2007

A selection of events from Wikipedia's 2007 page. This will eventually list events from "Timeline" as well. 
==Meta==
"2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium, the 7th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade." 
2007 was designated as
* Heliophysical Year
* International Polar Year
* European Year of Equal Opportunities for All
* Year of Rumi
* Year of the Dolphin
* Scotland's Year of Highland Culture
* Scouting Centenary, celebrating 100 years of the Scout Movement.
* Leicester's year of construction
UNESCO has recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.
==Q1==
===January===
January 1 - Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union. Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages. Slovenia joins Eurozone.
January 9 – Apple Inc.'s CEO and founder, Steve Jobs, announces the first generation iPhone (it goes on sale in the United States on June 29).
January 12 – Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), the brightest comet in more than 40 years, makes perihelion.
January 14 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement adopts the Red Crystal as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations.
January 17 – Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of Celebrity Big Brother, after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were allegedly racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
===February===
February 2 - Martti Ahtisaari unveils a United Nations plan for the final status of Kosovo; Serbian leaders denounce the proposal.
February 27 – The Chinese Correction: World stock markets plummet after China and Europe release less-than-expected growth reports.
February 28 – The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter, which changes its trajectory towards Pluto.
===March===
March 1 – The International Polar Year, a $1.73 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole, is launched in Paris.
==Q2==
===April===
April 3
* French high speed passenger train, the TGV, reaches a top speed of 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph), breaking the record for the world's fastest conventional train.
* Second Orange Revolution: The President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, dissolves the Ukrainian Parliament, following defections that increased the majority of his opponents.
April 10 – Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, daughter of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima. >Prophetesses<
April 21 – Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederick and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.
April 24 – Gliese 581 c, a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet habitable for life, is discovered in the constellation Libra.
April 26-27 – Bronze Night: Ethnic Russians riot in Tallinn and other towns in Estonia, about moving the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet World War II memorial. One person is killed after two of the worst nights of rioting in Estonian history. >Kaidanovskys<
28 April - An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the richter scale strikes in Kent, injuring one and causing damage to buildings.
April 29 – Infanta Sofía of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias (now King Felipe VI) and Letizia, Princess of Asturias.
===May===
May 3 – British child Madeleine McCann disappears from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
May 16 – The United Nations General Assembly, recognizing that genuine multilingualism promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages.[9]
May 17 – The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-unite after 80 years of schism.
===June===
June 1 – A 2,100-year-old melon is discovered by archaeologists in western Japan.[10]
June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
June 28 – 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.
==Q3==
===July===
July 2 – Venus and Saturn are in conjunction, separation 46 arcsecs.
July 7 - Live Earth Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world.
July 21 – The final book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is released and sells over 11 million copies in the first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history.[11]
===August===
August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft is launched toward the Martian north pole.
August 9 – The French global bank BNP Paribas in the United Kingdom blocks withdrawals from three hedge funds heavily committed in sub-prime mortgages, signaling the 2007–2012 global financial crisis.[13]
August 15 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.
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 dissolution of the Soviet Union.
===September===
September 1 - The Eurovision Dance Contest is held in London.
September 2–9 – The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit hosts its 19th annual city meeting in Sydney.
September 6 – Operation Orchard: Israeli airplanes strike a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
September 14 – The SELENE spacecraft launches. JAXA has called the mission, "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program."
September 24 - India win the inaugural 2007 ICC World Twenty20 Cup, beating Pakistan in the final.
==Q4==
===October===
October 24 – In the space of a few hours, Comet Holmes develops a coma and flares up to half a million times its former brightness, becoming visible to the naked eye. Its coma later becomes larger in volume than the Sun, the second such comet in 2007 after Comet McNaught.
===November===
November 5 – The Writers Guild of America goes on a strike that lasts until February 12, 2008.
November 14 
* High Speed 1 from London to the Channel Tunnel is opened to passengers.
* The 7.7 Mw Tocopilla earthquake shakes northern Chile with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving two dead and sixty-five injured.
November 30 – Rambhadracharya, a Hindu religious leader, released the first Braille version of Bhagavad Gita, with the original Sanskrit text and a Hindi commentary at New Delhi.
===December===
December 7 – Uranus's orbit is positioned such that the sun shines directly above its equator (i.e. an equinox).
December 8 – The 2007 Africa–EU Summit takes place as European Union and African Union leaders gather in Lisbon, Portugal, for their first joint summit in 7 years. The British and Czech prime ministers boycott the event due to the presence of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
December 10 – The United Nations deadline for a negotiated settlement on the future of Kosovo passes without an international agreement.
December 16 – Ron Paul sets a record by raising over six million dollars online in just 24 hours, an event known as a moneybomb.
December 17 – birth of James, Viscount Severn, grandson of Elizabeth II, son of The Earl and Countess of Wessex
December 19 – Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is announced as Time magazine's 2007 Person of the Year.
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.
December 21 – The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the Schengen border-free zone.
December 24 – The Nepalese government announces that the country's 240-year-old monarchy will be abolished in 2008 and a new republic will be declared.
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