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This article is about the year 2007. For the album, see
2007 (album).
Clockwise from top-left:
Steve Jobs unveils
Apple's first
iPhone ;
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a
filling station , killing almost 200 people; former Pakistani
Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto is
assassinated ; 2007 marked the beginning of the
Subprime mortgage crisis in the
United States ; a
surge of troops is sent to fight in the
Iraq War ; the
Virginia Tech community mourns the victims of the
Virginia Tech shooting , in which 32 students were killed;
Google Street View is unveiled to the world; the
Treaty of Lisbon is signed by member states of the
European Union
Calendar year
2007 (
MMVII ) was a
common year starting on Monday of the
Gregorian calendar , the 2007th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the
3rd millennium and the
21st century , and the 8th year of the
2000s decade.
Calendar year
2007 was designated as the
International Heliophysical Year
[1] and the
International Polar Year .
[2]
Events
January
February
March
March 1 – The fourth
International Polar Year , a $1.73 billion research program to study both the
North Pole and
South Pole , is launched in Paris.
[14]
March 3 – A
total lunar eclipse occurs and is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. It is the 52nd lunar eclipse of
Lunar Saros series 123 occurring at the moon's descending node. The moon is just 3.2 days before apogee, making it fairly small.
March 4 – The
First Ivorian Civil War ends with a peace agreement.
March 11 – According to an accusation
[15] by
Georgia ,
three Russian helicopters fire on the Georgian-controlled
[16]
Kodori Gorge in a break-away autonomous republic of
Abkhazia in north-western Georgia.
March 13 –
April 28 – The
2007 Cricket World Cup is held in the
West Indies and is won by
Australia .
[17]
March 19 – The
first solar eclipse of the year 2007 is a partial solar eclipse occurring just 0.7 days before perigee, making it very large. The Moon covers 87.558% of the Sun. In this partial solar eclipse, the best visibility occurs at 61º02'55" N, 55º28'04" E. It is the 20th solar eclipse of
Solar Saros series 149 , at ascending node. The Sun is its zenith just 83 km south of the Equator, so the Northern Hemisphere was in winter and the Southern Hemisphere was in summer on March 19, 2007.
March 23 – Naval forces of
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
arrest Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters;
[18] they were released on April 4.
[19]
March 27 –
Latvian Prime Minister
Aigars Kalvītis and
Russian Prime Minister
Mikhail Fradkov sign a border treaty between
Latvia and Russia, officially demarcating the
border between the two .
[20]
April
May
May 5 –
Kenya Airways Flight 507 , on a scheduled passenger flight from
Doula, Cameroon , to
Nairobi, Kenya , crashes after takeoff, killing all 114 crew and passengers on board.
[25]
[26]
May 10 – As a result of factors including the
Blair-Brown pact and falling approval ratings as a result of the Iraq War, British Prime Minister
Tony Blair announces his intention to resign as
Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister, triggering the
2007 Labour Party leadership election , in which Chancellor
Gordon Brown ran unopposed. Brown would officially replace Blair as Prime Minister on 27 June.
[27]
[28]
May 10 –
12 – The
Eurovision Song Contest 2007 takes place in
Helsinki ,
Finland , and is won by
Serbian entrant
Marija Šerifović with the song "
Molitva ".
May 17 – The
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the
Moscow Patriarchate
re-unite after 80 years of schism.
[29]
May 20 – Sheikh
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of
Dubai makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to
an educational foundation in the Middle East.
[30]
June
June 5 –
NASA 's
MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of
Venus on route to
Mercury .
June 15 –
Bob Barker hosts his final episode of
The Price Is Right after 35 years of hosting.
June 22 – The
2007 Ellie tornado becomes the only F5 tornado recorded under the use of the
Fujita scale in
Canada , reaching windspeeds up to 320 mph (510 km/h).
June 27 –
Gordon Brown succeeds
Tony Blair and becomes
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after a
Leadership Election
June 28 –
2007 European heat wave : in the aftermath of Greece's worst
heat wave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from
heatstroke , approximately 200
wildfires break out nationwide , and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
June 29 – The
iPhone , the first modern smartphone, is released in the
United States . It was later released in the
United Kingdom ,
Ireland ,
France ,
Germany , and
Austria , in November 2007.
July
August
September
October
November
December
December 1 – At the age of 81 years, 244 days,
Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever reigning British monarch, surpassing
Queen Victoria who was aged 81 years, 243 days upon her death on January 22, 1901.
December 13 – The
Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members states of European Union.
December 20 – The
Pablo Picasso painting
Portrait of Suzanne Bloch , together with
Candido Portinari 's O Lavrador de Café , is stolen from the
São Paulo Museum of Art .
[49]
December 21 – The Czech Republic,
Estonia , Hungary,
Latvia ,
Lithuania ,
Malta , Poland,
Slovakia , and
Slovenia join the
Schengen border-free zone.
[50]
December 27
Unknown date
Mauritania is the last country to criminalise slavery (officially "abolished" in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.
[53]
Births and deaths
Nobel Prizes
New English words and terms
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