Deletion of 2007 in Costa Rica

Comment: The difference between these and the current events articles is that these are listing truly notable regional historical events not "news", as well as listing births deaths and incumbent leaders. There's nothing wrong with lists and as others have stated, encyclopedias often contain almanac style lists such as these. There are year-based articles for every year in Australia from 1788 to 2008, it would be a shame to see these deleted based on what I see as a very dubious interpretation of #NEWS. What is the difference between these and the regular year articles such as 2008 based on the nominator's rationale
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)