[Highland 2007]]
  
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''Also see: [[Current events#Past events by month|Wikipedia's almanac]] of events for this year.''
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[[UNESCO]] has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.<ref>[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001457/145755M.pdf Celebration of anniversaries with which UNESCO will be associated in 2006–2007]</ref>
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==Events of 2007==
 
===January===
 
===January===
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** [[Accession of Bulgaria to the European Union|Bulgaria]] and [[Accession of Romania to the European Union|Romania]] [[Enlargement of the European Union|will join]] the [[European Union]].
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* [[January 1]] - [[Accession of Bulgaria to the European Union|Bulgaria]] and [[Accession of Romania to the European Union|Romania]] [[Enlargement of the European Union|join]] the [[European Union]].  
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** [[Irish language|Irish]] will become an [[Languages of the European Union|official working language of the European Union]].
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* [[January 1]] - [[Slovenia]] adopts the [[euro]] as its official currency, replacing the [[Slovenian tolar|tolar]].
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** [[Slovenia]] will adopt the [[euro]] as its official currency, replacing the [[Slovenian tolar|tolar]].
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* [[January 1]] - [[South Korea]]'s [[Ban Ki-moon]] becomes the new [[United Nations Secretary-General]], replacing [[Kofi Annan]].
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** The [[International Standard Book Number]] (ISBN) code will increase in length from 10 to 13 digits.
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* [[January 1]] - [[Hong Kong]]'s new [[smoking ban]] starts. From this day onwards, smoking is prohibited in clubs, karaoke bars, restaurants, and all public places.
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** [[Russia]] will be composed of 86 federal subjects instead of 88, as [[Evenkia]] and [[Taymyria]] are merged into [[Krasnoyarsk]] per a [[2005]] referendum.
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* [[January 1]] - [[Adam Air Flight 574]], a routine domestic flight in [[Indonesia]], disappears; debris are found 10 days later, but the aircraft remains missing.
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** [[South Korea|South Korea's]] [[Ban Ki-moon]] will become the new [[UN Secretary-General]], replacing [[Kofi Annan]].
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* [[January 1]] - [[Angola]] joins [[OPEC]].
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* [[January 3]] - The [[110th United States Congress]] will be sworn in.
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* [[January 1]] - [[War in Somalia (2006 – present)|War in Somalia]]: Fighters of the [[Islamic Courts Union]] abandon their last stronghold in [[Fall of Kismayo|Kismayo]] and flee for the [[Ras Kamboni|Kenyan border]].
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* [[January 30]] - [[Microsoft]] is scheduled to release the latest consumer edition of their new [[operating system]], [[Windows Vista]].
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* [[January 2]] - The new constitution of [[Gibraltar]] came into force. [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gi.html#Govt]
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* [[January 3]] - [[People's Republic of China|China]] conducts an [[Xinjiang raid (January 2007)|anti-terror raid]] in [[Xinjiang]].
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[[Image:Nancy Pelosi.jpeg|120px|thumb|[[Nancy Pelosi]]]]
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* [[January 4]] - [[Nancy Pelosi]] becomes the first female [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|speaker]] of the [[United States House of Representatives]].
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* [[January 5]] - [[War in Somalia (2006 – present)|War in Somalia]]: The first shots are fired in the [[Battle of Ras Kamboni|battle for control]] of the border town of [[Ras Kamboni]].
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* [[January 5]] - [[Taiwan High Speed Rail]] open between [[Taipei]] and [[Kaohsiung]].
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* [[January 8]] - [[Russia]]n oil supplies to [[Poland]], [[Germany]], and [[Ukraine]] are cut as the [[Russia-Belarus energy dispute]] escalates; restored 3 days later.
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* [[January 9]] - [[War in Somalia (2006 – present)|War in Somalia]]: U.S. planes conduct [[Battle of Ras Kamboni|air strikes in Somalia against suspected terrorists]].
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* [[January 9]] - An [[AerianTur-M]] [[Antonov]] [[Antonov An-26|An-26]] [[2007 Balad aircraft crash|crashes]] in [[Balad, Iraq|Balad]], [[Iraq]]. The [[Islamic Army in Iraq]] claims to have shot it down.
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* [[January 9]] - [[Apple Inc.]] announces and introduces the highly speculated [[iPhone]] at the 2007 [[Macworld Conference & Expo]]
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* [[January 10]] - [[United States|U.S.]] [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] announces a plan to station 21,500 additional troops in [[Iraq]].
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* [[January 11]] - In [[Bangladesh]], a state of emergency is declared by caretaker President [[Iajuddin Ahmed]], following weeks of violent protests preceding upcoming [[Bangladeshi parliamentary election, 2007|parliamentary elections]].
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* [[January 11]] - [[Vietnam]] joins the [[World Trade Organization]] as its 150th member.
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* [[January 11]] - [[People's Republic of China|China]] successfully tests a ground-based [[ballistic missile]] capable of destroying satellites in orbit, drawing criticisms from other countries.
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* [[January 12]] - An [[Argentina|Argentine]] judge issues a warrant for the arrest of former [[President of Argentina|President]] [[Isabel Martínez de Perón]] in connection with the disappearance of a [[human rights]] worker in [[1976]].
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* [[January 12]] - The US Embassy in [[Athens]] is attacked with a [[rocket propelled grenade]], which caused minimal damage and no injuries.
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* [[January 12]] - [[Comet McNaught]], the brightest comet in over 40 years, makes [[perihelion]].
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* [[January 13]] - The Greek ship ''Server'' breaks in half off the [[Norway|Norwegian]] coast, releasing over 200 tons of crude [[oil]].
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* [[January 14]] - The [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement]] officially adopts the [[Emblems of the Red Cross|Red Crystal]] as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations.
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* [[January 14]] - [[Nazanin Fatehi]], a 19 year old [[Iran]]ian girl previously [[Capital Punishment|sentenced to death]] for killing a man she claimed tried to [[rape]] her niece, is exonerated, as her re-trial comes to an end
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* [[January 17]] - [[Hurricane]] force winds from [[Kyrill (storm)|storm Kyrill]] claim at least 40 lives in western [[Europe]].
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* [[January 17]] - Protests occur in [[India]] and the [[United Kingdom]] against the British series of [[Celebrity Big Brother 2007 (UK)|''Celebrity Big Brother'']] after [[Jade Goody]], [[Danielle Lloyd]] and [[Jo O'Meara]] were alleged to have been racially abusive towards [[Bollywood]] star [[Shilpa Shetty]].
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* [[January 17]] - [[Doomsday Clock]] is set to 5 minutes to midnight.
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* [[January 18]] - [[Comet McNaught]], the brightest [[comet]] to appear in over 40 years, becomes visible over the [[Southern Hemisphere]].
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[[Image:STMeurope018 MO.jpg|thumb|[[Kyrill (storm)|Hurricane Kyrill]] creates havoc as it passes across northern Europe.]]
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* [[January 18]] - The strongest storm in the [[UK]] for 17 years kills 14 people, [[Germany]] sees the worst storm since [[1999]] with 13 deaths. [[Hurricane]] [[Kyrill (storm)|Kyrill]], caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in [[Western Europe]]. Other losses include the [[Container Ship]] [[MSC Napoli]] destroyed by the storm of the coast of [[Devon]], [[England]].
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* [[January 19]] - [[Israel]] released $100 million in frozen assets to President [[Mahmoud Abbas]] of the [[Palestinian National Authority]] in order to bolster the president's position. [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/23/tww.01.html]
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* [[January 21]] - [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] [[Asashoryu]] won the [[Emperor's Cup]] at the New Year's Grand [[Sumo]] Tournament (Hatsu Basho) in [[Tokyo]], Japan.
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* [[January 22]] - A [[22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings|bombing in a market]] in Baghdad, Iraq kills 88 people.
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* [[January 24]] - The [[Israel]]i [[Justice Minister|Ministry of Justice]] announces that the [[President of Israel]], [[Moshe Katsav]], will be charged with [[rape]] and abuse of power.
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* [[January 25]] - The [[President of Israel]], [[Moshe Katsav]], takes a temporary [[leave of absence]] due to a [[sex scandal]].
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* [[January 28]] - A [[Battle of Najaf (2007)|battle]] between [[Iraqi insurgency|insurgents]] and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops kills 300 suspected terrorists in [[Najaf]], [[Iraq]].
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* [[January 28]] - [[February 4]] - The [[2007 Asian Winter Games]] are held in [[Changchun]], [[People's Republic of China|China]].
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* [[January 29]] - A [[suicide bomber]] kills three people in a bakery in [[Eilat]], [[Israel]].
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* [[January 30]] - [[Microsoft]] releases [[Windows Vista]] and [[Office 2007]]
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* [[January 31]] - The [[Venezuela]]n [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] gives President [[Hugo Chávez]] the power to [[rule by decree]] for 18 months.
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* [[January 31]] - [[Delta Air Lines]] creditors officially reject [[US Airways]]' [[takeover|hostile takeover]] bid.
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* [[January 31]] - The [[2007 Boston Mooninite Scare|Mooninite scare occurs in Boston]] when devices used in a [[guerrilla marketing]] campaign for the animated television series ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' are mistaken for [[improvised explosive devices]].
  
 
===February===
 
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* [[February 3]]-[[February 18]] - The [[Alpine World Ski Championships 2007]] will be held in [[Åre]], [[Sweden]].
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* [[February 4]] - [[Super Bowl XLI]] will be held in [[Miami, Florida]].
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* [[February 1]] - [[British Prime Minister]] [[Tony Blair]] is questioned for a second time in the '[[cash for peerages]] (Cash for Honours)' probe as a witness.
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* [[February 25]] - The [[79th Academy Awards]] will take place at the [[Kodak Theatre]] in [[Hollywood]].
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* [[February 2]] - An [[2007 Central Florida tornadoes|unseasonal tornado in central Florida]] kills at least 20 people.
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* [[February 28]] - The [[New Horizons]] [[space probe]] will make a [[gravitational slingshot]] against [[Jupiter]] to change its trajectory towards [[Pluto]].
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* [[February 2]] - [[Palestinian factional violence]]: [[Hamas]] and its rival [[Fatah]] renew their truce after violence broke out following the initial ceasefire.
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* [[February 2]] - [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] President [[Hu Jintao]] signs a series of economic deals with [[Sudan]].
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* [[February 2]] - [[War in Somalia (2006–present)|War in Somalia]]: Eight people are killed in a mortar attack in [[Somalia]]'s capital [[Mogadishu]].
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* [[February 2]] - [[Martti Ahtisaari]] unveils a [[United Nations]] plan for the final status of [[Kosovo]]; [[Serbia]]n leaders denounce the proposal.
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* [[February 2]] - The [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change|IPCC]] publishes its [[IPCC Fourth Assessment Report|fourth assessment report]], having concluded that [[global climate change]] is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.
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* [[February 3]] - The deadly [[H5N1]] strain of [[Avian influenza|bird flu]] is found at a ''[[Bernard Matthews]]'' [[Turkey (bird)|turkey]] farm in [[Suffolk]].
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* [[February 3]] - [[State of Emergency]] is declared in [[Indonesia]] after '[[El Nino]]'-like flooding.
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* [[February 3]] - A [[3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing|truck bombing]] in a crowded [[Baghdad]] market kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339 others.
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* [[February 4]] - The [[Indianapolis Colts]] defeat the [[Chicago Bears]] 29-17 in [[Super Bowl XLI]], played at [[Dolphin Stadium]], [[Miami]].
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* [[February 7]] - [[Sharon Osbourne]] announces that [[Ozzfest#Free fest|Ozzfest 2007]] is free.
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* [[February 10]] - [[U.S. Senator]] [[Barack Obama]] of [[Illinois]] announces a [[President of the United States|presidential]] bid in [[Springfield, Illinois]].
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* [[February 11]] - [[Portugal|Portuguese]] voters agree to legalise [[abortion]] in a national [[referendum]].
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* [[February 11]] - The [[49th Annual Grammy Awards]] take place at the [[Staples Center]] in Los Angeles.
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* [[February 12]] - An armed gunman shoots and kills five people at the [[Trolley Square Mall]] in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to six.
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* [[February 13]] - [[North Korea]] agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.<ref>http://english.kbs.co.kr/news/newsview_sub.php?menu=1&key=2007021324</ref>
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* [[February 13]] - [[Republic of China|Taiwan]] opposition leader [[Ma Ying-jeou]] resigns as the chairman of the [[Kuomintang]] party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement; Ma also announces his candidacy for the [[Republic of China presidential election, 2008|2008 presidential election]].
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* [[February 22]] - A Large fire causes 26 fatalities in care center "Reģi" which is located in [[Alsunga]], [[Latvia]].
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* [[February 25]] - The [[European Space Agency]] confirms [[Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta's]] successful Mars trajectory [[Planetary flyby|fly-by]].
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* [[February 25]] - The [[79th Academy Awards]] ceremony, hosted by [[Ellen DeGeneres]], takes place at the [[Kodak Theater]] in [[Hollywood]]. ''[[The Departed]]'' wins [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
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* [[February 26]] - The [[International Court of Justice]] finds [[Serbia]] guilty of failing to prevent [[genocide]] in the [[Srebrenica massacre]], but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in [[Bosnian genocide case at the International Court of Justice|the case]].
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* [[February 27]] - [[The Chinese Correction]]: world [[stock market]]s plummet after China and Europe release less-than-expected growth reports.
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* [[February 27]] - [[2007 Bagram Air Base bombing]]: A [[Taliban]] suicide attack at Bagram Air Base while Vice President of the United States [[Dick Cheney]] is visiting kills 23, but he is not injured.
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* [[February 28]] - The [[New Horizons]] [[space probe]] makes a [[gravitational slingshot]] against [[Jupiter]] which changes its trajectory towards [[Pluto]].
  
 
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*[[March 2]]-[[March 4]] - The [[2007 European Indoor Athletics Championships]] will take place at the [[National Indoor Arena]], [[Birmingham]], [[England]] ([[UK]]).
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* [[March 3]]-[[March 4]] - Total [[lunar eclipse]].
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* March - [[India]]'s [[Five-Year Plans of India|10th Five Year Plan]] comes to an end.
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* [[March 11]] - [[Daylight saving time]] in the [[United States]] and most of [[Canada]] will begin, four to five weeks ahead of the previous schedule, in accordance with the [[Energy Policy Act of 2005]].
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* [[March 1]] - [[International Polar Year]], a $1.5 billion research program to study both the [[North Pole]] and [[South Pole]], is launched in [[Paris]].
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* [[March 11]]-[[April 28]] - The [[2007 Cricket World Cup]] will be held in the [[West Indies]].
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* [[March 1]] - [[Airbus]] announces that it will cease work indefinitely on the [[A380F]] freight aircraft.
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* [[March 18]]-[[April 1]] - The [[2007 World Aquatics Championships]] will be held in [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]].
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* [[March 3]] - Total [[3 March 2007 lunar eclipse|lunar eclipse]].
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* [[March 19]] - Partial [[solar eclipse]].
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* [[March 3]] - Mixed martial artist [[Randy Couture]] wins the [[Ultimate Fighting Championship|UFC]] heavyweight championship at the age of 43 in the main event of [[UFC 68]].
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* [[March 24]] - A [[New South Wales legislative election, 2007|legislative election]] will take place in the Australian state of [[New South Wales]].
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* [[March 4]] - [[Estonian parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] take place in [[Estonia]] and in [[Abkhazian parliamentary election, 2007|Abkhazia]].
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* [[March 31]]-[[April 2]] - The [[2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament]]'s Final Four will playoff at the [[Georgia Dome]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]].
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* [[March 5]] - [[March 15]] - The [[2007 National People's Congress]] is held in [[Beijing]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]. The [[Property Law of the People's Republic of China]] is officially adopted.
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* [[March 6]] - ''[[Mega Millions]]'' sets a new world record for the [[Lottery jackpot records|highest lottery jackpot]] of US $370 million.
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* [[March 7]] - [[Garuda Indonesia Flight 200]], a [[Boeing 737-400]], crashes at [[Yogyakarta]] on the [[Indonesia]]n island of [[Java]], killing many on board.
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* [[March 7]] - [[Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007]] is held.
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* [[March 8]] - [[Israel]]i Prime Minister [[Ehud Olmert]] admits that Israel had planned an attack on [[Lebanon]] in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before [[Hezbollah]] carried out its kidnapping.
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* [[March 12]] - [[Alan Johnston]], a BBC journalist [[Kidnapping of Alan Johnston|disappears]] in [[Gaza City]], [[Palestine]].  
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* [[March 13]] - [[Stardust Resort & Casino]] is demolished.
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* [[March 17]] - [[Chlorine]] bombs injure hundreds in [[Baghdad, Iraq]].
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* [[March 18]] - The [[2007 Formula One Season|2007 Formula 1 World Championship]] Begins with the [[2007 Australian Grand Prix|Australian Grand Prix]] in [[Melbourne]]
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* [[March 22]] - [[NATO]] troops launch two assaults in [[Helmand Province]], [[Afghanistan]], killing 38 [[Taliban]] terrorists. NATO suffers no casualties.
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* [[March 23]] - Naval forces of [[Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps|Iran's Revolutionary Guard]] [[2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel|seize Royal Navy personnel]] in disputed Iran-Iraq waters.
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* [[March 23]] - Eight human skeletons are discovered in [[Fort Myers, Florida]], later linked to suspected serial killer [[Daniel Conahan]].
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* [[March 25]] - In [[Berlin]] 27 European ministers celebrate the 50-year [[Treaty of Rome]].
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* [[March 25]] - [[Ozeki]] [[Hakuho]] clinches the [[Emperor's Cup]] at the Spring Grand [[Sumo]] Tournament (Haru Basho) in [[Osaka]], Japan.
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* [[March 26]] - In the [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Québec]], the [[Quebec Liberal Party|Liberal Party]] wins a [[Quebec National Assembly election, 2007|National Assembly election]] with 48 seats out of 125 and forms a minority government.
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* [[March 27]] - [[Prime Minister of Latvia]] [[Aigars Kalvitis]] and [[Prime minister of Russia]] [[Mikhail Fradkov]] finally sign a border treaty between [[Latvia]] and [[Russia]].
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* [[March 28]] - Former [[MLB]] pitcher [[Ugueth Urbina]] is sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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* [[March 31]] - [[Sydney, Australia]], turns off its lights for 1 hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a [[political statement]] for [[Global Climate Change]].
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* [[March 31]] - World DJ [[Tiesto]] starts his world tour 'Elements of Life' commencing at the [[King's Hall, Belfast]] to a packed audience of 8,000 hosted by Planetlove Promotions
  
 
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* [[April 22]] - The first round of the [[French presidential election, 2007|French presidential election of 2007]] will take place.
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* [[April 2]] - Smoke ban in enclosed places in [[Wales]]
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* [[April 2]] - The [[Solomon Islands]] is shaken by a magnitude 8.1 [[earthquake]], and hit by a subsequent [[tsunami]].
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* [[April 3]] - [[President of Ukraine|Ukrainian President]] [[Viktor Yushchenko]] dissolves the [[Parliament of Ukraine|Ukrainian Parliament]] following defections that increased the majority of his opponents. It has been nicknamed the "Second [[Orange Revolution]]".
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* [[April 4]] - [[NATO]] and [[Afganistan|Afghan]] forces retake a key town from the [[Taliban]] in [[Sangin]] in southern [[Helmand Province]].
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* [[April 4]] - [[Iran]] announced it will release the [[2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel|British sailors and marines]] that they captured on [[March 23]]. The captives arrive back in the UK the next day.
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* [[April 5]] - The Greek cruise ship [[M/S Sea Diamond|M/S ''Sea Diamond'']] strikes a reef off the harbor of [[Santorini]]; the ship sinks the next day.
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* [[April 6]] - Severe clashes between two rival factions erupted in [[Parachinar]], a tribal area of [[Pakistan]] bordering the famous [[Tora Bora]] Heights.
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* [[April 8]] - [[Zach Johnson]] wins the [[2007 Masters Tournament]].
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* [[April 11]] - [[Al Qaeda]] claims responsibility for [[11 April 2007 Algiers bombings|two bomb blasts]] in the Algerian capital of [[Algiers]]. At least 33 people have been killed and 222 others injured.
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*[[April 12]] - [[Don Imus]] is fired by [[CBS]] for making controversial comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
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* [[April 14]] - Retired chess champion [[Garry Kasparov]] is detained in Moscow for participating in a banned march.
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[[Image:2007 Virginia Tech Massacre Bush handshake.jpg|right|thumb|[[United States]] [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] with [[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University|Virginia Tech]] Student Government Association President James Tyger after his speech at the school's convocation.]]
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* [[April 16]] - 32 people are killed in the [[Virginia Tech massacre]] on the premises of [[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]] in [[Blacksburg, Virginia]].
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* [[April 17]] - The [[Pound Sterling]] hits a 15-year high against the US dollar, breaking through the US$2 level for the first time since 1992.
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* [[April 17]] – The [[2014 Asian Games]] is awarded to be held in [[Incheon]], [[South Korea]], winning over [[India]]'s [[New Delhi]].
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* [[April 18]] - 32 [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] [[steel]] workers are burnt to death in the [[Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster]].
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* [[April 19]] - US and allied air forces conduct massive exercises over [[South Korea]] with over 500 planes.<ref>http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm</ref>
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* [[April 21]] - Presidential elections are held in [[Nigeria]].
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* [[April 22]] - The first round of the [[French presidential election, 2007|French presidential election of 2007]] takes place.
 
* [[April 23]] - [[Bogotá]], Colombia, begins its term as [[World Book Capital]].
 
* [[April 23]] - [[Bogotá]], Colombia, begins its term as [[World Book Capital]].
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* [[April 26]] - [[Jamestown 2007]], the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the first settlement of the modern-day United States at [[Jamestown, Virginia]] will be celebrated.
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* [[April 24]] - [[Abortion]] is legalized in [[Mexico City]].
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* [[April 24]] - [[Gliese 581 c]], a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered in the [[constellation]] [[Libra (constellation)|Libra]].
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* [[April 25]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] gains 135.95 points to close at 13089.89; its first close above 13000 in its history.
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* [[April 25]] - The [[Burj Dubai]] reaches the height of the [[Sears Tower]] on its way to becoming the tallest building in the world.
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* [[April 25]] - Representative [[Dennis Kucinich]] (D-Ohio), introduces articles to [[impeach]] [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Dick Cheney]].<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/25/politics/main2726626.shtml</ref>
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* [[April 26]] - Russians riot in [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]], about moving the [[Bronze Soldier of Tallinn|Bronze Soldier]]. Two nights of rioting leave one dead.
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* [[April 27]] - [[Turkish presidential election, 2007|Turkish Presidential Election]] first round, which was later declared invalid by a Turkish court.
  
 
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* [[May 3]] - There will be a [[Scottish parliamentary election, 2007|parliamentary election in Scotland]] and an [[Welsh Assembly Election 2007|assembly election in Wales.]]
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* [[May 6]] - The second round (also called runoff) of the [[French presidential election, 2007|presidential election in France]] will be held.
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* [[May 3]] - [[Madeleine McCann]] is abducted, the story receives extensive media coverage.
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* [[May 12]] - The final of the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2007|52nd Eurovision Song Contest]] will take place in [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]].
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* [[May 3]] - [[Scottish Parliament election, 2007]]: The [[Scottish National Party]] became the largest party in [[Scotland]] for the first time in their history.
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* [[May 16]]-[[May 20]] - The [[European Festival of Youth Choirs]] will be held in [[Basel]], [[Switzerland]].
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* [[May 3]] - [[United Kingdom local elections, 2007|Local government elections]] in [[Scotland]] and most of [[England]].
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* [[May 19]] - The 23rd annual United States National [[Science Olympiad]] tournament will be held in [[Wichita State University]] in [[Wichita, Kansas]].
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* [[May 3]] - [[National Assembly for Wales election, 2007|National Assembly for Wales]] elections 2007.
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* [[May 23]] - The [[UEFA Champions League 2006-07]] season final will be held in the [[Olympic Stadium (Athens)|Olympic Stadium]] in [[Athens]], [[Greece]].
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* [[May 4]] - [[May 2007 Tornado Outbreak|Tornado]] strikes [[Greensburg, Kansas]], killing at least 12 and destroying about 90% of the town.
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*[[May 28]]-[[June 2]] - The Urdd National [[Eisteddfod]] will be held in [[Carmarthenshire]], [[South Wales]]
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* [[May 4]] - [[Executive Directive 51]], which specifies the procedures for continuity of the federal government of the United States in the event of a "catastrophic emergency" signed by President [[George W. Bush]]
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* [[May 5]] - [[Kenya Airways]] [[Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507|Flight KQ 507]] crashes in [[Cameroon]].
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[[Image:Lula-Sarkozy-cropped.jpg|120px|thumbnail|right|[[Nicolas Sarkozy]]]]
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* [[May 6]] - [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] is elected [[President of the French Republic]], defeating [[Ségolène Royal]] with 53% of the vote in the [[French presidential election, 2007|French Presidential Election]].
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* [[May 6]] - [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] wins the [[England|English]] [[Premier League]].
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* [[May 6]] - [[Panathinaikos BC]] wins basketball's [[Euroleague]] after beating [[CSKA Moscow]] 93-91 in Athens Olympic stadium.
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* [[May 6]] - [[Atlético Clube Paranavaí|A.C. Paranavaí]] wins its first ever Paraná State Championship.
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* [[May 7]] - [[2007 Chinese slave scandal|Chinese slave scandal]].
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* [[May 8]] - [[Northern Ireland Assembly|Devolved government]] is restored to [[Northern Ireland]], with [[Ian Paisley]] as First Minister and [[Martin McGuinness]] as Deputy First Minister.
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* [[May 9]] - [[Subtropical Storm Andrea]] forms off the coast of [[Florida]], the earliest subtropical storm since [[Subtropical Storm Ana]] in [[2003]].
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* [[May 10]] - [[Tony Blair]] announces he will resign as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] on [[27 June]] triggering a [[Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2007|Labour Party leadership election]].
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* [[May 12]] - The final of the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2007]] is held in Helsinki, resulting in [[Serbia]]'s first victory.
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*[[May 14]] - Senatorial Elections in the [[Philippines]] was held.
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* [[May 14]] - Famed singer [[Bobby Darin]] receives a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
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* [[May 15]] - Coalition government of [[Fatah]] and [[Hamas]] in [[Palestinian National Authority]] appeared to break down, as massive fighting breaks out in [[Gaza Strip]].
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* [[May 16]] - The [[General Assembly]] of the [[United Nations]], recognizing that genuine [[multilingualism]] promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, proclaimed [[2008]] the [[International Year of Languages]] [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/ga10592.doc.htm].
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* [[May 16]] - [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] officially became [[President of the French Republic]] after taking over from [[Jacques Chirac]].
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* [[May 17]] - [[Alex Salmond]] officially became [[First Minister of Scotland]] after taking over from [[Jack McConnell]].
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* [[May 17]] - The [[Russian Orthodox Church Abroad]] and the [[Moscow Patriarchate]] re-united after eighty years of schism.
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* [[May 17]] - [[Hong Kong]] media regulator receives more than thousand complaints about the [[Bible]] being too sexual.
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* [[May 19]] - The 126th [[FA Cup]] Final is held, the first at the new [[Wembley Stadium]]. [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] defeat [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] 1-0.
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* [[May 20]] - The ruler of [[Dubai]], Sheikh [[Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum]] makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East.
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* [[May 20]] - Clashes in [[Tripoli, Lebanon]], spark the [[2007 Lebanon conflict]].
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* [[May 21]] - The [[19th century]] ship the ''[[Cutty Sark]]'' is badly damaged by fire in [[London]], UK.
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* [[May 23]] - [[A.C. Milan]] beat [[Liverpool F.C.]] 2-1 in the [[UEFA Champions League 2006-07]] final at the [[Olympic Stadium (Athens)|Olympic Stadium]] in [[Athens]], [[Greece]].
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* [[May 24]] - [[Irish general election, 2007|General election]] in the [[Republic of Ireland]]. [[Taoiseach]] [[Bertie Ahern]] and his [[Fianna Fáil]] party win a majority of seats for the third election in a row.
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* [[May 25]] - The 30th anniversary of [[Star Wars]] is celebrated.
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* [[May 25]] - [[Ozeki]] [[Hakuho]] clinches the [[Emperor's Cup]] at the Summer Grand [[Sumo]] Tournament (Natsu Basho) in [[Tokyo]], Japan.
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* [[May 25]] - [[Denmark|Danish]] former professional bicyclist [[Bjarne Riis]] admitted to having used [[Doping (sport)|doping]] when winning the [[1996 Tour de France]].
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* [[May 26]] - [[Russia]] is once again recognized as a full-fledged [[superpower]] by the [[United States]]. <ref>http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=768929</ref>
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* [[May 27]] - [[RCTV|Radio Caracas Televisión]] (RCTV) is taken off the air after the government of [[Venezuela]] refused to renew its license. This action results in [[May 2007 RCTV protests|protests]]. On [[July 16]], 2007, RCTV resumed broadcasting via cable and satellite.
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* [[May 27]] - [[Dario Franchitti]] wins the [[2007 Indianapolis 500]].
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* [[May 28]] - [[Riyo Mori]] was crowned the new [[Miss Universe 2007]] in [[Mexico City]].
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* [[May 29]] - Inauguration of newly elected [[President of Nigeria|President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria]] at the Abuja Eagle Square and first civilian to civilian transfer of power in [[Nigeria]].
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* [[May 31]] - [[Valdis Zatlers]] is elected [[List of Presidents of Latvia|President of Latvia]], defeating [[Aivars Endziņš]] in the [[Latvian presidential election, 2007|Latvian presidential election]].
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* [[May 31]] - A calendar [[blue moon]] occurred in the [[Western Hemisphere]] and parts of the [[Eastern Hemisphere]].
  
 
===June===
 
===June===
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* [[June 5]] - [[NASA]]'s [[MESSENGER]] spacecraft will make its second flyby of [[Venus (planet)|Venus]] en route to [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]].
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* [[June 6]]-[[June 8]] - The [[33rd G8 summit]] will take place in [[Heiligendamm]], [[Germany]].
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* [[June 1]] - A 2100 year old melon is discovered by archaeologists in western Japan<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_fe_st/japan_oldest_melon;_ylt=ApRgC.q7xY7jDAOUFbldew0PLBIF|title=Researchers Find 2,100 Year Old Melon|publisher=Yahoo News |accessdate=2007-06-01}}</ref>
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* [[June 10]] - The first round of the [[French legislative election, 2007|legislative election in France]] will be held.
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* [[June 1]] - U.S. warships bombard a Somali village where Islamic militants had set up a base<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070602/ap_on_re_af/somalia_us|title=Report: U.S. hits militants' Somali base |publisher=Yahoo News |accessdate=2007-06-02}}</ref>
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* [[June 17]] - The second round of the [[French legislative election, 2007|legislative election in France]] will take place.
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* [[June 2]] - Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up [[JFK International Airport]] in [[New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/02/jfk.terror.plot/index.html|title=4 charged with terror plot at JFK airport, official says |publisher=CNN News |accessdate=2007-06-02}}</ref>
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* [[June 20]] - [[NASA]]'s [[Dawn Mission|Dawn]] spacecraft is scheduled to be launched.
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* [[June 3]] - The [[Valley of Geysers]] in [[Russia]] was destroyed by a mudflow.<ref>Russian ''[[GEO (magazine)|GEO]]'', N10, 2007, p. 167</ref>
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* [[June 26]]-[[July 15]] - The [[Copa América 2007]] association football tournament will take place in [[Venezuela]].
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* [[June 4]] - Ten people, including a Californian National Guard officer and former Hmong general, are charged over plans to overthrow the Laotian Government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_re_us/laos_plot;_ylt=AvJrpI4uHaIielJzG9NGY_PMWM0F|title=2 charged in Laotian overthrow plot |Author: Don Thompson |publisher=Yahoo News |accessdate=2007-06-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/04/laos.arrests/index.html|title=10 charged with alleged Laos plot|publisher=CNN |accessdate=2007-06-04}}</ref>
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* [[June 28]] - Start of the [[Manchester International Festival]]
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* [[June 5]] - [[NASA]]'s [[MESSENGER]] spacecraft made its second fly-by of [[Venus (planet)|Venus]] en route to [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]].
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* [[June 5]] - A mass grave in southern Ukraine, found accidentally by workers in May, has been confirmed to be filled with thousands of victims of [[The Holocaust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070605/ap_on_re_eu/ukraine_holocaust|title=Mass Holocaust grave found in Ukraine |publisher=Yahoo News |accessdate=2007-06-05}}</ref>
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* [[June 5]] - 11 people are killed and 23 others injured in a [[2007 Kerang train crash|train crash]] near Kerang in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]].
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* [[June 6]] - Twelve people are killed by cyclone [[Gonu]] in [[Oman]].
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* [[June 6]] - The [[Anaheim Ducks]] defeat the [[Ottawa Senators]] 4 games to 1 to win the [[National Hockey League|NHL]]'s [[Stanley Cup]].
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* [[June 6]]-[[June 8]] - The [[33rd G8 summit]] took place amid strong protests in [[Heiligendamm]], [[Germany]].
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[[Image:STS-117launch6.jpg|thumbnail|right|Launch of the [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']]]]
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* [[June 8]] - The [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] successfully launched on mission [[STS-117]].
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* [[June 8]] - The coastal city of [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]] was rocked by heavy storms which claimed nine lives<ref>{{cite web
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* [[June 10]] - The first round of a [[French legislative election, 2007|legislative election]] was held in [[France]], and a [[Belgian general election, 2007|general election]] was held in [[Belgium]].
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* [[June 10]] - The [[61st Tony Awards]], honoring [[Broadway theatres]]' best shows, took place at [[Radio City Music Hall]].
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* [[June 10]] - [[Lewis Hamilton]] wins the [[2007 Canadian Grand Prix|Canadian Grand Prix]] becoming the first driver of mixed racial origin to win a [[Formula One]] race.
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* [[June 11]] - US Senator [[Larry Craig]], a long-time opponent of gay rights, was arrested for lewd conduct in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct on August 8.
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* [[June 14]] - The [[Green Party of Ireland|Green Party]] enters government for the first time in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], with [[Fianna Fáil]] and the [[Progressive Democrats]].
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* [[June 14]] - The [[San Antonio Spurs]] sweep the [[Cleveland Cavaliers]] to win the [[2007 NBA Finals]].
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* [[June 15]] - [[Bob Barker]] airs his last episode of ''[[The Price is Right]]'', actual taping taking place on June 6.
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* [[June 18]] - Three people are injured and one dead in a shooting near [[Flinders St]] in [[Melbourne]].
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* [[June 18]] - Nine [[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]] firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire.
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* [[June 20]] - The Argentinian team [[Boca Juniors]] beat the Brazilian team [[Grêmio]] to win the [[Copa Libertadores 2007]].
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* [[June 22]] - An [[Fujita scale|F5]] [[tornado]] tears through [[Elie, Manitoba]], no injuries are reported.
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* [[June 24]] - The refurbished [[Millennium Dome]], now called The O<sub>2</sub>, reopens in [[London]].
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* [[June 24]] - South Lake Tahoe - A wildfire starts eventually destroying 254 homes in the area.
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* [[June 25]] - WWE wrestler [[Chris Benoit]], his wife [[Nancy Benoit]], and son Daniel, are found dead as the result of a murder-suicide that took place over the previous weekend.
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* [[June 25]] - Groundbreaking of the [[Chicago Spire]].
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* [[June 25]] - Intense heatwaves begin to hit Southeast Europe as temperatures reach 46c in Bulgaria and Greece.
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* [[June 25]] - Following the wettest June on record, Sheffield and South Yorkshire are affected by flooding. Much of Sheffield, Doncaster and Rotherham is flooded when the River Don breaches its banks.                                                  
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* [[June 26]]-[[July 15]] - The [[Copa América 2007]] [[Football (soccer)|soccer]] tournament takes place in [[Venezuela]].
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[[Image:Gordon Brown 2005 IMF close.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Gordon Brown]]]]
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* [[June 27]] - [[Tony Blair]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]; New [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] leader [[Gordon Brown]] is [[kiss hands|appointed]] Prime Minister by [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]].
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* [[June 27]] - The [[Brazilian Military Police|military police]] of [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|the state of Rio de Janeiro]] invades the ''[[favela]]'' of [[Complexo do Alemão]] ending in a [[Complexo do Alemão massacre|massacre]].
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* [[June 28]] - In the aftermath of [[Greece]]'s worst [[heatwave]] in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from [[heatstroke]], approximately 200 [[wildfire]]s break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
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* [[June 29]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] police [[2007 Haymarket bomb plot|defuse a bomb]] in [[Haymarket (London)|Haymarket]], [[Central London]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6252276.stm | title=London 'bomb' made safe by police |date=[[2007-06-29]]| work =[[BBC News Online]]}}</ref>
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* [[June 29]] - Apple's new [[iPhone]] is released in the US
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* [[June 30]] - A [[Jeep Cherokee (XJ)|Jeep Cherokee]] drove into the entrance of the main terminal of [[Glasgow International Airport]] in an [[2007 Glasgow International Airport attack|apparent terrorist incident]], resulting in a petrol-driven fire.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.itv.com/news/index_6a0d944f9aa1ca2c956854eff9c13a76.html | title=Car smashed into Glasgow Airport |date=[[2007-06-30]]| work =[[ITV News]]}}</ref>
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* [[June 30]] - A calendar [[blue moon]] occurred in most of the [[Eastern Hemisphere]].
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* [[June 30]] - The [[FIFA U-20 World Cup|FIFA U-20 World Cup 2007]] [[Football (soccer)|soccer]] tournament takes place in [[Canada]].
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* [[June 30]] - A [[Papua New Guinean parliamentary election, 2007|parliamentary election]] was held in [[Papua New Guinea]].
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* [[June 30]] - The [[Hawaii Superferry]] arrives in Honolulu after a 7,600 mile journey from [[Mobile, Alabama]]
  
 
===July===
 
===July===
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* [[July 1]] - [[Russia]] will be composed of 85 federal subjects instead of 86 as [[Koryakia]] will be merged into [[Kamchatka]] per a [[2005]] referendum.
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* [[July 7]] - The host city of the [[2014 Winter Olympics]] will be announced at the General Meeting of the [[International Olympic Committee]] in [[Guatemala City, Guatemala]]. The three candidates cities are [[Sochi]], [[Salzburg]] and [[Pyeongchang County|Pyeongchang]].
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* [[July 1]] - [[Hong Kong]] celebrates 10 years of Chinese rule.
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* [[July 7]]-[[July 29]] - The [[Asian Cup 2007]] association football tournament will take place in [[Indonesia]], [[Malaysia]], [[Thailand]], and [[Vietnam]].
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* [[July 1]] - [[Portugal]] takes over the [[Presidency of the Council of the European Union]] from [[Germany]].
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* [[July 7]]-[[July 29]] - The [[2007 Tour de France]] will take place; the ''grand départ'' will be from [[London]].
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* [[July 1]] - Smoking in public and work places is banned in [[England]].
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* [[July 13]]-[[July 29]] - The [[2007 Pan American Games]] will be held in [[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]].  
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* [[July 1]] - Smoking is banned in pubs and clubs in [[New South Wales]] and [[Victoria, Australia]].
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* [[July 19]]-[[July 22]] - The 2007 [[Eastern European Vintage Bike Rally]] will be held in [[Transylvania]], [[Romania]].
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* [[July 1]] - A law goes into effect lowering the [[voting age]] in [[Austria]] from 18 to 16 in federal elections.
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* [[July 27]]- [[Tony Blair]], [[Prime Minister]] of the [[United Kingdom]] expected to resign in favour of [[Gordon Brown]]
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* [[July 1]] - [[Russia]] is composed of 85 federal subjects instead of 86 as [[Koryak Autonomous Okrug]] and [[Kamchatka Oblast]] were merged into the [[Kamchatka Krai]] following a 2005 referendum.
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* [[July 27]] to [[August 8]] - The [[21st World Scout Jamboree]] will take place in [[Chelmsford]], [[Essex]], [[England]].
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* [[July 1]] - The [[Concert For Diana]] is held at Wembley Stadium to commemorate [[Diana, Princess of Wales]].
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* Unknown date - An election will determine 121 of the 242 seats in the [[House of Councillors|Japanese House of Councillors]].
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* [[July 2]] - 10th anniversary of the collapse of the Thai [[baht]], which triggered the [[Asian Financial Crisis]].
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* [[July 2]] - [[Venus]] and [[Saturn]] are in [[conjunction (astronomy)|conjunction]], separation 46 arcsecs.
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* [[July 3]] - Torrential rains cause the onset of the [[2007 Sudan floods]], the worst in the [[Sudan]]'s history.
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* [[July 4]] - The [[flag of the United States|50-star U.S. flag]] becomes the longest-flying American flag, replacing the [[flag of the United States|48-star flag]] that flew from [[1912]] to [[1959]].
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* [[July 4]] - [[Sochi]] is elected as the host city of the [[2014 Winter Olympics]], during the 119th [[International Olympic Committee]] Session in [[Guatemala City]].
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* [[July 4]] - After being held for 114 days, [[Alan Johnston]] was finally freed.
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* [[July 7]] - [[Venus Williams]] wins the Women's Singles, at [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] for a fourth time.
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* [[July 7]] - [[Live Earth]] Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world.
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* [[July 7]]-[[July 29]] - The [[2007 Tour de France]] begins, with the ''grand départ'' being from [[London]].
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* [[July 7]]-[[July 29]] - The [[2007 AFC Asian Cup|Asian Cup 2007]] [[Football (soccer)|Football (Soccer)]] tournament begins, taking place in [[Indonesia]], [[Thailand]], [[Malaysia]], and [[Vietnam]].
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* [[July 8]] - Boeing launches the new [[Boeing 787]].
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* [[July 8]] - [[Roger Federer]] wins the Men's Singles, at [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] for a fifth time in a row.
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* [[July 9]] - While celebrating Argentinean Independence Day, snow falls in [[Buenos Aires]] for the first time in almost 100 years.
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* [[July 10]] - [[2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game]] in [[San Francisco]] (AL 5, NL 4)
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* [[July 10]] - A [[Cessna 310]]R twin-engine airplane crashes into two homes in [[Sanford, Florida]], killing three adults and two children.
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* [[July 10]] - [[Zheng Xiaoyu]], head of [[State Food and Drug Administration]] of the [[People's Republic of China]] executed.
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* [[July 11]] - The ninth [[All Africa Games]] kick off in [[Algiers]], [[Algeria]]
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* [[July 12]] - [[Queen Elizabeth II]] visits the world's largest Commonwealth war grave in [[Ypres]], [[Belgium]] to pay respects to fallen soldiers of the [[Battle of Passchendaele]].
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* [[July 13]] - The [[2007 Pan American Games|15th Pan Am Games]] opens in [[Rio de Janeiro]].
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* [[July 14]] - Following a presidential decree, [[Russia]] withdraws from the [[Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe]].
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* [[July 15]] - [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] defeats [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] 3-0 in the [[Copa América 2007]] Final.
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[[Image:TopViewNarrows.jpg|thumb|right|Opening ceremony of the second [[Tacoma Narrows Bridge]]]]
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* [[July 15]] - In [[Tacoma, Washington]], the second span of the [[Tacoma Narrows Bridge]] opens to traffic, making it the longest twin suspension bridge in the world.
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* [[July 16]] - Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and release about 300 gallons of radioactive water.
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* [[July 16]] - Britain expels four Russian diplomats in response to a refusal by the Russians to extradite [[Andrei Lugovoi]], suspected to be behind the murder of former KGB spy [[Alexander Litvinenko]] in London.
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* [[July 17]] - [[TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054]] overruns the runway of [[Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport]] and crashes, killing all 186 and others on the ground.
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* [[July 17]] - [[Atlanta Falcons]] quarterback [[Michael Vick]] and three other men on charges related to their alleged operation of a [[dogfighting]] ring based at one of Vick's properties in southeastern [[Virginia]]. Vick was later suspended indefinitely in [[August]] by NFL Commissioner [[Roger Goodell]] and is now serving his sentence of 23 months in federal prison.
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* [[July 18]] - [[Nelson Mandela]] convenes a group of world leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems as he turns 89.
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* [[July 18]] - At the height of rush hour in New York City [[2007 New York City steam explosion|a major steam pipe bursts]], releasing millions of gallons of boiling water and super heated steam. Only one fatality occurred; a pedestrian who went into cardiac arrest.
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* [[July 19]] - [[Ol Doinyo Lengai]] mountain erupts, bringing a stop to the daily week long tremors experienced in [[Nairobi]] and Northern [[Tanzania]].
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* [[July 19]] - Russia expels four British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of four of Russia's diplomats. Russia also refuses to cooperate with Britain over the war on terror.
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[[Image:Pratibha Patil 2.jpg|thumb|right|120px|[[Pratibha Patil]]]]
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* [[July 19]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] closes above 14,000 for the first time in history. 
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* [[July 19]] - [[Prathiba Patil]] is elected as the first female [[President of India]].
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* [[July 21]] - U.S. Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] serves as [[Acting President of the United States|Acting President]] for two and a half hours, while President [[George W. Bush]] undergoes a [[colonoscopy]] procedure.
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* [[July 21]] - The final epic novel in [[J.K. Rowling]]'s bestselling series [[Harry Potter]], [[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]], was released selling over 8 million copies in the first 24 hours.
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* [[July 22]] - [[Summer 2007 United Kingdom floods|Floods cause chaos]] through wide areas of [[Great Britain|Britain]], especially the counties of [[Gloucestershire]], [[Warwickshire]], [[Worcestershire]] and [[Oxfordshire]], leaving hundreds homeless and thousands of vehicles stranded on major roads.
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* [[July 22]] - [[Turkish general election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] took place in [[Turkey]].
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* [[July 22]] - [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] [[Asashoryu]] conquers the [[Emperor's Cup]] at the Nagoya Grand [[Sumo]] Tournament (Nagoya Basho) in [[Nagoya]], Japan.
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* [[July 27]] - Two television news [[helicopter]]s [[2007 Phoenix news helicopter collision|collide in midair]] while covering a police chase in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], killing both pilots and two [[photojournalist]]s.
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* [[July 27]] - [[Nikola Radosavljevic]] shot dead nine people in village [[Jabukovac]] in eastern [[Serbia]] and wounded two.
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* [[July 29]] - The ruling coalition of [[Japan]] lost its majority in the upper house after the [[Japanese House of Councillors election, 2007|election]].
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* [[July 29]] - [[Iraq national football team|Iraq]] wins its first [[2007 AFC Asian Cup|Asian Cup]] football championship, beating [[Saudi Arabia national football team|Saudi Arabia]] 1-0.
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* [[July 30]] - New British Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] visits U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] for the first time as Prime Minister.
  
 
===August===
 
===August===
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* [[August 4]]-[[August 11]] - The [[National Eisteddfod of Wales]] will be held at [[Mold]], [[Flintshire]], [[Wales]].
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* [[August 24]]-[[September 2]] - The [[2007 World Championships in Athletics]] will be held at [[Nagai Stadium]] in [[Osaka, Osaka|Osaka]], [[Japan]].
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* [[August 1]] - The [[I-35W Mississippi River Bridge]] on [[Interstate 35W (Minnesota)|I-35W]] over the [[Mississippi River]] in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] between University Avenue and Washington Avenue collapses at 6:05 pm CST during the later part of [[rush hour]], killing 13 people.
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* [[August 28]] - Total [[lunar eclipse]]
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* [[August 1]] - [[Scouting]] celebrates its [[Scouting 2007 Centenary|100th birthday]] with worldwide celebrations.
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* [[August 30]]-[[September 3]] - The [[65th World Science Fiction Convention]] will take place in [[Yokohama]], [[Japan]].
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* [[August 3]] - A strain of [[foot and mouth disease]] is found on a farm at [[Wanborough, Surrey| Wanborough]], near to [[Guildford]], [[Surrey]]. Gordon Brown holds a [[Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms| COBRA]] meeting by phone on the outbreak. For more information see [[2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak]].
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* [[August 4]] - A [[United Kingdom|UK]]-wide ban on movement of all livestock is in place after foot and mouth disease is found on the Surrey farm.
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* [[August 4]] - Smoking in public places is banned in [[Slovenia]].
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[[Image:I-35W bridge collapse TLR1.jpg|thumb|right|[[I-35W Mississippi River Bridge]] collapse.]]
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* [[August 4]] - The [[Phoenix spacecraft]] launches toward the Martian north pole.
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* [[August 6]] - [[Israel]]i Prime Minister [[Ehud Olmert]] arrives in historic Palestianian town of [[Jericho]], becoming the first Prime Minister of Israel to visit the [[West Bank]] or [[Gaza Strip]] in over seven years. Olmert met with Palestinian Authority President [[Mahmoud Abbas]].
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* [[August 6]] - The [[Crandall Canyon Mine]] in [[Emery County]], [[Utah]] collapses, trapping six miners.
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* [[August 7]] - [[Barry Bonds]] breaks Hank Aaron's home run record by hitting his 756th home run.
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* [[August 8]] - The [[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'']] is successfully launched on mission [[STS-118]].
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* [[August 8]] - The 21st [[World Scout Jamboree]] at Hylands Park, Essex closes.
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* [[August 9]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] loses 387.18 points, its largest single-day drop since [[February 27]].
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* [[August 4]]-[[August 11]] - The [[National Eisteddfod of Wales]] is held at [[Mold, Flintshire|Mold]], [[Flintshire]], [[Wales]].
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* [[August 4]]-[[August 11]] - The 92nd [[World Congress of Esperanto]] is held in [[Yokohama]], [[Japan]].
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* [[August 11]] - [[Sierra Leonean general election, 2007|Presidential and parliamentary elections]] were held in [[Sierra Leone]].
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* [[August 12]] - [[Tiger Woods]] wins [[PGA Championship]], his 13th career major.
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* [[August 14]] - [[Pakistan]] marks the 60th anniversary of their independence from the [[British Empire]].
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* [[August 14]] - Multiple suicide bombings [[2007 Qahtaniya bombings|kill 572 people]] in [[Kahtaniya|Qahtaniya]], northern [[Iraq]].
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* [[August 14]] - At least 22 people are killed, and at least 39 missing, as a bridge collapses in the southeastern province of [[Hunan]], [[People's Republic of China|China]].
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* [[August 15]] - [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] referee [[Tim Donaghy]] surrenders to police and pleads guilty to charges brought up by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] investigation that he placed bets on games that he refereed.
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* [[August 15]] - [[India]] marks the 60th anniversary of their independence from the [[British Empire]].
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* [[August 15]] - An [[2007 Peru earthquake|8.0 earthquake]] strikes [[Peru]], killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing [[tsunami]] warnings in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
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* [[August 16]] - The [[Crandall Canyon Mine]] in [[Emery County]], [[Utah]], collapses a second time, killing three rescue workers and injuring six more.
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* [[August 17]] [[Vladimir Putin]] issues a statement, revealing that [[Russia]] is to resume the flight exercises of its [[Strategic bombers]] in remote areas. The flights were suspended in [[1991]] after the [[Collapse of the Soviet Union]].
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* [[August 18]] - [[Typhoon Sepat (2007)|Typhoon Sepat]] makes landfall in eastern [[Taiwan]].
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* [[August 21]] - [[Hurricane Dean (2007)|Hurricane Dean]], a powerful [[Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale|Category 5]] storm, slams into a largely evacuated [[Yucatán Peninsula]] of [[Mexico]].
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* [[August 21]] - [[STS-118]] lands at the [[Kennedy Space Center]], completing [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]]'s 19th flight.
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* [[August 22]] - The [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] score thirty [[Run (baseball)|runs]] in one game, setting the modern (post-[[1900]]) [[Major League Baseball|MLB]] record for most runs by one team in a single game, in a 30-3 victory over the [[Baltimore Orioles]].
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[[Image:25August 2007 Greek fires.jpg|thumb|160px|Rapidfire – NASA image of the [[2007 Greek Forest Fires|Greek wildfires]], taken on 25 August.]]
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* [[August 25]] - [[Greece|Greek]] Prime Minister [[Kostas Karamanlis]] declares a national [[state of emergency]] after a series of [[2007 Greek forest fires|devastating wildfires]] ravage western [[Peloponese]] and southern [[Euboea]], killing 68 people.
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* [[August 25]] - [[25 August 2007 Hyderabad bombings|Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode]] in [[Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh|Hyderabad]], [[India]].
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* [[August 27]] - [[United States Attorney General]] [[Alberto Gonzales]] announced his resignation, to be effective [[September 17]].
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* [[August 24]]-[[September 2]] - The [[2007 World Championships in Athletics]] was held at [[Nagai Stadium]] in [[Osaka, Osaka|Osaka]], [[Japan]].
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* [[August 28]] - [[Abdullah Gül]] is [[Turkish presidential election, 2007|elected]] as the [[List of Presidents of Turkey|eleventh]] [[President of Turkey]] by the [[Grand National Assembly of Turkey|Turkish Parliament]], after secularist concerns delayed his initial candidacy.
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* [[August 30]] - [[2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident]] in which a [[B-52]] flew from [[Minot AFB]], ND to [[Barksdale AFB]], LA carrying 6 nuclear warheads.
  
 
===September===
 
===September===
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* [[September 2]] - A [[Guatemalan election, 2007|general election in Guatemala]] will elect the [[President of Guatemala|president]], vice-president, [[Congress of Guatemala|congressmen]], municipal mayors and representatives to [[Parlacen]].
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* [[September 7]]-[[October 20]] - The [[2007 Rugby World Cup]] will be held, primarily in [[France]] but with three matches in [[Cardiff]], [[Wales]] and two in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]].
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* [[September 1]] - [[Finland]] switches off all of its [[analogue television|analogue]] [[terrestrial television]] signals as part of the [[digital switchover]].
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* [[September 8]]-[[September 9]] - The [[Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation]] will host its annual meeting in [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]].
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* [[September 2]]-[[September 9]] - The [[Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation]] hosts its [[APEC Australia 2007|19th annual city meeting]] in [[Sydney]].
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* [[September 10]]-[[September 30]] - The [[2007 FIFA Women's World Cup]] association football tournament will take place in the [[People's Republic of China]].
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* [[September 3]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] troops withdraw from the [[Basra]] region of [[Iraq]].
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* [[September 11]] - Partial [[solar eclipse]].
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* [[September 4]] - Northeast [[Nicaragua]] takes a direct hit from [[Hurricane Felix (2007)|Hurricane Felix]]. The hurricane was a strong [[Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale|Category 5]] storm when it reached the coast.
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* [[September 6]] - A bomb explodes in [[Batna, Algeria]] as a crowd gathered to see Algerian President [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]]. Nineteen people died, while 107 were wounded by the attack.
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* [[September 7]] - The [[Rugby World Cup 2007]] starts in [[France]].
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* [[September 8]] - Over 50 people die when car bomb explodes in the [[Algeria]]n port city of [[Dellys]].
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* [[September 9]] - The [[Guatemalan general election, 2007|general election in Guatemala]] elects the [[President of Guatemala|president]], vice president, [[Congress of Guatemala|congressmen]], municipal mayors, and representatives to [[Parlacen]].
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* [[September 10]]-[[September 30]] - The [[2007 FIFA Women's World Cup]] is held in [[People's Republic of China|China]].
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* [[September 11]] Russia unveils the [[FOAB]].
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* [[September 11]]-[[September 24]] - Inaugural [[2007 ICC World Twenty20|Twenty20 World Championship]] is held.
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* [[September 12]] - The [[Sandiganbayan]] found former [[Philippines]] President [[Joseph Estrada]] guilty beyond reasonable doubt on the charges of [[plunder]] but acquitted on the charges of [[perjury]].
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* [[September 12]] - [[Japan]]ese Prime Minister [[Shinzo Abe]] announces his resignation, to be effective [[September 19]].
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* [[September 12]] - [[Russia]]n Prime Minister [[Mikhail Fradkov]] and [[Mikhail Fradkov's Second Cabinet|his entire cabinet]] resign.
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* [[September 13]] - The [[Burj Dubai]] became the world's tallest free standing structure after surpassing the [[CN Tower]] in [[Toronto]].
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* [[September 14]] - The [[SELENE]] spacecraft launches. [[Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency|JAXA]] has called the mission, "the largest [[Moon|lunar]] mission since the [[Apollo program]]."
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* [[September 14]] - [[Viktor Zubkov]] is approved as the new [[Prime Minister of Russia]] after a vote in the [[State Duma|Duma]].
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* [[September 15]] - Over 3000 [[Taiwanese American]]s and their supporters rallied in front of [[UN]] in [[New York City]] to demonstrate the dedication that UN should accept Taiwan. At the same time, over 300,000 [[Taiwanese people]] rallied in Taiwan to make the same plea.
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* [[September 16]] - [[One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269]] crashes in [[Phuket]], [[Thailand]] , killing 89 of the passengers and crew.
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* [[September 18]] - The [[Federal Reserve]] cuts [[interest rates]] in the [[U.S]] by half a point (0.5%) for the first time since [[2006]] to ease the on-going panic in the [[financial markets]] due to the [[subprime]] crisis.   
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* [[September 19]] - [[2007 Pacific typhoon season#Typhoon Wipha .28Goring.29|Typhoon Wipha]] hits [[Fuding]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]. Authorities had evacuated over two million people prior to the storm's landfall.
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* [[September 20]] - Opening of the [[2007 Universal Forum of Cultures]], in the city of [[Monterrey]], [[Mexico]].
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* [[September 21]] - The [[Supreme Court of Chile]] rules that former [[Peru]]vian [[List of Presidents of Peru|President]] [[Alberto Fujimori]] must be extradited to Peru so Fujimori can face charges of corruption and human rights abuse.
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[[Image:2007 Myanmar protests 11 (M-cropped).jpg|thumb|150px|Myanmar protests]]
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* [[September 23]] - [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] [[Hakuho]] won the [[Emperor's Cup]] at the Autumn Grand [[Sumo]] Tournament (Aki Basho) in [[Tokyo]], Japan.
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* [[September 24]] - [[Labour Party Conference#2007 Bournemouth|Labour Party Conferences]] in [[Bournemouth]] at which [[Gordon Brown]] addresses delegates for the first time as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]].
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* [[September 24]] - [[India national cricket team|India]] won the [[2007 ICC World Twenty20|ICC Twenty20 WorldCup]] beating [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]] by 5 [[Run (cricket)|runs]].
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* [[September 25]] - [[Microsoft]] released [[Halo 3]], made by [[Bungie Studios|Bungie Studios]] 3.3 Million copies have been sold and helped sell over 500,000 [[Xbox 360]]s.
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* [[September 26]] - [[Emperor of Japan|Emperor]] [[Akihito]] formally swears in [[Yasuo Fukuda]] as the 91st [[Prime Minister of Japan]].
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* [[September 26]] - First confirmed deaths resulting from the [[Myanmar]] military's crackdown on [[2007 Burmese anti-government protests|weeks long anti-government protests]]. [[Bhikkhu|Buddhist monks]] are arrested and [[Internet]] access is cut from the public.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,508395,00.html Spiegel:Internetverbindung nach Burma gekappt (German)] </ref>
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* [[September 26]] - In southern [[Vietnam]] the [[Can Tho Bridge]], which is under construction, [[Collapse of Can Tho Bridge|collapses]], killing scores of workers.
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* [[September 30]] - [[Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary re-elections]] occur in [[Ukraine]] after [[President of Ukraine|Ukrainian President]] [[Victor Yuschenko]] dismisses [[Parliament of Ukraine|Parliament]].
  
 
===October===
 
===October===
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* [[October 21]] - An [[Ontario general election, 2007|election in the Canadian province of Ontario]] will take place.
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* [[October 27]] - An [[Elections in Argentina, 2007|election in Argentina]] will elect the [[President of Argentina|President]] and members of the [[Argentine National Congress|National Congress]].
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* [[October 1]] - The minimum age for purchasing [[tobacco]] products is raised from 16 to 18 across [[England and Wales]].
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* Unknown date - An [[elections in Pakistan|election in Pakistan]] is due.
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* [[October 2]] - The second [[Inter-Korean Summit]] begins. [[South Korea]]n [[President of South Korea|President]] [[Roh Moo-hyun]] and [[North Korea]]n leader [[Kim Jong-il]] meet in [[Pyongyang]].
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* [[October 2]] - [[Los Ríos Region]] of [[Chile]] officially begins its functions as a new [[Regions of Chile|region]].
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* [[October 4]] - [[Spain|Spanish]] authorities arrest 22 people associated with the banned [[Batasuna]] party which campaigns for [[Basque Country (historical territory)|Basque]] independence, but also has ties to the terrorist group [[ETA]].
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* [[October 6]] - [[Pakistani presidential election, 2007|Presidential election]] occurs in [[Pakistan]].
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* [[October 8]] - Track and field star [[Marion Jones]] surrenders her five [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals she won in the [[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney Games]] after admitting to [[Doping (sport)|doping]].
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* [[October 9]] - An [[Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2007|election]] is held in the Canadian province of [[Newfoundland and Labrador]].
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* [[October 10]] - An [[Ontario general election, 2007|election and referendum in the Canadian province of Ontario]] takes place.
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* [[October 10]] - The [[SuccessTech Academy shooting|SuccessTech Academy school shooting]] occurs in [[Cleveland, Ohio]].
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*[[October 11]] - A small private plane crashes into a house in the [[Fontibon]] neighborhood near the [[El Dorado International Airport]] in [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]], killing 5 on board and 2 in the house.
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* [[October 13]] - [[New Zealand local body elections, 2007|Local Government Elections]] are held in [[New Zealand]].
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* [[October 15]] - [[Menzies Campbell|Sir Menzies Campbell]] resigns as leader of the British [[Liberal Democrats]].
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* [[October 15]] - The [[17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China]] takes place.
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* [[October 17]] - [[Whitehaven#Digital Switchover Trial|Whitehaven]], England becomes the first place in the [[United Kingdom]] to have one of its analogue [[terrestrial television]] signals switched off as part of [[Digital switchover in the United Kingdom|digital switchover]].
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[[Image:Wildfire California Santa Clarita.jpg|thumb|right|Flames burn [[Santa Clarita, California]] during the [[California wildfires of October 2007]].]]
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* [[October 18]] - After 8 years in exile, [[Benazir Bhutto]] returns to her homeland [[Pakistan]]. The same night, suicide attackers [[2007 Karachi bombing|blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy]], killing 136 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.
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* [[October 19]] - A gas explosion rocked [[Glorietta]], a shopping mall in [[Makati]], [[Philippines]] which [[2007 Glorietta explosion|killed 11 and injured more than 100 people]].
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* [[October 20]] - [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]'s governor [[Sonny Perdue]] declares state of emergency due to drought conditions.
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* [[October 20]] - [[South Africa national rugby team|South Africa]] defeats [[England national rugby team|England]] at the [[Rugby World Cup 2007]] final in [[Stade de France]], [[Paris]].
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* [[October 20]] - [[Jungle primary|Jungle (open) primary]] election are held for [[governor#United States|governor]] and the [[Louisiana State Legislature|legislature]] of the U.S. state of [[Louisiana]].
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[[Image:Donald Tusk.jpg|thumb|right|[[Donald Tusk]]]]
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* [[October 20]]&ndash;[[November 9]] - [[California wildfires of October 2007|Wildfires]] in [[Southern California]] result in the evacuation of more than 1,000,000 people and destroying over 1,600 homes and businesses.
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* [[October 21]] - First round of the [[Slovenian presidential election, 2007|presidential elections]] in [[Slovenia]]. The second round is to be held on [[November 11]].
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* [[October 21]] - [[Swiss federal election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] in [[Switzerland]].
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* [[October 21]] - [[Civic Platform]] led by [[Donald Tusk]] wins a snap [[Polish parliamentary election, 2007|parliamentary election]] in [[Poland]].
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* [[October 21]] - [[Kimi Räikkönen]] is crowned world champion as the [[2007 Formula One season]] ends at the [[Brazilian Grand Prix]].
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* [[October 23]] - The [[Space Shuttle Discovery]] successfully launched on mission [[STS-120]].
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* [[October 24]] - In the space of a few hours, [[17P/Holmes|Comet Holmes]] develops a coma and flares up to half a million times its former brightness, becoming visible to the naked eye. Its coma would later become larger in volume than the [[Sun]], making it the second comet to do so in 2007 after Comet McNaught.
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*[[October 25]] - The first [[Airbus A380]] passenger flight, operating for [[Singapore Airlines]], with flight number SQ380, flew scheduled service between [[Singapore]] and [[Sydney]], [[Australia]].
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*[[October 26]] - [[Apple Inc.]] launch the sixth major release of their Mac OS X operating system entitled, [[Mac OS X v10.5|Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard]].
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*[[October 28]] - The [[Holy See|Vatican]] [[beatification|beatifies]] 498 [[Spain|Spanish]] victims of religious persecution from before and during the [[Spanish Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071028/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_spain_beatifications|title=Vatican beatifies 498 Spanish martyrs |publisher=Yahoo News |accessdate=2007-10-28}}</ref>
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[[Image:Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - Foto Oficial 2.jpg|thumb|right|120px| [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]]]]
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* [[October 28]] - [[Argentine general election, 2007|Elections in Argentina]] for the [[President of Argentina|President]] and members of the [[Argentine National Congress|National Congress]]. [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]] wins presidential elections and becomes the first female elected president in Argentina.
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* [[October 28]] - The [[Boston Red Sox]] win the [[2007 World Series]] in a four-game sweep against the [[Colorado Rockies]].
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* [[October 30]] - [[Brazil]] is announced as the host of the [[FIFA World Cup 2014]].
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* [[October 31]] - A bus bomb in the central [[Russia]]n city of [[Tolyatti]] kills 8 and injures over 50 people.
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* [[October 31]] - [[World Economic Forum]] releases [[Global Competitiveness Report|The Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008]], at 11:00 CET.
  
 
===November===
 
===November===
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*[[4 November]] - [[Elections in Turkey|General Elections]] will be held in [[Turkey]].
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* Unknown date - The [[Large Hadron Collider]], a [[particle accelerator]] and collider at [[CERN]] in [[France]] and [[Switzerland]], is scheduled to be switched on.
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* [[November 1]] - The [[Election commission]] of [[Bangladesh]] is separated from the Judiciary department.
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* [[November 1]] - [[Martina Hingis]] of [[Switzerland]] announced her second retirement from professional tennis due to doping allegations and injuries.
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* [[November 1]] - [[London]]'s [[Metropolitan Police Service]] is found guilty of endangering the public following the fatal shooting of [[Jean Charles de Menezes]], an innocent [[Brazil]]ian who officers mistook for a [[suicide bomber]].
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* [[November 2]] - Four firefighters feared dead in the [[2007 Atherstone fire disaster]].
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* [[November 3]] - President [[Pervez Musharraf]] declares [[2007 Pakistani state of emergency|state of emergency]] in [[Pakistan]].
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* [[November 3]] - [[DARPA Grand Challenge]], a prized competition for driverless cars to navigate safely in traffic is scheduled.
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* [[November 4]] - [[Álvaro Colom]] wins the second round of the [[Guatemalan general election, 2007|presidential elections]] in [[Guatemala]].
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* [[November 4]] - Reformation Sunday is observed by [[Lutherans]] and other Protestants around the world, to commemorate the 490th anniversary ([[October 31]]) of the [[Ninety-Five Theses]], which began the [[Protestant Reformation]].
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* [[November 5]] - The [[2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike|Writers Guild of America goes on a strike]] that lasts until February 12, 2008.
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* [[November 6]] - A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people in [[Mazari Sharif]], [[Afghanistan]]. Among the dead are 6 members of the [[National Assembly of Afghanistan|National Assembly]].
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* [[November 6]] - [[United States general elections, 2007|Legislative elections]] are held in the U.S. states of [[Kentucky]], [[Mississippi]], [[New Jersey]], and [[Virginia]]; Kentucky and Mississippi also hold [[United States gubernatorial elections, 2007|gubernatorial elections]].
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* [[November 7]] - The [[Jokela school shooting]] occurs. [[Finland|Finnish]] youth Pekka-Eric Auvinen shoots dead 8 people and wounds one at the Jokela School Centre.
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* [[November 7]] - A 48 hour long [[state of emergency]] for [[Tbilisi]] is declared by [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] President [[Mikheil Saakashvili]] due to the [[2007 Georgian demonstrations|intense anti-government protests]] that have gripped the capital city.
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* [[November 8]] - The [[Latin Grammy Awards of 2007|8th annual Latin Grammy Awards]] were held at the [[Mandalay Bay Events Center]] at [[Mandalay Bay]] on the [[Las Vegas Strip]] in [[Paradise, Nevada]], [[United States|USA]], near [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]].
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* [[November 11]] - [[Slovenia]]ns vote in the final round of the [[Slovenian presidential election, 2007|nation's presidential elections]]. [[Danilo Türk]] won the race with 68.26% of the vote.
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* [[November 13]] - An [[Batasang Pambansa bombing|explosion]] hits the south wing of the [[House of Representatives of the Philippines|House of Representatives]] of the [[Philippines]] in [[Quezon City]], north of [[Manila]], killing four people, including [[Basilan]] Congressman [[Wahab Akbar]], and wounding 6 others.
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* [[November 13]] - [[Danish parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] in [[Denmark]]. Prime Minister [[Anders Fogh Rasmussen]]'s coalition wins a third term.
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* [[November 14]] - [[High Speed 1]] from [[London]] to the [[Channel Tunnel]] is opened to passengers.
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* [[November 14]] - A [[2007 Antofagasta earthquake|7.7 magnitude earthquake occurs]] in northern [[Chile]].
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* [[November 16]] - Over 3,000 people are believed to have died after [[Cyclone Sidr]] hits [[Bangladesh]], with the death toll expected to rise.
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* [[November 17]] - [[Kosovan parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] in [[Kosovo]].
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* [[November 18]] - The [[2007 Zasyadko mine disaster|Zasyadko mine disaster]] in eastern [[Ukraine]] claims the lives of 101 miners.
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[[Image:KevinRuddZoom.JPG|thumb|right|120px| [[Kevin Rudd]]]]
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* [[November 20]] - The UK's [[HM Revenue and Customs]] admits that it has misplaces two computer discs which contained the records of child benefit claimants data, including bank details and [[National Insurance]] numbers, in the United Kingdom, leaving up to 7.25 million households susceptible to identity theft.
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* [[November 21]] - [[Senegal]]ese street vendors riot in [[Dakar]] after government attempts to ban them from operating in the center of the capital city.
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* [[November 21]] - [[Calcutta]] - Protests over Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen turn into deadly riots, troops are deployed. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7105277.stm |title=Army deployed after Calcutta riot}}</ref>
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* [[November 22]] - [[Vladimer Gurgenidze]] becomes the 17th [[Prime Minister of Georgia]].
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* [[November 24]] - [[Australian Labor Party]] wins the [[Australian federal election, 2007|federal election]] in [[Australia]]; Labor leader [[Kevin Rudd]] is elected to succeed [[John Howard]] as [[Prime Minister of Australia]].
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* [[November 24]] - Police broke up [[2007 Russian protests|anti-Putin demonstrations]] in [[Saint Petersburg]] and [[Moscow]].
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* [[November 24]] - The National [[Australian Football League]] draft will take place.
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* [[November 25]] - A [[European Parliament election, 2007|European Parliament election]] will take place in [[Romania]].
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* [[November 25]] - [[Croatian parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] is held in [[Croatia]].
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* [[November 25]] - [[Nawaz Sharif]] makes a second attempt to return to Pakistan along with his brother [[Shahbaz Sharif]] and other family members.
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* [[November 25]] - [[2007 civil unrest in Villiers-le-Bel (France)|Riots continue for a second night]] in [[Val-d'Oise]], [[France]] following the death of two youths in a motorcycle collision with a police vehicle.
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* [[November 27]] - [[UNDP|United Nations Development Programme]] releases the 2007/2008 [[Human Development Report]].
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[[Image:20071127 Abbas speech at Annapolis Conference.jpg|thumb|[[Mahmoud Abbas]] addresses the [[Annapolis Conference]].]]
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* [[November 27]] - The [[Annapolis Conference]], a peace conference trying to end the [[Arab-Israeli conflict]], is held in Annapolis, Maryland in the United States.
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* [[November 28]] - [[President of Pakistan]] [[Pervez Musharraf]] stands down as the head of the [[Pakistan Army]] and was successed by Lt. General [[Ashfaq Parvez Kayani]].
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* [[November 29]] - The [[Armed Forces of the Philippines]] lays siege to [[The Peninsula Manila]] after soldiers led by [[Senate of the Philippines|Senator]] [[Antonio Trillanes]] stage a [[Manila Peninsula Mutiny|mutiny]].
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* [[November 30]] - The [[2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season]] officially ends.
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* [[November 30]] - [[Atlasjet Flight 4203]] crashes near [[Keçiborlu]], [[Turkey]], killing all 56 people on board.
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===December===
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* [[December 2]] - [[United Russia]] wins [[Russian legislative election, 2007|parliamentary elections]] in [[Russia]], increasing their majority with 60% of the votes.
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* [[December 2]] - [[Venezuela]]n President [[Hugo Chávez]]'s proposed changes to the [[Constitution of Venezuela|Venezuelan constitution]] are narrowly defeated in [[Venezuelan constitutional referendum, 2007|a nationwide referendum]].
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* [[December 3]] - [[Kevin Rudd]] is sworn in as the [[Prime Minister of Australia|26th Prime Minister of Australia]], by [[Governor-General of Australia|Governor General]] [[Michael Jeffery|Major-General Michael Jeffery]].
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* [[December 3]] - [[December 14|14]] - [[United Nations Climate Change Conference]] at [[Nusa Dua]] in [[Bali]], [[Indonesia]]
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* [[December 4]] - [[Programme for International Student Assessment|The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)]] releases the results of the PISA 2006 survey.
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* [[December 5]] - 19-year old Robert A. Hawkins [[Westroads Mall shooting|shoots eight people dead and injures five at the Westroads Mall]] in [[Omaha]], [[Nebraska]], then commits suicide.
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* [[December 6]] - A [[pipe bomb]] explodes in a law office in [[Paris]], [[France]], killing one person.
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* [[December 7]] - [[Uranus]]' [[orbit]] will be positioned such that the [[sun]] shines directly above its [[equator]] (i.e. an [[equinox]])
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* [[December 8]] - [[2007 Africa-EU Summit]] takes place as [[European Union]] and [[African Union]] leaders gather in [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]], for their first joint summit in seven years. The [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Czech Republic|Czech]] prime ministers boycott the event due to the presence of [[List of Presidents of Zimbabwe|Zimbabwean President]] [[Robert Mugabe]].
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* [[December 10]] - The [[United Nations]] deadline for a negotiated settlement on the future of [[Kosovo]] passed without an international agreement.
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* [[December 10]] - [[Led Zeppelin]] reunites in [[London]], [[England]], for the [[Ahmet Ertegün]] tribute.
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* [[December 11]] - In [[Algiers]], [[Algeria]], [[11 December 2007 Algiers bombings|two bombs explode within ten minutes of each other]], the first near a UN office and the other detonated close to the Algerian Supreme Court. The official death count for both blasts stands as 31.
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* [[December 12]] - Election by the [[Swiss Federal Assembly|Swiss Parliament]] of [[Switzerland]]'s highest executive authority, the [[Swiss Federal Council]] (7 members). All the sitting members are confirmed, except [[Christoph Blocher]], who in an upset is replaced by [[Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf]]. This is only the sixth time in Swiss history a sitting member is not reconfirmed.
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* [[December 13]] - European leaders sign the [[Treaty of Lisbon]] in [[Lisbon]].
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* [[December 13]] - Entry into force of the revised version of the [[European Patent Convention]] (EPC), known as the [[EPC 2000]].
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* [[December 13]] - Former US Senator [[George J. Mitchell]] publicly releases a [[Mitchell Report (baseball)|report]] accusing 89 retired and active [[Major League Baseball]] players of [[anabolic steroid]] use.
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[[Image:Lee Myung-bak-2005.jpg|thumb|right|120px| [[Lee Myung-bak]]]]
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* [[December 14]]-[[December 24]] - [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale|FAI]] World [[Grand Prix gliding|Grand Prix]] Gliding Championship at [[Omarama]], [[New Zealand]].
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* [[December 15]] - [[President of Pakistan]] [[Pervez Musharraf]] had lifted the [[2007 Pakistani state of emergency|State of Emergency]] in [[Pakistan]].
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* [[December 16]] - [[Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] in [[Kyrgyzstan]].
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* [[December 18]] - The [[Verkhovna Rada]] has approved [[Yulia Tymoshenko]] to become [[Prime Minister of Ukraine|Prime Minister]] of [[Ukraine]].
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* [[December 18]] - [[Jacob Zuma]] is elected president of the [[African National Congress]] political party in [[South Africa]] during the [[52nd National Conference of the African National Congress|party's national conference]].
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* [[December 19]] - A [[South Korean presidential election, 2007|presidential election]] takes place in [[South Korea]]. Former [[Mayor of Seoul|mayor]] of [[Seoul]] [[Lee Myung-bak]], of the [[Grand National Party]], won with 50% of the vote against two other major opponents.
 +
* [[December 19]] - [[Vladimir Putin]], [[President of Russia]], is announced as [[Time (magazine)|Time magazine's]] 2007 [[Person of the Year]].
 +
* [[December 19]] - An explosion and fire at the [[T2 Laboratories]] facility in [[Jacksonville, Florida]] kills 4 and injures 14.
 +
* [[December 19]] - The ''[[Flying Phantom]]'' sinks in the [[River Clyde]], three crew are killed.
 +
* [[December 20]] - A group of activist [[Lakota people|Lakota]] Indians send a letter to the [[United States]] [[State Department]] declaring their secession from the Union.
 +
* [[December 20]] - An [[2007 Gisborne earthquake|earthquake]] of magnitude 6.6 [[Richter magnitude scale|M<sub>L</sub>]] hits the east coast of the [[North Island]] of [[New Zealand]], causing one death and significant damage in the town of [[Gisborne, New Zealand|Gisborne]].
 +
* [[December 20]] - The painting ''[[Portrait of Suzanne Bloch]]'' ([[1904]]), by the Spanish artist [[Pablo Picasso]], was stolen from the [[São Paulo Museum of Art]], together with ''O Lavrador de Café'' [http://ritualcafe.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/lavrador-de-cafe.jpg], by the major Brazilian modernist painter [[Candido Portinari]].
 +
* [[December 21]] - [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] became the oldest-ever Monarch of the [[United Kingdom]], surpassing [[Queen Victoria]], who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
 +
* [[December 21]] - The [[Czech Republic]], [[Estonia]], [[Hungary]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Malta]], [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]], and [[Slovenia]] join the [[Schengen Agreement|Schengen]] border-free zone.
 +
* [[December 23]] - A [[Conjunction (astronomy and astrology)#2007|grand conjunction]] in which the solar system will align with the galactic center.
 +
* [[December 23]] - A [[Thai general election, 2007|general election]] is held in [[Thailand]]. The [[People's Power Party (Thailand)|People's Power Party]], which is associated with former Prime Minster [[Thaksin Shinawatra]], wins a majority of seats in the [[Parliament of Thailand|parliament]].
 +
* [[December 23]] - [[Uzbekistani presidential election, 2007|Presidential election]] in [[Uzbekistan]].
 +
* [[December 24]] - The [[Nepal]]ese government announces that the country's 240-year-old [[Nepalese monarchy|monarchy]] will be abolished in [[2008]] and a new [[republic]] will be declared.
 +
* [[December 25]] - An overcrowded suspension bridge collapsed near [[Nepalgunj]], [[Nepal]]. At least 15 people are dead, with 100 to 200 missing.
 +
* [[December 25]] -  An escaped [[San Francisco Zoo tiger attacks|tiger]] at the [[San Francisco Zoo]] kills one person and injures two others.
 +
* [[December 25]] - [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] broadcasts her 50th televised [[Royal Christmas Message]] to the [[Commonwealth]].
 +
* [[December 27]] - Former [[Pakistan]]i prime minister [[Benazir Bhutto]] is assassinated, and at least 20 others are [[Assassination of Benazir Bhutto|killed by a bomb blast]] at an election rally in [[Rawalpindi]].
 +
* [[December 27]] - [[Kenyan presidential election, 2007|Presidential]] and [[Kenyan parliamentary election, 2007|parliamentary elections]] took place in [[Kenya]].
 +
* [[December 29]] - After defeating the [[New York Giants]] 38-35, the [[New England Patriots]] become the second team in [[National Football League|NFL]] history to finish the regular season undefeated.
 +
* [[December 31]] - Over 200 people are killed in [[Kenya]] due to riots over the results of the [[Kenyan presidential election, 2007|presidential election]] which occurred on December 27.
 +
* [[December 31]] - The [[Big Dig (Boston, Massachusetts)|Big Dig project]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] is completed.
 +
 
 +
==Ongoing==
 +
* [[Iraq War]]
 +
* [[War in Afghanistan]]
 +
* [[Conflict in Darfur]]
 +
* [[Israeli-Palestinian conflict]]
 +
 
 +
==Births==
 +
 
 +
* [[February 28]] - [[HRH]] [[Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco]], daughter of [[Mohammed VI of Morocco|Mohammed VI]] of [[Morocco]] and his wife, [[Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco|Princess Lalla Salma]].
 +
* [[March 12]] - [[Xan Windsor, Lord Culloden]], son of [[Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster]] and [[Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster]].
 +
* [[March 14]] - [[Simeon Hassan Muñoz]], son of [[Princess Kalina of Bulgaria]] and [[Antonio "Kitín" Muñoz Valcárcel|Kitín Muñoz]].
 +
* [[March 17]] - [[HRH]] Prince [[Abdul Muntaqim]], son of [[HRH]] [[Al-Muhtadee Billah]] and his wife, [[HRH]] [[Pengiran Anak Sarah]], the Crown Prince and Princess of Brunei.
 +
* [[March 19]] - [[HRH]] [[Prince Abdullah bin Al Ali]], son of [[Prince Ali bin Al Hussein]] and Rym Brahimi.
 +
* [[April 7]] - [[HRH]] [[Princess Haalah bint Al Hashim]], daughter of [[Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein]] and Princess Fahdah Mohammed Abu Neyan.
 +
* [[April 10]] - [[HRH]] [[Princess Ariane of the Netherlands]], daughter of [[Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange|Prince Willem-Alexander]] and [[Princess Máxima of the Netherlands|Princess Máxima]].
 +
* [[April 18]] - [[HRH]] [[Princess Hayah bint Al Hamzah]], daughter of [[Prince Hamzah]] and Princess Noor bint Asem bin Nayef.
 +
* [[April 18]] - [[HRH]] [[Prince Lerotholi Seeiso]], son of King [[Letsie III of Lesotho]] and Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso.
 +
* [[April 21]] - [[HRH]] [[Princess Isabella of Denmark]], daughter of [[Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark|Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark]] and his wife, [[Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark|Crown Princess Mary]].
 +
* [[April 29]] - [[HRH]] [[Infanta Sofía of Spain]], daughter of [[Felipe, Prince of Asturias]] and his wife, [[Letizia, Princess of Asturias]].
 +
* [[September 22]] - [[Albert Windsor]], son of [[Lord Nicholas Windsor]] and [[Lady Nicholas Windsor|Paola Doimi de Frankopan]].
 +
* [[December 17]] - [[James Windsor, Viscount Severn]], son of [[Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex]] and [[Sophie, The Countess of Wessex]].
 +
 
 +
==Deaths==
 +
{{main|Deaths in 2007}}
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===January===
 +
* [[January 1]] - [[Leonard Fraser]], Australian serial killer (b. [[1951]])
 +
* [[January 1]] - [[Ernie Koy]], American baseball player (b. [[1909]])
 +
* [[January 1]] - [[Darrent Williams]], American football player (b. [[1982]])
 +
* [[January 2]] - [[Teddy Kollek]], Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. [[1911]])
 +
* [[January 3]] - [[Sergio Jiménez]], Mexican actor (b. [[1937]])
 +
* [[January 4]] - [[Marais Viljoen]], State [[President of South Africa]] (b. [[1915]])
 +
* [[January 5]] - [[Momofuku Ando]], Japanese inventor (b. [[1910]])
 +
* [[January 6]] - [[Mario Danelo]], American college football player (b. [[1985]])
 +
* [[January 7]] - [[Bobby Hamilton]], American race car driver (b. [[1957]])
 +
* [[January 7]] - [[Magnus Magnusson]], Icelandic-born television presenter (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[January 8]] - [[Iwao Takamoto]], Japanese animator (b. [[1925]])
 +
* [[January 8]] - [[Yvonne de Carlo]], American actress (b. [[1922]])
 +
* [[January 9]] - [[Jean-Pierre Vernant]], French historian and anthropologist (b. [[1914]])
 +
* [[January 10]] - [[Carlo Ponti]], Italian film producer (b. [[1912]])
 +
* [[January 11]] - [[Robert Anton Wilson]], American author and conspiracy researcher (b. [[1932]])
 +
* [[January 12]] - [[Alice Coltrane]], American jazz musician (b. [[1937]])
 +
* [[January 13]] - [[Michael Brecker]], American jazz musician (b. [[1949]])
 +
* [[January 13]] - [[Henri-Jean Martin]], French expert on book history (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[January 14]] - [[Darlene Conley]], American actress (b. [[1934]])
 +
* [[January 14]] - [[Barbara Kelly]], Canadian actress (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[January 15]] - [[Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti]], Iraqi politician (b. [[1951]])
 +
* [[January 15]] - [[Awad Hamed al-Bandar]], Iraqi judge (b. [[1945]])
 +
* [[January 15]] - [[Bo Yibo]], Chinese politician (b. [[1908]])
 +
* [[January 16]] - [[Benny Parsons]], American race car driver and television personality (b. [[1941]])
 +
* [[January 17]] - [[Art Buchwald]], American humorist (b. [[1925]])
 +
* [[January 19]] - [[Hrant Dink]], Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. [[1954]])
 +
* [[January 19]] - [[Denny Doherty]], Canadian musician ([[The Mamas and the Papas]]) (b. [[1940]])
 +
* [[January 19]] - [[Bam Bam Bigelow]], American wrestler (b. [[1961]])
 +
* [[January 21]] - [[U;Nee]], South Korean singer and actress (b. [[1981]])
 +
* [[January 22]] - [[Abbé Pierre]], French priest and founder of Emmaus (b. [[1912]])
 +
* [[January 22]] - [[Carlos Olivier]], Venezuelan actor (b. [[1952]])
 +
* [[January 23]] - [[Disco D|David Aaron Shayman aka Disco D]], American music producer and composer (b. [[1980]])
 +
* [[January 23]] - [[Ryszard Kapuscinski]], Polish journalist and author (b. [[1932]])
 +
* [[January 26]] - [[Gump Worsley]], Canadian hockey player (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[January 28]] - [[Cyril Demarne]], British wartime firefighter (b. [[1905]])
 +
* [[January 28]] - [[Hsu Wei Lun]], Taiwanese actress (b. [[1978]])
 +
* [[January 30]] - [[Sidney Sheldon]], American author and screenwriter (b. [[1917]])
 +
* [[January 31]] - [[Kirka Babitzin]], Finnish singer (b. [[1950]])
 +
* [[January 31]] - [[Lee Bergere]], American actor (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[January 31]] - [[Molly Ivins]], American columnist (b. [[1944]])
 +
 
 +
===February===
 +
[[Image:Anna Nicole Smith.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Anna Nicole Smith]]]]
 +
* [[February 1]] - [[Gian Carlo Menotti]], Italian-born composer and librettist (b. [[1911]])
 +
* [[February 3]] - [[Pedro Knight]], Cuban-born musician (b. [[1921]])
 +
* [[February 3]] - [[Billy Henderson (American singer)|Billy Henderson]], American singer ([[The Spinners (U.S. band)|The Spinners]]) (b. [[1939]])
 +
* [[February 6]] - [[Frankie Laine]], American singer (b. [[1913]])
 +
* [[February 7]] - [[Alan MacDiarmid]], New Zealand chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1927]])
 +
* [[February 7]] - [[Helen Duncan (politician)|Helen Duncan]], New Zealand politician (b. [[1941]])
 +
* [[February 8]] - [[Anna Nicole Smith]], American model and television personality (b. [[1967]])
 +
* [[February 9]] - [[Benedict Kiely]], Irish author and broadcaster (b. [[1919]])
 +
* [[February 9]] - [[Ian Richardson]], Scottish actor (b. [[1934]])
 +
* [[February 9]] - [[Alejandro Finisterre]], Spanish poet, editor, and inventor of table football (b. [[1919]])
 +
* [[February 10]] - [[Jung Da Bin]], Korean actress (b. [[1980]])
 +
* [[February 11]] - [[Reginald Hugh Hickling]], British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author (b. [[1920]])
 +
* [[February 12]] - [[Peggy Gilbert]], American saxophonist (b. [[1905]])
 +
* [[February 13]] - [[Elizabeth Jolley]], Australian writer (b. [[1923]])
 +
[[Image:Bruce Bennett in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre trailer.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Bruce Bennett]]]]
 +
* [[February 13]] - [[Charlie Norwood|Charles Norwood]], American politician (b. [[1941]])
 +
* [[February 13]] - [[Eliana Ramos]], Uruguayan model (b. [[1988]])
 +
* [[February 13]] - [[Johanna Sällström]], Swedish actress (b. [[1974]])
 +
* [[February 15]] - [[Robert Adler]], Austrian-born inventor (b. [[1913]])
 +
* [[February 17]] - [[Maurice Papon]], French Vichy government official (b. [[1910]])
 +
* [[February 17]] - [[Dermot O'Reilly]], Irish-born musician ([[Ryan's Fancy]]) (b. [[1942]])
 +
* [[February 17]] - [[Mike Awesome]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1965]])
 +
* [[February 18]] - [[Juan "Pachín" Vicéns]], Puerto Rican basketball player (b. [[1933]])
 +
[[Image:ArthurMSchlesingerJrCalcutta.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]]]]
 +
* [[February 22]] - [[Lothar-Günther Buchheim]], German author, painter, and art collector (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[February 22]] - [[Fons Rademakers]], Dutch film director (b. [[1920]])
 +
* [[February 22]] - [[Dennis Johnson]], American basketball player (b. [[1954]])
 +
* [[February 24]] - [[Damien Nash]], American football player (b. [[1982]])
 +
* [[February 24]] - [[Bruce Bennett]], American actor (b. [[1906]])
 +
* [[February 27]] - [[Bobby Rosengarden]], American drummer (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[February 28]] - [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]], American historian and political commentator (b. [[1917]])
 +
* [[February 28]] - [[Billy Thorpe]], Australian musician ([[Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs]]) (b. [[1946]])
 +
* [[February 28]] - [[Charles Forte]], English hotelier (b. [[1908]])
 +
 
 +
===March===
 +
* [[March 2]] - [[Henri Troyat]], French writer (b. [[1911]])
 +
* [[March 2]] - [[Madi Phala]], South African artist (b. [[1955]])
 +
* [[March 3]] - [[Warja Honegger-Lavater]], Swiss illustrator (b. [[1913]])
 +
* [[March 4]] - [[Natalie Bodanya]], American soprano (b. [[1908]])
 +
* [[March 4]] - [[Thomas Eagleton]], American politician (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[March 4]] - [[Bob Hattoy]], American activist (b. [[1950]])
 +
* [[March 4]] - [[Richard Joseph]], British game music composer (b. [[1954]])
 +
* [[March 4]] - [[Sunil Kumar Mahato]], Indian parliamentarian (b. [[1966]])
 +
[[Image:WikipediaBaudrillard20040612.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Jean Baudrillard]]]]
 +
* [[March 4]] - [[Tadeusz Nalepa]], Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. [[1934]])
 +
* [[March 4]] - [[Ian Wooldridge]], British sports journalist (b. [[1932]])
 +
* [[March 6]] - [[Jean Baudrillard]], French philosopher and sociologist (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[March 6]] - [[Allen Coage]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1943]])
 +
* [[March 6]] - [[Ernest Gallo]], American winemaker (b. [[1909]])
 +
* [[March 8]] - [[John Inman]], English actor (b. [[1935]])
 +
* [[March 9]] - [[Brad Delp]], American singer ([[Boston (band)|Boston]]) (b. [[1951]])
 +
* [[March 10]] - [[Richard Jeni]], American comedian (b. [[1957]])
 +
* [[March 10]] - [[Ernie Ladd]], American football player and professional wrestler (b. [[1938]])
 +
* [[March 10]] - [[Angela Webber]], Australian author, TV writer, producer and comedian (b. [[1954]])
 +
* [[March 11]] - [[Betty Hutton]], American actress (b. [[1921]])
 +
[[Image:Betty Hutton HD-SN-99-02415.JPEG|120px|thumb|[[Betty Hutton]]]]
 +
* [[March 12]] - [[Antonio Ortiz Mena]], Mexican politician and economist (b. [[1907]])
 +
* [[March 13]] - [[Arnold Skaaland]], American wrestler (b. [[1925]])
 +
* [[March 14]] - [[Lucie Aubrac]], French World War II Resistance fighter (b. [[1912]])
 +
* [[March 14]] - [[Gareth Hunt]], English actor (b. [[1943]])
 +
* [[March 15]] - [[Bowie Kuhn]], [[Commissioner of Baseball|Major League Baseball Commissioner]] (b. [[1926]])
 +
* [[March 16]] - [[Manjural Islam Rana|Manjural Islam]], Bangladeshi cricketer (b. [[1984]])
 +
* [[March 16]] - [[Sir Arthur Marshall]], British aviation engineer (b. [[1903]])
 +
* [[March 17]] - [[Jim Cronin]], British businessman (b. [[1952]])
 +
* [[March 17]] - [[Roger Bennett (Southern Gospel performer)|Roger Bennett]], American Southern Gospel Vocalist and Pianist
 +
* [[March 18]] - [[Bob Woolmer]], English cricketer and coach (b. [[1948]])
 +
* [[March 19]] - [[Calvert DeForest]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1921]])
 +
* [[March 19]] - [[Luther Ingram]], American singer (b. [[1937]])
 +
* [[March 20]] - [[Taha Yassin Ramadan]], Vice President of Iraq (b. [[1938]])
 +
*[[March 23]] - [[Eric Medlen]], American race car driver (b. [[1973]])
 +
* [[March 25]] - [[Andranik Margaryan]], 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. [[1951]])
 +
 
 +
===April===
 +
[[Image:Kittycarlisle.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Kitty Carlisle Hart]]]]
 +
[[Image:Boris Yeltsin 1993.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Boris Yeltsin]]]]
 +
[[Image:Mstislav Rostropovich 1978.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Mstislav Rostropovich]]]]
 +
* [[April 1]] - [[Laurie Baker]], English architect (b. [[1917]])
 +
* [[April 1]] - [[Driss Chraibi]], Moroccan writer (b. [[1926]])
 +
* [[April 1]] - [[Hans Filbinger]], German jurist and politician (b. [[1913]])
 +
* [[April 2]] - [[Henry Lee Giclas]], American astronomer (b. [[1910]])
 +
* [[April 3]] - [[Eddie Robinson (football coach)|Eddie Robinson]], American football coach (b. [[1919]])
 +
* [[April 4]] - [[Bob Clark]], American film director (b. [[1939]])
 +
* [[April 5]] - [[Thomas Stoltz Harvey]] Pathologist who conducted Albert Einstein's autopsy (b. [[1912]])
 +
* [[April 5]] - [[Leela Majumdar]], Bengali children's author (b. [[1908]])
 +
* [[April 5]] - [[Darryl Stingley]], American football player (b. [[1951]])
 +
* [[April 5]] - [[Poornachandra Tejaswi]], Indian writer and novelist  (b. [[1938]])
 +
* [[April 6]] - [[Luigi Comencini]], Italian film director (b. [[1916]])
 +
* [[April 7]] - [[Johnny Hart]], American cartoonist (b. [[1931]])
 +
* [[April 7]] - [[Barry Nelson]], American actor (b. [[1920]])
 +
* [[April 7]] - [[Carey W. Barber]], English Jehovah's Witnesses leader (b. [[1905]])
 +
* [[April 9]] - [[AJ Carothers]], American writer (b. [[1931]])
 +
* [[April 10]] - [[Kevin Crease]] Australian news presenter and entertainer (b. [[1936]])
 +
* [[April 11]] - [[Roscoe Lee Browne]], American actor (b. [[1925]])
 +
* [[April 11]] - [[Kurt Vonnegut]], American novelist and playwright (b. [[1922]])
 +
* [[April 13]] - [[Don Selwyn]], Māori actor and film director (b. circa [[1936]])
 +
* [[April 14]] - [[June Callwood]], Canadian journalist (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[April 14]] - [[Don Ho]], American musician (b. [[1930]])
 +
* [[April 15]] - [[Brant Parker]], American cartoonist (b. [[1920]])
 +
* [[April 16]] - [[Frank Bateson]], New Zealand astronomer (b. [[1909]])
 +
* [[April 17]] - [[Kitty Carlisle Hart]], American singer, actress & talk show panelist (b. [[1910]])
 +
* [[April 17]] - [[Iccho Itoh]], Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (assassinated) (b. [[1945]])
 +
* [[April 20]] - [[Michael Fu Tieshan]], Chinese bishop (b. [[1931]])
 +
* [[April 22]] - [[Juanita Millender-McDonald]], American politician (b. [[1938]])
 +
* [[April 23]] - [[David Halberstam]], American author and journalist (b. [[1934]])
 +
* [[April 23]] - [[Boris Yeltsin]], first [[President of the Russian Federation]] (b. [[1931]])
 +
* [[April 25]] - [[Alan Ball, Jr.|Alan Ball]], English footballer (b. [[1945]])
 +
* [[April 25]] - [[Arthur Milton]], English cricketer and footballer (b. [[1928]])
 +
* [[April 25]] - [[Bobby Pickett]], American singer (b. [[1938]])
 +
* [[April 26]] - [[Jack Valenti]], American film executive, creator of [[MPAA film rating system]] (b. [[1921]])
 +
* [[April 26]] - [[Conchita Montenegro]], Spanish model and actress (b. [[1912]])
 +
* [[April 27]] - [[Mstislav Rostropovich]], Russian cellist and conductor (b. [[1927]])
 +
* [[April 28]] - [[Dabbs Greer]], American actor ([[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House on the Prairie]]) (b. [[1917]])
 +
* [[April 28]] - [[Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker]], German physicist and philosopher (b. [[1912]])
 +
* [[April 29]] - [[Ivica Račan]], 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. [[1944]])
 +
* [[April 29]] - [[Josh Hancock]], American baseball player (b. [[1978]])
 +
* [[April 29]] - [[Dick Motz]], New Zealand cricket player (b. [[1940]])
 +
* [[April 30]] - [[Grégory Lemarchal]], French singer (b. [[1983]])
 +
* [[April 30]] - [[Kevin Mitchell (football player)|Kevin Mitchell]], American football player (b. [[1971]])
 +
* [[April 30]] - [[Tom Poston]], American actor (b. [[1921]])
 +
* [[April 30]] - [[Gordon Scott]], American actor (b. [[1926]])
 +
 
 +
===May===
 +
[[Image:Wallyshirra.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Wally Schirra]]]]
 +
[[Image:Jerry Falwell portrait.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Jerry Falwell]]]]
 +
* [[May 2]] - [[Juan Valdivieso]], Peruvian footballer (b. [[1910]])
 +
* [[May 2]] - [[Brad McGann]], New Zealand film director and screenwriter (b. [[1964]])
 +
* [[May 3]] - [[Wally Schirra]], American astronaut (b. [[1923]])
 +
* [[May 5]] - [[Theodore Harold Maiman|Theodore Maiman]], American physicist (b. [[1927]])
 +
* [[May 5]] - [[Gusti Wolf]], Austrian actress (b. [[1912]])
 +
* [[May 6]] - [[Lesley Blanch]], English writer and fashion editor (b. [[1904]])
 +
* [[May 7]] - [[Emma Lehmer]], Russian-born mathematician (b. [[1906]])
 +
* [[May 11]] - [[Bernard Gordon]], American screenwriter (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[May 11]] - [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]], Samoan head of state (b. [[1913]])
 +
* [[May 12]] - [[Mullah Dadullah Akhund]], Afghani Taliban military leader
 +
* [[May 14]] - [[Colin St John Wilson]], English architect (b. [[1922]])
 +
* [[May 15]] - [[Jerry Falwell]], American evangelist (b. [[1933]])
 +
* [[May 15]] - [[Yolanda King]], American actress and activist, daughter of [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] (b. [[1955]])
 +
* [[May 17]] - [[Lloyd Alexander]], American author (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[May 18]] - [[Pierre-Gilles de Gennes]], French physicist and [[Nobel Prize for Physics]] laureate (b. [[1932]])
 +
* [[May 18]] - [[Yoyoy Villame]], Filipino singer "King of Philippine Novelty Songs." (b. [[1938]])
 +
* [[May 19]] - [[Dean Eyre]], New Zealand politician (b. [[1914]])
 +
* [[May 20]] - [[Stanley Miller]], American chemist and biologist (b. [[1930]])
 +
* [[May 25]] - [[Charles Nelson Reilly]], American actor (b. [[1931]])
 +
* [[May 27]] - [[Izumi Sakai]], Japanese singer ([[Zard]]) (b. [[1967]])
 +
* [[May 27]] - [[Percy Sonn]], South African lawyer and cricket executive (b. [[1949]])
 +
* [[May 27]] - [[Ed Yost]], American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (b. [[1919]])
 +
* [[May 28]] - [[Marquise Hill]], American football player (b. [[1982]])
 +
 
 +
===June===
 +
[[Image:Thomascraigportrait.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Craig L. Thomas]]]]
 +
* [[June 2]] - [[Huang Ju]], Chinese politician (b. [[1938]])
 +
* [[June 4]] - [[Bill France, Jr.]], American President/CEO of [[NASCAR]] (b. [[1933]])
 +
* [[June 4]] - [[Craig L. Thomas]], American politician (b. [[1933]])
 +
* [[June 5]] - [[Povel Ramel]], Swedish entertainer (b. [[1922]])
 +
* [[June 8]] - [[Aden Abdullah Osman Daar]], first [[List of Presidents of Somalia|President of Somalia]] (b. [[1908]])
 +
* [[June 10]] - [[Augie Auer]], meteorologist (b. [[1940]])
 +
* [[June 11]] - [[Imre Friedmann]], American scientist (b. [[1921]])
 +
* [[June 11]] - [[Mala Powers]], American film actress  (b. [[1931]])
 +
* [[June 12]] - [[Don Herbert]], American television personality, ''Mr. Wizard'' (b. [[1917]])
 +
* [[June 13]] - [[David Hatch]], BBC Radio producer and comedian (b. [[1939]])
 +
* [[June 14]] - [[Ruth Bell Graham]], Wife of Billy Graham (b. [[1920]])
 +
* [[June 14]] - [[Jacques Simonet]], Belgian politician (b. [[1963]])
 +
* [[June 14]] - [[Kurt Waldheim]], Austrian politician and diplomat (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[June 15]] - [[Sherri Martel]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1958]])
 +
* [[June 17]] - [[Gianfranco Ferrè]], Italian designer (b. [[1944]])
 +
* [[June 18]] - [[Bernard Manning]], English comedian (b. [[1930]])
 +
* [[June 18]] - [[Vilma Espín]], Wife of Raúl Castro (b. [[1930]])
 +
* [[June 18]] - [[Georges Thurston]], Canadian singer (b. [[1951]])
 +
* [[June 19]] - [[El Fary]], Spanish singer (b. [[1937]])
 +
* [[June 19]] - [[Terry Hoeppner]], American football coach (b. [[1947]])
 +
* [[June 19]] - [[Antonio Aguilar]], Mexican singer and actor (b. [[1919]])
 +
* [[June 20]] - [[Trevor Henry]], New Zealand Justice (b. [[1902]])
 +
* [[June 21]] - [[Bob Evans (restaurateur)|Bob Evans]], American restaurateur (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[June 22]] - [[Nancy Benoit]], American professional wrestling manager (b. [[1964]])
 +
* [[June 22]] - [[Rod Beck]], American baseball player (b. [[1968]])
 +
* [[June 22]] - [[Erik Parlevliet]], Dutch field hockey player b. ([[1964]])
 +
* [[June 24]] - [[Derek Dougan]], Northern Irish footballer (b. [[1938]])
 +
* [[June 24]] - [[Chris Benoit]], Canadian professional wrestler (double-murder suicide) (b. [[1967]])
 +
* [[June 24]] - [[Jack Flynt]], American politician (b. [[1914]])
 +
* [[June 25]] - [[J. Fred Duckett]], American sports announcer and teacher (b. [[1933]])
 +
* [[June 25]] - [[Mahasti|Khadijeh Dadehbala (Mahasti)]], Iranian popular singer (b. [[1946]])
 +
* [[June 26]] - [[Jupp Derwall]], German footballer and coach (b. [[1927]])
 +
* [[June 26]] - [[Joey Sadler]], All Black rugby player (b. [[1914]])
 +
* [[June 27]] - [[Liz Claiborne (fashion designer)|Liz Claiborne]], Belgian-American fashion designer (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[June 27]] - [[William Hutt (actor)|William Hutt]], Canadian stage and film actor (b. [[1920]])
 +
* [[June 28]] - [[Kiichi Miyazawa]], 78th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1919]])
 +
* [[June 29]] - [[Joel Siegel]], American film critic (b. [[1943]])
 +
* [[June 29]] - [[George McCorkle]], Founder of The Marshall Tucker Band (b. [[1947]])
 +
* [[June 30]] - [[Jan Herman Linge]], Norwegian engineer and boat designer (b. [[1922]])
 +
 
 +
===July===
 +
[[Image:Beverly Sills by Van Vechten.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Beverly Sills]]]]
 +
* [[July 1]] - [[Gottfried von Bismarck]], German aristocrat and socialite (b. [[1962]])
 +
* [[July 2]] - [[Brahim Déby]], son of Chadian [[Heads of state of Chad|president]] [[Idriss Déby]] (b. [[1980]])
 +
* [[July 2]] - [[Vojislav Nikčević]], Montenegrin professor and linguist (b. [[1935]])
 +
* [[July 2]] - [[Beverly Sills]], American soprano (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[July 2]] - [[Dilip Sardesai]], Indian cricketer (b. [[1940]])
 +
* [[July 2]] - [[Jimmy Walker (basketball)|Jimmy Walker]], American basketball player (b. [[1944]])
 +
* [[July 2]] - [[Hy Zaret]], American lyricist and composer (b. [[1907]])
 +
* [[July 3]] - [[Claude Pompidou]], wife of President of France [[Georges Pompidou]] (b. [[1912]])
 +
* [[July 3]] - [[Boots Randolph]], American saxophone player (b. [[1927]])
 +
* [[July 4]] - [[Barış Akarsu]], Turkish musician (b.[[1979]])
 +
* [[July 4]] - [[José Roberto Espinosa]], Mexican commentator (b.[[1948]])
 +
* [[July 4]] - [[Liane Bahler]], German cyclist (b. [[1982]])
 +
* [[July 4]] - [[Johnny Frigo]], American jazz violinist and bassist (b.[[1916]])
 +
* [[July 4]] - [[Bill Pinkney]], American singer (b. [[1925]])
 +
* [[July 4]] - [[Osvaldo Romo]], Chilean agent of the [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet's]] Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (b. [[1938]])
 +
* [[July 5]] - [[George Melly]], English singer (b. [[1926]])
 +
[[Image:Lady Bird Johnson 1987.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Lady Bird Johnson]]]]
 +
* [[July 5]] - [[Régine Crespin]], French soprano (b. [[1927]])
 +
* [[July 6]] - [[Lois Wyse]], American advertising executive, author, and columnist (b. [[1926]])
 +
* [[July 9]] - [[Charles Lane (actor)|Charles Lane]], American actor (b. [[1905]])
 +
* [[July 10]] - [[Zheng Xiaoyu]], Chinese bureaucrat (b. [[1944]])
 +
* [[July 10]] - [[Abdul Rashid Ghazi]], Pakistani cleric (b. [[1964]])
 +
* [[July 10]] - [[Corbin Harney]], an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (b. [[1920]])
 +
* [[July 11]] - [[Lady Bird Johnson]], former [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1912]])
 +
* [[July 11]] - [[Alfonso López Michelsen]], 32nd Colombian President (b. [[1913]])
 +
* [[July 11]] - [[Ed Mirvish]], Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. [[1914]])
 +
* [[July 11]] - [[Shag Crawford]], American umpire in Major League Baseball (b. [[1916]])
 +
* [[July 11]] - [[Jimmy Skinner]], Detroit Red Wings head coach (b. [[1917]])
 +
[[Image:Tammy Faye.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Tammy Faye Messner]]]]
 +
* [[July 11]] - [[Richard Franklin (director)|Richard Franklin]], Australian film director (b. [[1948]])
 +
* [[July 12]] - [[Nigel Dempster]], British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist (b.[[1941]])
 +
* [[July 12]] - [[Pat Fordice]], First Lady of Mississippi from 1992 until 2000 (b. [[1935]])
 +
* [[July 12]] - [[Mitchell Brothers|Jim Mitchell]], pioneer in the pornographic film industry (b. [[1945]])
 +
* [[July 12]] - [[Larry Staverman]], American professional basketball player and coach (b. [[1936]])
 +
* [[July 12]] - [[Stan Zemanek]], Australian radio broadcaster (b. [[1947]])
 +
* [[July 12]] - [[Mr. Butch]], American homeless man living on the streets of Boston, also known as "King of Kenmore Square" (b. [[1951]])
 +
* [[July 14]] - [[John Ferguson, Sr.|John Ferguson]], Canadian professional hockey player, coach and executive (b. [[1938]])
 +
* [[July 19]] - [[A. K. Faezul Huq]], Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. [[1945]])
 +
* [[July 20]] - [[Tammy Faye Messner]], American evangelist (b. [[1942]])
 +
* [[July 22]] - [[Mike Coolbaugh]], American baseball player and coach (b. [[1972]])
 +
* [[July 22]] - [[László Kovács (cinematographer)|László Kovács]], Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. [[1933]])
 +
* [[July 22]] - [[Ulrich Mühe]], German actor (b. [[1953]])
 +
* [[July 22]] - [[Jean Stablinski]], French cyclist of Polish origin (b. [[1932]])
 +
* [[July 22]] - [[Rollie Stiles]], American baseball player (b. [[1906]])
 +
[[Image:Ingmar Bergman Smultronstallet.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Ingmar Bergman]]]]
 +
* [[July 22]] - [[Aleksandr Tatarskiy]], Russian animation film director (b. [[1950]])
 +
* [[July 22]] - [[Jarrod Cunningham]], New Zealand rugby player (b. [[1968]])
 +
* [[July 23]] - [[Benjamin Libet]], American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness (b. [[1916]])
 +
* [[July 23]] - [[Mohammed Zahir Shah]], last King of [[Afghanistan]] (b. [[1914]])
 +
* [[July 24]] - [[Albert Ellis]], American psychologist (b. [[1913]])
 +
* [[July 26]] - [[Skip Prosser]], American basketball coach (b. [[1950]])
 +
* [[July 27]] - [[James Oyebola]], British heavyweight boxer (b. [[1961]])
 +
* [[July 29]] - [[Mike Reid (entertainer)|Mike Reid]], British comedian and actor (b. [[1940]])
 +
* [[July 29]] - [[Tom Snyder]], American talk show host (b. [[1936]])
 +
* [[July 30]] - [[Michelangelo Antonioni]], Italian film director (b. [[1912]])
 +
* [[July 30]] - [[Teoctist Arăpaşu]], Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. [[1915]])
 +
* [[July 30]] - [[Ingmar Bergman]], Swedish film director (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[July 30]] - [[Bill Walsh (football coach)|Bill Walsh]], American football coach (b. [[1931]])
 +
 
 +
===August===
 +
* [[August 1]] - [[Tommy Makem]], Irish folk musician (b. [[1932]])
 +
* [[August 1]] - [[Ryan Cox]], South African professional road racing cyclist (b. [[1979]])
 +
* [[August 1]] - [[Veikko Karvonen]], Finnish athlete (b. [[1926]])
 +
* [[August 2]] - [[Holden Roberto]], Angolan nationalist leader (b. [[1923]])
 +
* [[August 2]] - [[Chauncey Bailey]], American columnist and newspaper editor (b. [[1949]])
 +
* [[August 3]] - [[James T. Callahan]], American actor (b. [[1930]])
 +
* [[August 3]] - [[John Gardner (thriller writer)|John Gardner]], British author (b. [[1926]])
 +
* [[August 4]] - [[Lee Hazlewood]], American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[August 4]] - [[Frank Mancuso]], American baseball player and politician (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[August 5]] - [[Oliver Hill]], American lawyer (b. [[1907]])
 +
* [[August 5]] - [[Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger]], French Cardinal Archbishop of Paris (b. [[1926]])
 +
* [[August 6]] - [[Heinz Barth]], German war criminal (b. [[1920]])
 +
* [[August 7]] - [[Hal Fishman]], Los Angeles–based local news anchor (b. [[1931]])
 +
* [[August 7]] - [[Ernesto Alonso]], Mexican soap opera actor, director and producer, best known as ''Señor Telenovela'' (b. [[1917]])
 +
* [[August 7]] - [[Angus Tait]], New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. [[1919]])
 +
* [[August 8]] - [[Joybubbles]], American Phone [[Phreak]] (b. [[1949]])
 +
* [[August 8]] - [[Ma Lik]], Chinese politician (b. [[1952]])
 +
[[Image:Max roach.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Max Roach]]]]
 +
* [[August 8]] - [[Melville Shavelson]], American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. [[1917]])
 +
* [[August 9]] - [[Joe O'Donnell]], American documentary photographer and photojournalist (b. [[1922]])
 +
* [[August 10]] - [[Tony Wilson]], English broadcaster, nightclub manager, and record label owner (b.[[1950]])
 +
* [[August 10]] - [[James Faust]], an [[Apostle (Mormonism)|Apostle]] in the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1920]])
 +
* [[August 12]] - [[Merv Griffin]], American TV personality (b. [[1925]])
 +
* [[August 13]] - [[Brooke Astor]], American socialite and philanthropist (b. [[1902]])
 +
* [[August 13]] - [[Phil Rizzuto]], American baseball player and announcer (b. [[1917]])
 +
* [[August 13]] - [[Brian Adams (wrestler)|Brian Adams]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1964]])
 +
* [[August 14]] - [[Tikhon Khrennikov]], Russian composer (b. [[1913]])
 +
* [[August 15]] - [[Richard Bradshaw]], British opera conductor (b. [[1944]])
 +
* [[August 15]] - [[John Gofman]], American [[Manhattan Project]] scientist and advocate (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[August 15]] - [[Sam Pollock]], Canadian sports executive (b. [[1925]])
 +
* [[August 16]] - [[Max Roach]], American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[August 17]] - [[Eddie Griffin (basketball)|Eddie Griffin]], American basketball player (b. [[1982]])
 +
* [[August 18]] - [[Michael Deaver]], American political adviser (b. [[1938]])
 +
* [[August 20]] - [[Leona Helmsley]], American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. [[1920]])
 +
[[Image:Antonio Puerta2.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Antonio Puerta]]]]
 +
* [[August 21]] - [[Elizabeth P. Hoisington]], American brigadier general (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[August 21]] - [[Qurratulain Hyder]], Indian novelist (b. [[1926]])
 +
* [[August 24]] - [[Abdul Rahman Arif]], 4th [[President of Iraq]] (b. [[1916]])
 +
* [[August 25]] - [[Raymond Barre]], French politician and economist (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[August 25]] - [[Ray Jones]], English footballer (b. [[1988]])
 +
* [[August 26]] - [[Gaston Thorn]], Luxembourger politician (b. [[1928]])
 +
* [[August 28]] - [[Antonio Puerta]], Spanish footballer (b. [[1984]])
 +
* [[August 28]] - [[Francisco Umbral]], Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. [[1935]])
 +
* [[August 28]] - [[Miyoshi Umeki]], Japanese actress (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[August 28]] - [[Nikola Nobilo]], New Zealand winemaker (b. [[1913]])
 +
* [[August 29]] - [[Richard Jewell]], American falsely accused of bombing the [[Centennial Olympic Park bombing|Centennial Olympic Park]] (b. [[1962]])
 +
* [[August 29]] - [[Pierre Messmer]], French politician (b. [[1916]])
 +
* [[August 29]] - [[Chaswe Nsofwa]], Zambian footballer (b. [[1978]])
 +
* [[August 29]] - [[James Muir Cameron Fletcher]], New Zealand industrialist (b. [[1914]])
 +
* [[August 30]] - [[Michael Jackson (writer)|Michael Jackson]], English writer (b. [[1942]])
 +
* [[August 30]] - [[Charles Vanik]], American politician (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[August 31]] - [[Gay Brewer]], American golfer (b. [[1932]])
 +
 
 +
===September===
 +
* [[September 1]] - [[Tomás Medina Caracas]], Colombian rebel leader (b. [[1965]])
 +
* [[September 1]] - [[Roy McKenzie]], New Zealand philanthropist (b. [[1922]])
 +
* [[September 2]] - [[Max McNab]], Canadian hockey player and hockey executive (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[September 3]] - [[Jane Tomlinson]], British charity fund raiser (b. [[1964]])
 +
* [[September 3]] - [[Syd Jackson (New Zealand)|Syd Jackson]], Māori activist and trade unionist (b. [[1939]])
 +
[[Image:Luciano Pavarotti 15.06.02 cropped.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Luciano Pavarotti]]]]
 +
* [[September 5]] - [[Jennifer Dunn]], American politician (b. [[1941]])
 +
* [[September 5]] - [[Paul Gillmor]], American politician (b. [[1939]])
 +
* [[September 5]] - [[D. James Kennedy]], American evangelist (b. [[1930]])
 +
* [[September 6]] - [[Madeleine L'Engle]], American author (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[September 6]] - [[Luciano Pavarotti]], Italian tenor (b. [[1935]])
 +
* [[September 7]] - [[Mark Weil]], Uzbek theater director (b. [[1952]])
 +
* [[September 8]] - [[Charlie Parlato]], American musician (b. [[1919]])
 +
* [[September 9]] - [[Helmut Senekowitsch]], Austrian footballer and coach (b. [[1933]])
 +
* [[September 10]] - [[Anita Roddick]], English entrepreneur (b. [[1942]])
 +
* [[September 10]] - [[Jane Wyman]], American actress, former wife of [[Ronald Reagan]] (b. [[1917]])
 +
* [[September 11]] - [[Ian Porterfield]], Scottish footballer (b. [[1946]])
 +
* [[September 11]] - [[Joe Zawinul]], Austrian musician (b. [[1932]])
 +
* [[September 13]] - [[Whakahuihui Vercoe]], New Zealand clergyman (b. [[1928]])
 +
[[Image:Jane Wyman in Stage Fright trailer.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Jane Wyman]]]]
 +
* [[September 14]] - [[Benny Vansteelant]], Belgian duathlete (b. [[1976]])
 +
* [[September 15]] - [[Colin McRae]], Scottish world rally champion  (b. [[1968]])
 +
* [[September 15]] - [[Aldemaro Romero]], Venezuelan musician (b. [[1928]])
 +
* [[September 15]] - [[Brett Somers]], American actress (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[September 16]] - [[Robert Jordan]], American author (b. [[1948]])
 +
* [[September 19]] - [[Antoine Ghanem]], Lebanese politician (b. [[1943]])
 +
* [[September 20]] - [[Mahlon Clark]], American musician (b. [[1923]])
 +
* [[September 21]] - [[Hallgeir Brenden]], Norwegian athlete (b. [[1929]])
 +
[[Image:Marcel Marceau.gif|120px|thumb|[[Marcel Marceau]]]]
 +
* [[September 21]] - [[Alice Ghostley]], American actress (b. [[1926]])
 +
* [[September 21]] - [[Rex Humbard]], American evangelist (b. [[1919]])
 +
* [[September 21]] - [[Petar Stambolić]], Serbian politician (b. [[1912]])
 +
* [[September 22]] - [[Marcel Marceau]], French mime artist (b. [[1923]])
 +
* [[September 23]] - [[Ken Danby]], Canadian artist (b. [[1940]])
 +
* [[September 26]] - [[Bill Wirtz]], American businessman (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[September 27]] - [[Bill Perry (footballer)|Bill Perry]], South African footballer, scored winning goal in the 1953 FA Cup Final (b. [[1930]])
 +
* [[September 27]] - [[Avraham Shapira]], Israeli [[Chief Rabbi|chief rabbi]] (b. [[1914]])
 +
* [[September 27]] - [[Kenji Nagai]], Japanese journalist (b. [[1957]])
 +
* [[September 28]] - [[Wally Parks]], American founder of the [[National Hot Rod Association]] (b. [[1913]])
 +
* [[September 29]] - [[Lois Maxwell]], Canadian actress (b. [[1927]])
 +
* [[September 30]] - [[Milan Jelić]], Bosnian-Serb politician (b. [[1956]])
 +
 
 +
===October===
 +
* [[October 1]] - [[Chris Mainwaring]], Australian rules football player (b. [[1966]])
 +
* [[October 1]] - [[Al Oerter]], American athlete (b. [[1936]])
 +
* [[October 1]] - [[Ned Sherrin]], English broadcaster and theatre director (b. [[1931]])
 +
* [[October 2]] - [[Dan Keating]], Irish [[Irish republicanism|republican]] (b. [[1902]])
 +
* [[October 3]] - [[Tony Ryan]], Irish businessman (b. [[1936]])
 +
* [[October 4]] - [[Antonie Iorgovan]], Romanian jurist, professor, and politician (b. [[1948]])
 +
* [[October 5]] - [[Justin Tuveri]], Italian veteran of [[World War I]] (b. [[1898]])
 +
* [[October 6]] - [[Jo Ann Davis]], American politician (b. [[1950]])
 +
* [[October 7]] - [[Norifumi Abe]], Japanese motorcycle road racer (b. [[1975]])
 +
* [[October 7]] - [[Luciana Frassati Gawronska]], [[Italy|Italian author]] (b. [[1902]]
 +
* [[October 8]] - [[Constantine Andreou]], Greek painter and sculptor (b. [[1917]])
 +
* [[October 11]] - [[Sri Chinmoy]], Indian philosopher (b. [[1931]])
 +
[[Image:Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember trailer.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Deborah Kerr]]]]
 +
* [[October 12]] - [[Soe Win]], Burmese politician (b. [[1948]])
 +
* [[October 12]] - [[Kisho Kurokawa]], Japanese architect (b. [[1934]])
 +
* [[October 13]] - [[Bob Denard]], French mercenary (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[October 16]] - [[Deborah Kerr]], Scottish actress (b. [[1921]])
 +
* [[October 16]] - [[Rosalio José Castillo Lara]], Venezuelan [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] (b. [[1922]])
 +
* [[October 16]] - [[Toše Proeski]], Macedonian singer (b. [[1981]])
 +
* [[October 16]] - [[Barbara West]], 2nd to last living survivor of the [[RMS Titanic|Titanic]] sinking (b. [[1911]])
 +
* [[October 17]] - [[Joey Bishop]], American entertainer (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[October 17]] - [[Teresa Brewer]], American singer (b. [[1931]])
 +
* [[October 18]] - [[Alan Coren]], English columnist (b. [[1939]])
 +
* [[October 18]] - [[William J. Crowe]], American military commander and ambassador (b. [[1925]])
 +
* [[October 18]] - [[Lucky Dube]], South African musician (b. [[1964]])
 +
* [[October 19]] - [[Randall Forsberg]], American nuclear freeze advocate (b. [[1943]])
 +
* [[October 19]] - [[Jan Wolkers]], Dutch author, sculptor and painter (b. [[1925]])
 +
[[Image:Porter wagoner 1999.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Porter Wagoner]]]]
 +
* [[October 20]] - [[Max McGee]], American football player (b. [[1932]])
 +
* [[October 22]] - [[Ève Curie]], French author, daughter of Pierre and [[Marie Curie]] (b. [[1904]])
 +
* [[October 23]] - [[Lim Goh Tong]], Malaysian Chinese businessman (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[October 24]] - [[Petr Eben]], Czech composer (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[October 24]] - [[Ian Middleton]], New Zealand novelist (b. [[1928]])
 +
* [[October 26]] - [[Nicolae Dobrin]], Romanian footballer (b. [[1947]])
 +
* [[October 26]] - [[Friedman Paul Erhardt]], German American pioneering television chef (b. [[1943]])
 +
* [[October 26]] - [[Arthur Kornberg]], American biochemist (b. [[1918]])
 +
* [[October 26]] - [[Khun Sa]], Burmese warlord (b. [[1934]])
 +
* [[October 28]] - [[Porter Wagoner]], American country singer (b. [[1927]])
 +
* [[October 30]] - [[Robert Goulet]], American entertainer (b. [[1933]])
 +
 
 +
===November===
 +
* [[November 1]] - [[Paul Tibbets]], American general, pilot of the [[Enola Gay]] (b. [[1915]])
 +
* [[November 2]] - [[Charmaine Dragun]], Australian news anchor (b. [[1978]])
 +
* [[November 2]] - [[S. P. Thamilselvan]], [[Sri Lanka|Sri Lankan]] [[Tamil people|Tamil]] political leader (b. [[1967]])
 +
[[Image:Normanmailer.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Norman Mailer]]]]
 +
* [[November 2]] - [[Igor Moiseyev]], Russian choreographer (b. [[1906]])
 +
* [[November 2]] - [[Lillian Ellison]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1923]])
 +
* [[November 3]] - [[Martin Meehan (Irish republican)|Martin Meehan]], Irish republican (b. [[1945]])
 +
* [[November 3]] - [[Ryan Shay]], American runner (b. [[1979]])
 +
* [[November 5]] - [[Nils Liedholm]], Swedish footballer and coach (b. [[1922]])
 +
* [[November 6]] - [[Enzo Biagi]], Italian journalist (b. [[1920]])
 +
* [[November 7]] - [[Hilda Braid]], English actress (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[November 8]] - [[Chad Varah]], English Anglican priest, founder of the [[Samaritans (charity)| Samaritans ]] (b. [[1911]])
 +
* [[November 8]] - [[Dulce Saguisag]], Filipino politician (b. [[1943]])
 +
* [[November 9]] - [[Luis Herrera Campins]], 56th [[President of Venezuela]] (b. [[1925]])
 +
* [[November 10]] - [[Laraine Day]], American actress (b. [[1920]])
 +
* [[November 10]] - [[Augustus F. Hawkins]], American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. [[1907]])
 +
* [[November 10]] - [[Norman Mailer]], American writer (b. [[1923]])
 +
[[Image:Quietriot.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Kevin DuBrow]]]]
 +
* [[November 12]] - [[Ira Levin]], American novelist (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[November 13]] - [[John Doherty (footballer)|John Doherty]], English footballer (b. [[1935]])
 +
* [[November 13]] - [[Kazuhisa Inao]], Japanese baseball player (b. [[1937]])
 +
* [[November 13]] - [[Wahab Akbar]], Filipino politician (b. [[1960]])
 +
* [[November 15]] - [[Joe Nuxhall]], American baseball player and announcer (b. [[1928]])
 +
* [[November 16]] - [[Trond Kirkvaag]], Norwegian comedian and author (b. [[1946]])
 +
* [[November 19]] - [[Dick Wilson]], American actor (b. [[1916]])
 +
[[Image:At Home With Evel Knievel.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Evel Knievel]]]]
 +
* [[November 20]] - [[Ian Smith]], [[Prime Minister of Rhodesia]] (b. [[1919]])
 +
* [[November 21]] - [[Fernando Fernán Gómez]], Spanish actor, director, and playwright (b. [[1921]])
 +
* [[November 21]] - [[Tom Johnson (ice hockey)|Tom Johnson]], Canadian sports executive and hockey player (b. [[1928]])
 +
* [[November 22]] - [[Verity Lambert]], English producer (b. [[1935]])
 +
* [[November 23]] - [[Joe Kennedy (baseball player)|Joe Kennedy]], American baseball player (b. [[1979]])
 +
* [[November 23]] - [[Vladimir Kryuchkov]], Russian Soviet-era bureaucrat (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[November 24]] - [[Casey Calvert]], American musician ([[Hawthorne Heights]]) (b. [[1981]])
 +
* [[November 25]] - [[Kevin DuBrow]], American musician ([[Quiet Riot]]) (b. [[1955]])
 +
* [[November 27]] - [[Sean Taylor]], American football player (b. [[1983]])
 +
* [[November 27]] - [[Robert Cade]], American physician and inventor of the beverage [[Gatorade]] (b. [[1927]])
 +
* [[November 28]] - [[Elly Beinhorn]], German pilot (b. [[1907]])
 +
* [[November 29]] - [[Henry Hyde]], American politician (b. [[1924]])
 +
* [[November 29]] - [[Roger Bonham Smith]], American businessman (b. [[1925]])
 +
* [[November 30]] - [[Evel Knievel]], American motorcycle daredevil (b. [[1938]])
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 +
===December===
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* [[December 1]] - [[Ken McGregor]], Australian tennis player (b. [[1929]])
 +
* [[December 2]] - [[Robert O. Anderson]], American businessman (b. [[1917]])
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* [[December 2]] - [[Elizabeth Hardwick]], American literary critic and novelist (b. [[1916]])
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* [[December 2]] - [[Les Shannon]], English footballer and manager (b. [[1926]])
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* [[December 2]] - [[Thomas Torrance]], Scottish Protestant theologian (b. [[1913]])
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* [[December 4]] - [[Pimp C]], American rapper (b. [[1973]])
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[[Image:Iketurner1997.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Ike Turner]]]]
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* [[December 4]] - [[Norval Morrisseau]], Canadian artist (b. [[1932]])
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* [[December 4]] - [[Chip Reese]], American professional gambler (b. [[1951]])
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* [[December 5]] - [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], German composer (b. [[1928]])
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* [[December 5]] - [[Andrew Imbrie]], American composer (b. [[1921]])
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* [[December 6]] - [[Katy French]], Irish model (b. [[1983]])
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* [[December 9]] - [[Thore Skogman]], Swedish entertainer (b. [[1931]])
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* [[December 9]] - [[Abdullah Qureshi]], Pakistani activist (b. [[1935]])
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* [[December 10]] - [[Ashleigh Aston Moore]], actress (b. [[1981]])
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* [[December 11]] - [[Nicholas Kao Se Tseien]], Chinese Catholic priest (b. [[1897]])
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* [[December 11]] - [[Ottomar Pinto]], Brazilian politician (b. [[1931]])
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* [[December 12]] - [[Ike Turner]], American musician (b. [[1931]])
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* [[December 15]] - [[Julia Carson]], American politician (b. [[1938]])
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* [[December 15]] - [[Ace Vergel]], Filipino actor (b. [[1952]])
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* [[December 16]] - [[Dan Fogelberg]], American singer and songwriter (b. [[1951]])
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* [[December 18]] - [[Bill Strauss]], American satirist, author and historian (b. [[1947]])
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* [[December 20]] - [[Arabella Churchill (charity founder)|Arabella Spencer-Churchill]], English philanthropist (b. [[1949]])
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* [[December 22]] - [[Archbishop Chrysostomos I|Chrysostomos I]], Archbishop of Cyprus (b. [[1927]])
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* [[December 22]] - [[Julien Gracq]], French writer (b. [[1910]])
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* [[December 22]] - [[Andrew Glyn]], English economist (b. [[1943]])
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[[Image:Benazir Bhutto.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Benazir Bhutto]]]]
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* [[December 23]] - [[Michael Kidd]], American choreographer (b. [[1915]])
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* [[December 23]] - [[Oscar Peterson]], Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. [[1925]])
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* [[December 24]] - [[Akbar Radi]],  Iranian dramatist and playwright (b. [[1939]])
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* [[December 26]] - [[Joe Dolan]], Irish singer (b. [[1939]])
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* [[December 26]] - [[Stu Nahan]], American sportscaster (b. [[1926]])
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* [[December 27]] - [[Benazir Bhutto]], Pakistani politician (b. [[1953]])
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* [[December 27]] - [[Jaan Kross]], Estonian writer (b. [[1920]])
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* [[December 27]] - [[Jerzy Kawalerowicz]], Polish film director (b. [[1922]])
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* [[December 27]] - [[Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza‎]], a claimant to the Brazilian throne (b. [[1913]])
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* [[December 28]] - [[Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami]], Iranian basketball player (b. [[1982]])
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* [[December 29]] - [[Kevin Greening]], Former BBC Radio 1 DJ (b. [[1962]])
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* [[December 29]] - [[Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar]], Yemeni political and tribal leader (b. [[1933]])
 +
* [[December 29]] - [[Phil O'Donnell (footballer)|Phil O'Donnell]], Scottish footballer (b. [[1972]])
 +
* [[December 31]] - [[Ettore Sottsass]], Italian architect (b. [[1917]])
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== Nobel Prizes ==
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* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Gerhard Ertl]]
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* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] - [[Leonid Hurwicz]], [[Eric Maskin]], [[Roger Myerson]]
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* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]]  - [[Doris Lessing]]
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* [[Nobel Prize for Peace|Peace]]  - [[Al Gore|Albert Gore, Jr]], and the [[United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]]
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* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Albert Fert]], [[Peter Grünberg]]
 +
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Mario Capecchi]], [[Oliver Smithies]], Sir [[Martin Evans]]
 +
 
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==Holidays==
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* [[January 1]] - [[New Year's Day]].
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* [[January 26]] - [[Australia Day]]. [[India]] Republic Day.
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* [[February 6]] - [[Waitangi Day]] in [[New Zealand]].
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* [[February 12]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Chile]].
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* [[February 19]] - [[Presidents' Day]] in the [[United States]].
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* [[February 20]] - [[Mardi Gras Day]].
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* [[February 21]] - Western [[Christianity]]: [[Ash Wednesday]] and start of [[Lent]].
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* [[March 1]] - [[Saint David's Day]]
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* [[March 17]] - [[Saint Patrick's Day]].
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* [[March 19]] - Feast of [[Saint Joseph]] in Christianity. In Judaism, start of the month of [[Nisan]].
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* [[March 21]] - [[Norouz]], [[Iran]]ian and [[Bahá'í Faith|Bahá'í]] New Year.
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* [[April 2]] - In [[Judaism]], 14/15 Nisan. [[Passover]] [[Passover Seder|Seder]].
 +
* [[April 6]] - [[Good Friday]] in the Western Christian and Eastern Orthodox calendars.
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* [[April 8]] - [[Easter]] (Western Christianity and Eastern Orthodoxy).
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* [[April 10]] - End of [[Passover]] or Feast of Unleavened Bread.
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* [[April 18]] - Zimbabwe independence from Britain
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* [[April 22]] - [[Earth Day]].
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* [[April 23]] - [[St George's Day|Saint George's Day]].
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* [[April 23]] - [[Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel|Israeli Independence]] Day (Iyar 5) in the [[Hebrew calendar]].
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* [[April 25]] - [[ANZAC Day]] in [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]].
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* [[April 25]] - Liberation of [[Italy]] Day.
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* [[April 27]] - [[Arbor Day]] in the USA.
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* [[April 30]] - [[Koninginnedag]] (''Queen's Day'', in Dutch) - National Holiday in [[The Netherlands]].
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* [[May 1]] - [[Beltane]], a [[cross-quarter day]]. Also [[Labor Day]] in most of the world, but not in the [[USA]] and [[Canada]]. [[May Day]].
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* [[May 5]] - [[Cinco de Mayo]], celebrating the [[Battle of Puebla]], in [[Mexico]] and the USA.
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* [[May 18]] - Somaliland Independence from Somalia.
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* [[May 21]] - [[Victoria Day]] in Canada.
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* [[May 23]] - [[Shavuot]] or [[Pentecost]] in the Jewish religion.
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* [[May 28]] - [[Memorial Day]] in the [[USA]].
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* [[June 1]] - Foundation Day [[Western Australia]], [[Australia]]
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* [[June 2]] - [[Republic Day]] in [[Italy]]
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* [[June 7]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Norway]]
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* [[June 12]] - Independence Day in the [[Philippines]].
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* [[June 14]] - [[Flag Day]] in the [[USA]].
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* [[June 17]] - [[Iceland]]'s [[Independence Day]].
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* [[June 26]] - Somaliland Independence From UK.
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* [[July 1]] - [[Canada Day]].
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* [[July 4]] - [[Independence Day (United States)|Independence Day]] in the [[USA]].
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* [[July 5]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Venezuela]].
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* [[July 9]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Argentina]].
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* [[July 14]] - [[Bastille Day]].
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* [[July 20]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Colombia]].
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* [[July 24]] - Birthday of [[Simon Bolivar]] observed in [[Venezuela]], [[Colombia]], and [[Ecuador]]. [[Pioneer Day (Utah)|Pioneer Day]] observed in [[Utah]].
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* [[July 28]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Peru]].
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* [[August 1]] - [[Lammas]], "Loaf Mass," a Cross-quarter day,  [[Switzerland|Swiss]] National Day.
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* [[August 6]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Jamaica]].
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* [[August 9]] - [[National Day]] in [[Singapore]].
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* [[August 14]] - [[Pakistan]] [[Independence Day]].
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* [[August 15]] - [[India]] [[Independence Day]].
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* [[August 17]] - [[Indonesia]] [[Independence Day]].
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* [[August 20]] - [[Stephen I of Hungary|St. Stephen]]'s day, the main national holiday in [[Hungary]].
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* [[August 28]] - [[India]] [[Raksha Bandhan|Raksha Bhandhan]].
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* [[August 31]] - [[National Day]] in [[Malaysia]].
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* [[September 3]] - [[Labour Day]] in [[Canada]] and the [[USA]].
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* [[September 7]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Brazil]].
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* [[September 11]] - [[National Day]] in [[Catalonia]].
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* [[September 12]]-[[September 14]] - [[Rosh Hashana]] begins at sunset: New Year 5768 in the [[Hebrew Calendar]].
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* [[September 13]] - [[Ramadan]] begins for the religion of [[Islam]].
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* [[September 16]] - [[Mexico]] [[Independence Day]].
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* [[September 18]] - [[Chile]] [[Independence Day]].
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* [[September 21]] - [[Yom Kippur]] or ''Yom ha-kippurim'', the Day of Atonement in the Jewish faith, begins at sunset, and continues until after sunset.
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* [[September 21]] - [[Malta]] [[Independence Day]]
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* [[September 22]] - [[Belize]] Independence Day.
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* [[September 23]] - National Day of [[Kingdom of Saudi Arabia]]
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* [[September 27]] - [[Sukot]] or [[Tabernacles]] in [[Judaism]].
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* [[October 1]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Nigeria]].
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* [[October 2]] - [[Gandhi Jayanti]] in [[India]].
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* [[October 8]] - [[Thanksgiving]] in [[Canada]]. [[Columbus Day]] in the USA this year.
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* [[October 8]] - [[Battle of Angamos]] Day in [[Peru]].
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* [[October 12]] - [[Columbus Day]] in Central and South America.
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* [[October 23]] - [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]] Anniversary in [[Hungary]]
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* [[October 31]] - [[All Hallows' Eve]], [[Halloween]].
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* [[November 1]] - [[All Saints' Day]]. [[Samhain]], a cross-quarter day. [[Neopagan]] New Year's Day.
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* [[November 9]] - [[Diwali]] festival in [[India]].
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* [[November 11]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Poland]].
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* [[November 22]] - [[Thanksgiving]] in the USA.
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* [[November 30]] - [[St. Andrew's Day|Saint Andrew's Day]]
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* [[December 1]] - National Day in [[Romania]]
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* [[December 6]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Finland]].
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* [[December 11]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[South Africa]]
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* [[December 19]] - [[Eid ul-Adha]] in [[Islam|Muslim]] countries.
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* [[December 22]] - [[Winter Solstice]] Winter festival/holiday for those of Pagan faiths.
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* [[December 23]] - [[Festivus]] Winter festival/holiday for the rest of the general population.
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* [[December 24]] - [[Christmas Eve]] People get ready for Christmas
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* [[December 25]] - [[Christmas]] in Western [[Christianity]].
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* [[December 26]] - [[Boxing Day]] in most [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries.
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* [[December 31]] - [[New Year's Eve]]
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===Unknown dates===
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{{Events by month}}
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*The [[Republic of Ireland]] is expected to hold a [[30th Irish general election|general election]].
 
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* [[India]]'s [[Five-Year Plans of India|10th Five Year Plan]] comes to an end.
 
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* [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]]' [[orbit]] will be positioned such that the [[Sun]] shines directly above its [[equator]].
 
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* The [[Channel Tunnel Rail Link]] from London to the [[Channel Tunnel]] is expected to be completed.
 
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* [[Palm Islands#The Palm, Jebel Ali|The Palm, Jebel Ali]], part of the [[Palm Islands]] development in [[Dubai]], [[United Arab Emirates]] is expected to be completed.
 
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* The [[Andean Community]] and [[Mercosur]] will fully integrate into the [[South American Community of Nations]].
 
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* A [[Elections in Kenya|presidential election]] will take place in [[Kenya]].
 
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* A [[Elections_in_South_Korea|presidential election]] will take place in [[South Korea]].
 
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* A [[Australian legislative election, 2007|legislative election]] will almost certainly take place in [[Australia]].
 
  
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==Fiction==
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==References==
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{{reflist}}
  
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===Books===
 
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* ''[[The Forever War]]'' (1975): some events take place in 2007
 
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* ''[[The Puppet Masters]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] (1951): Events take place in 2007, beginning on [[July 12]].
 
  
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==External links==
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* ''[[Act of War: Direct Action]] (2005): Events take place in 2007
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* [http://www.accuracyproject.org/2007calendar.html 2007 Calendar] at Internet Accuracy Project
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* ''[[Battlefield 2]]'' (2005): events take place in 2007
 
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* ''[[Half-Life 2: Episode Two]]'' (2006): Events take place in 2007
 
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* ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'': [[Doctor Light (Mega Man)|Dr. Thomas Light]] is awarded the [[Nobel Prize]] for the creation of the [[Robot Master]].
 
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* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' (2001): [[Solid Snake]] boards a vessel in [[New York City]] on [[August 8]] to photograph one [[Metal Gear (weapon)|Metal Gear]].
 
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* ''[[Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2]]'' (2004): The second [[Korean War]] begins.
 
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* ''[[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield]]'' (2003): Events take place in 2007
 
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* ''[[Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory]]'' (2005): Events take place in summer 2007
 
  
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===Films===
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[[Category:2007| ]]
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* ''[[Click (film)|Click]]'' (2006): Michael Newman (played by [[Adam Sandler]]) unwillingly "[[fast forward]]s" himself to 2007, when his next promotion occurs.
 
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* ''[[Death of a President]]'' (2006): [[President of the United States|United States President]] [[George W. Bush]] is assassinated on [[October 19]].
 
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* ''[[The Jacket]]'' (2005): Events take place in 2007.
 
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* ''[[Paycheck (film)|Paycheck]]'' (2003): Events take place in 2007
 
  
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* ''[[Dead Ernest]]'' (1980): Ernest (played by [[Andrew Sachs]]), is scheduled to die by [[God]] in 2007, in bed in [[Lyme Regis]], [[Dorset]], [[England]].
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': The episodes ''[[School Reunion (Doctor Who)|School Reunion]]'', ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' and ''[[The Age of Steel]]'' (aired 2006) take place between [[January 30]] and [[February 2]], the latter two in an alternate reality. ''[[Army of Ghosts]]'' and ''[[Doomsday (Doctor Who)|Doomsday]]'' likely take place later this year.
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* ''[[Macross Zero]]'' (2002): The [[VF-0]] [[variable fighter]] is tested and events take place in 2007.
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* ''[[Odyssey 5]]'' (2002): Earth is destroyed on [[August 7]]. The consciousness of the surviving crew of the Space Shuttle ''Odyssey'' are sent back in time by a being known as The Seeker to prevent the destruction.
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Template:Year nav Template:C21YearInTopic Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The year 2007 was designated:

Also see: Wikipedia's almanac of events for this year.

UNESCO has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.[6]

Events of 2007

January

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Nancy Pelosi
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Hurricane Kyrill creates havoc as it passes across northern Europe.

February

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March

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April

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United States President George W. Bush with Virginia Tech Student Government Association President James Tyger after his speech at the school's convocation.

May

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Nicolas Sarkozy

June

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Launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis
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Gordon Brown

July

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Opening ceremony of the second Tacoma Narrows Bridge
  • July 15 - In Tacoma, Washington, the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens to traffic, making it the longest twin suspension bridge in the world.
  • July 16 - Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and release about 300 gallons of radioactive water.
  • July 16 - Britain expels four Russian diplomats in response to a refusal by the Russians to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, suspected to be behind the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko in London.
  • July 17 - TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 overruns the runway of Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport and crashes, killing all 186 and others on the ground.
  • July 17 - Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and three other men on charges related to their alleged operation of a dogfighting ring based at one of Vick's properties in southeastern Virginia. Vick was later suspended indefinitely in August by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and is now serving his sentence of 23 months in federal prison.
  • July 18 - Nelson Mandela convenes a group of world leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems as he turns 89.
  • July 18 - At the height of rush hour in New York City a major steam pipe bursts, releasing millions of gallons of boiling water and super heated steam. Only one fatality occurred; a pedestrian who went into cardiac arrest.
  • July 19 - Ol Doinyo Lengai mountain erupts, bringing a stop to the daily week long tremors experienced in Nairobi and Northern Tanzania.
  • July 19 - Russia expels four British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of four of Russia's diplomats. Russia also refuses to cooperate with Britain over the war on terror.
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Pratibha Patil

August

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I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapse.
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Rapidfire – NASA image of the Greek wildfires, taken on 25 August.

September

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Myanmar protests

October

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Flames burn Santa Clarita, California during the California wildfires of October 2007.
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Donald Tusk
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

November

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Kevin Rudd
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Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Annapolis Conference.

December

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Lee Myung-bak

Ongoing

Births

Deaths

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January

February

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Anna Nicole Smith
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Bruce Bennett
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

March

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Jean Baudrillard
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Betty Hutton

April

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Kitty Carlisle Hart
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Boris Yeltsin
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Mstislav Rostropovich

May

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Wally Schirra
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Jerry Falwell

June

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Craig L. Thomas

July

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Beverly Sills
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Lady Bird Johnson
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Tammy Faye Messner
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Ingmar Bergman

August

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Max Roach
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Antonio Puerta

September

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Luciano Pavarotti
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Jane Wyman
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Marcel Marceau

October

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Deborah Kerr
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Porter Wagoner

November

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Norman Mailer
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Kevin DuBrow
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Evel Knievel

December

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Ike Turner
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Benazir Bhutto

Nobel Prizes

Holidays


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References

  1. ^ UNESCO names 2007 ‘Year of Rumi’ (Daily Times)
  2. ^ International Polar Year website
  3. ^ International Heliophysical Year website
  4. ^ European Year of Equal Opportunities for All website
  5. ^ Year of the Dolphin website
  6. ^ Celebration of anniversaries with which UNESCO will be associated in 2006–2007
  7. ^ http://english.kbs.co.kr/news/newsview_sub.php?menu=1&key=2007021324
  8. ^ http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm
  9. ^ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/25/politics/main2726626.shtml
  10. ^ http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=768929
  11. ^ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Researchers Find 2,100 Year Old Melon". Yahoo News. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
  12. ^ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Report: U.S. hits militants' Somali base". Yahoo News. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
  13. ^ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"4 charged with terror plot at JFK airport, official says". CNN News. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
  14. ^ Russian GEO, N10, 2007, p. 167
  15. ^ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"2 charged in Laotian overthrow plot". Yahoo News. Retrieved 2007-06-04. Text "Author: Don Thompson" ignored (help)
  16. ^ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"10 charged with alleged Laos plot". CNN. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
  17. ^ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Mass Holocaust grave found in Ukraine". Yahoo News. Retrieved 2007-06-05.
  18. ^ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Nine dead, thousands told to flee floodwaters" (html). 2007-06-11. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
  19. ^ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Australian storms beach freighter" (html). BBC. 2007-06-08. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
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  22. ^ Spiegel:Internetverbindung nach Burma gekappt (German)
  23. ^ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Vatican beatifies 498 Spanish martyrs". Yahoo News. Retrieved 2007-10-28.
  24. ^ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Army deployed after Calcutta riot".


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