2007

2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar.

The year 2007 was called:
 In the Chinese calendar, dates up to February 17 are in the Year of the Dog, while dates from February 18 onwards are in the Year of the Pig.
 European Year of Equal Opportunities for All
 Year of the Dolphin 
 UNESCO has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.Celebration of anniversaries with which UNESCO will be associated in 2006-2007

 Events 
 January 
 January 1 – Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
 January 1 – Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages.
 January 1 – Slovenia adopted the Euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar.
 January 1 – South Korea's Ban Ki-moon became the new UN Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
 January 4 – Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman Speaker of the House in the United States.
 January 12 – The US embassy in Athens was attacked with a rocket propelled grenade, which caused minimal damage and no injuries.
 January 13 – The Greek ship Server broke in half off the Norwegian coast, which released over 200 tons of crude oil.
 January 18 – Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to have appeared in over forty years, became visible over the Southern Hemisphere.
 January 25 – The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, took a temporary leave of absence due to a sex scandal.
 January 30 – Windows Vista, Microsoft's newest NT-based operating system, was released worldwide to consumers.

 February 
 February 2 – An unseasonal tornado in central Florida killed at least 20 people.
 February 2 – A policeman was killed in the Catania football clashes in Italy and 71 people are hospitalized.
 February 2 – Chinese President Hu Jintao signed a series of economic deals with Sudan.
 February 3 – Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi cancelled all football matches in Italy whilst an investigation into riots on February 2 began.
 February 3 – Five people were killed and 40 were injured in a series of car bombs in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
 February 3 – A truck bombing in a crowded Baghdad market killed at least 135 people and injured a further 339 others.
 February 10 – U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois announced a presidential bid in Springfield.
 February 19 – North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear program, for oil.
 February 27 – World stock markets plummeted after China and Europe released less-than-expected growth reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 416.02 points, its largest single-day decline since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

 March 
 March 4 – Parliamentary elections took place in Estonia and in Abkhazia.
 March 6 – Mega Millions set a new world record for the highest jackpot of US$370 million.
 March 7 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, a Boeing 737-400, crashed at Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java killing many on board.
 March 7 – Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007, was held.
 March 8 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted that Israel had planned an attack on Lebanon in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before Hezbollah carried out its kidnapping.
 March 11 – Daylight saving time in most of the United States and Canada began; three to four weeks earlier than previously.
 March 13 – The Bank of England replaces the £20 note bearing the portrait of Edward Elgar with one featuring Adam Smith.
 March 14 – Pi Day
 March 15 – March 21 – CeBIT 2007 took place in Hannover, Germany.
 March 17 – Chlorine bombs injured hundreds in Baghdad, Iraq.
 March 17 – France won the 2007 Six Nations Championship on points difference after a controversial tri.
 March 24 – A legislative election took place in the Australian state of New South Wales, with Morris Iemma's Labor government being returned to power with a reduced minority.
 March 25 – In Berlin 27 European ministers celebrate 50 year Treaty of Rome.
 March 25 – Daylight savings begins in Europe
 March 25 – This day marked the 200th anniversary of the finalization of the 1807 Slave trade act, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.
 March 31 – Sydney, Australia, turned off its lights for one hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a political statement for Global Climate Change.

 April 
 April 2 – Smoking in public and work places is banned in Wales.
 April 2 – 25th Anniversary of the Falklands War.
 April 3 – Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved the Ukrainian parliament in a historic act of anti-communism in Ukraine. It has been nicknamed the "Second Orange Revolution"
 April 4 – Iran announces it will release the British sailors and marines that they captured on March 23.
 April 4 – Apple Inc. releases Mac Pro with two Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors each running at a speed of 3.0 GHz.
 April 5 – The British sailors and marines taken by Iran on March 23 arrive back in Britain.
 April 16 – The worst mass shooting in US history occurs at Virginia Tech.
 April 27 – Violence erupts in Estonia after the removal of a Soviet war memorial.

 May 
 May 4 – Tornado strikes Greensburg, Kansas, killing at least twelve and destroying about 90% of the town.
 May 5 – Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
 May 6 – Manchester United wins the English Premier League after title rivals Chelsea draw against Arsenal.
 May 9 – Subtropical Storm Andrea forms off the coast of Florida, the earliest subtropical storm since Subtropical Storm Ana in 2003.
 May 10 – Tony Blair announces he will resign as British Prime Minister on June 27 triggering a Labour Party leadership election.
 May 16 – Nicolas Sarkozy officially became President of the French Republic after taking over from Jacques Chirac.
 May 31 – A calendar blue moon occurred in the Western Hemisphere and parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.

 June 
 June 1 – A 2100 year old melon is found by archaeologists in western Japan
 June 2 – Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York City.
 June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
 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.
 June 8 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117.
 June 10 - Emma's Theatre got debuted.
 June 18 – Nine Charleston, South Carolina firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire.
 June 27 – Tony Blair resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; New Labour Party leader Gordon Brown is appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II.
 June 29 – British police defuse a bomb in Haymarket, Central London.
 June 30 – A calendar blue moon occurs in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.

 July 
 July 1 – Smoking in public and work places is banned in England.
 July 1 – The Concert For Diana is held at Wembley Stadium to commemorate Diana, Princess of Wales.
 July 9 – Argentina's capital Buenos Aires is hit by its first snowfall in almost 90 years.
 July 14 – Following a presidential decree, Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
 July 16 – Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and released about 300 gallons of radioactive water.
 July 21 – U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
 July 21 – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the Harry Potter series, is released.
 July 27 – Two news helicopters collide in midair while covering a police chase in Phoenix, Arizona. This killed both pilots and two photojournalists.
 July 29 – Iraq wins its first Asian Cup football championship, beating Saudi Arabia 1–0.
 July 30 – New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits U.S. President George W. Bush for the first time as Prime Minister.

 August 
 August 1 – The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on I-35W in Minneapolis, Minnesota collapsed at 6:05 pm.
 August 14 – Pakistan marks 60 years of independence.
 August 15 – Peru is hit by a major Earthquake.
 August 15 – India marks 60 years of independence.
 August 31 – Malaysia marks 50 years of independence.

 September 
 September 3 – Adventurer Steve Fossett goes missing.
 September 6 – Operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti dies aged 71.
 September 22 – Anti-government protests begin in Burma.

 October 
 October 18 – Terrorists strike Karachi on the return of Benazir Bhutto.
 October 28 – Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is elected as Argentina's first female President.

 November 
 November 3 – In Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf suspends the constitution and declares a State of Emergency.
 November 10 – American novelist Norman Mailer dies aged 84.
 November 24 – Kevin Rudd is elected Prime Minister of Australia.

 December 
 December 3 – Kevin Rudd takes office as Prime Minister of Australia.
 December 10 – Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner takes office as President of Argentina.
 December 11 - Car bombs in Algiers kill 41 people and injured 170 others.
 December 19 – Marcus Stephen becomes President of Nauru after Ludwig Scotty loses a vote of confidence.
 December 20 – Queen Elizabeth II surpasses Queen Victoria as the oldest monarch in British history.
 December 27 – Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is killed in a terrorist attack.
 December 30 – Violence erupts in Kenya, after the disputed election victory of Mwai Kibaki.

 Births 

 February 28 – Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco, daughter of King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco.
 March 1 - Parker Bates, American child actor, in the film of This Is Us.
 March 5- Eugenia Louis Alphonse-daughter of Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, and Venezuelen heiress Margarita Vargas Santaella.
 March 17 – Prince Abdul Muntaqim son of Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah and Sarah Pengiran Salleh, the Crown Prince and Princess of Brunei.
 March 19 – Prince Abdullah bin Al Ali, son of Prince Ali bin Al Hussein and his wife, Rym Brahimi.
 June 3 - Jakob Burns - A Canadian boy was disappear on November 5, 2020 in New Brunswick, Canada.
 September 1 – Wakana Matsumoto, singer and idol

 Deaths 
 January 
 January 4 – Marais Viljoen, South African politician (b. 1915)
 January 5 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (b. 1910)
 January 8 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress (b. 1922)
 January 9 – Carlo Ponti, Italian movie 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 17 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
 January 19
 Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
 Denny Doherty, Canadian musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1940)
 January 22 – Abbé Pierre, French priest and founder of Emmaus (b. 1912)
 January 23 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
 January 30 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer (b. 1917)

 February 
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 February 1 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian opera composer (b. 1911)
 February 6 – Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
 February 7 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist (b. 1927)
 February 8 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model (b. 1967)
 February 9 – Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
 February 15 – Robert Adler, Austrian-born inventor (b. 1913)
 February 23 – Pascal Yoadimnadji, Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1950)
 February 28 – Arthur Schlesinger Jr, American historian (b. 1917)

 March 
 March 1 – Sydney Gun Munro, former Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (b. 1916)
 March 2 – Henri Troyat, French writer (b. 1911)
 March 6 – Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher (b. 1929)
 March 9 – Brad Delp, American singer (b. 1951)
 March 11 – Betty Hutton, American actress (b. 1921)
 March 17 – Freddie Francis, English film director (b. 1917)
 March 20 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, former Vice President of Iraq (b. 1937)
 March 25 – Andranik Margaryan, Prime Minister of Armenia (b. 1951)
 March 29 – Tosiwo Nakayama, 1st President of the Federated States of Micronesia (b. 1931)

 April 
 April 6 – Luigi Comencini, Italian movie director (b. 1916)
 April 7 – Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
 April 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American writer (b. 1922)
 April 16 – Seung-Hui Cho, Korean-born American perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre (b. 1984)
 April 17 – Kitty Carlisle, American actress and singer (b. 1910)
 April 19 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
 April 23 – Boris Yeltsin, former President of Russia (b. 1931)
 April 23 – David Halberstam, American writer and journalist (b. 1934)
 April 25 – Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
 April 27 – Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian musician (b. 1927)
 April 28 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker, German philosopher (b. 1912)
 April 29 – Ivica Racan, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
 April 30 – Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1926)

 May 
 May 3 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (b. 1923)
 May 5 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
 May 11 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (b. 1913)
 May 15 – Yolanda King, American activist (b. 1955)
 May 17 – Lloyd Alexander, American writer (b. 1924)
 May 18 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (b. 1932)
 May 25 – Bartholomew Ulufa'alu, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands (b. 1950)
 May 27 – Zard, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
 May 30 – Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor (b. 1933)

 June 
 June 2 – Huang Ju, Chinese politician (b. 1938)
 June 8 – Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia (b. 1908)
 June 10 – Laurence Mancuso, American religious leader (b. 1934)
 June 11 – Tito Gómez, Puerto Rican singer (b. 1948)
 June 14 – Kurt Waldheim, 9th President of Austria, 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1918)
 June 17 – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian designer (b. 1944)
 June 18 – Vilma Espín, Cuban feminist (b. 1930)
 June 19 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor, equestrian, film producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)
 June 24 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)
 June 26 – Jupp Derwall, German footballer (b. 1927)
 June 28 – Kiichi Miyazawa, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)

 July 
 July 3 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (b. 1927) 
 July 8 – Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (b. 1927)
 July 11 – Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
 July 11 – Alfonso López Michelsen, 32nd President of Colombia (b. 1913)
 July 20 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist (b. 1918)
 July 22 – Andre Milongo, former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1935)
 July 22 – Ulrich Muehe, German actor (b. 1953)
 July 22 – Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian cinematographer (b. 1933)
 July 23 – Mohammed Zahir Shah, last King of Afghanistan (b. 1914)
 July 23 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist (b. 1918)
 July 23 – Tom Davis, former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1917)
 July 27 – Abdullah Kurshumi, former Prime Minister of Yemen (b. 1932)
 July 30 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian movie director (b. 1912)
 July 30 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish movie director (b. 1918)

 August 
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 August 1 – Ryan Cox, South African professional road racing cyclist (b. 1979)
 August 4 – Lee Hazlewood, American country and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1929)
 August 5 – Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Cardinal Archbishop of Paris (b. 1926)
 August 10 – Tony Wilson, English broadcaster, nightclub manager, and record label owner (b. 1950)
 August 12 – Merv Griffin, American television personality (b. 1925)
 August 16 – Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
 August 20 – Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. 1920)
 August 24 – Abdul Rahman Arif, 3rd President of Iraq (b. 1916)
 August 25 – Raymond Barre, French politician and economist (b. 1924)
 August 26 – Gaston Thorn, Luxembourger politician, 19th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1928)
 August 28 – Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (b. 1929)
 August 29 – Pierre Messmer, French politician (b. 1916)

 September 
 September 3 – Steve Fossett, American adventurer (b. 1944)
 September 6 – Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (b. 1918)
 September 6 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
 September 7 – John Compton, former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (b. 1925)
 September 10 – Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
 September 10 – Jane Wyman, American actress (b. 1917)
 September 15 – Colin McRae, Scottish racecar driver (b. 1968)
 September 16 – Robert Jordan, American novelist (b. 1948)
 September 21 – Petar Stambolić, Serbian politician (b. 1912)
 September 22 – André Gorz, Austrian-born French philosopher (b. 1923)
 September 22 – Marcel Marceau, French actor (b. 1923)
 September 29 – Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)

 October 
 October 1 – Al Oerter, American athlete (b. 1936)
 October 7 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
 October 7 – Stephane Maurice Bongo-Nouarra, former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1937)
 October 9 – Carol Bruce, American singer and actress (b. 1919)
 October 12 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
 October 12 – Soe Win, Burmese politician (b. 1948)
 October 16 – Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (b. 1981)
 October 16 – Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress (b. 1921)
 October 22 – Eve Curie, French writer (b. 1905)
 October 25 – Puntsagiin Jasrai, former Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1933)
 October 26 – Arthur Kornberg, American winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)
 October 30 – John Woodruff, American athlete (b. 1915)

 November 
 November 1 – Paul Tibbets, American pilot (b. 1929)
 November 5 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
 November 8 – Stephen Fumio Hamao, Japanese cardinal (b. 1930)
 November 9 – Luis Herrera Campins, former President of Venezuela (b. 1925)
 November 10 – Norman Mailer, American writer (b. 1923)
 November 10 – Laraine Day, American actress (b. 1920)
 November 12 – Janlavyn Narantsralt, former Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1957)
 November 12 – Ira Levin, American writer (b. 1929)
 November 17 – Ambroise Noumazalaye, former Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1933)
 November 20 – Ian Smith, 8th Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1919)
 November 22 – Maurice Béjart, French dancer (b. 1927)
 November 28 – Elly Beinhorn, German pilot and writer (b. 1907)
 November 30 – Evel Knievel, American stuntman (b. 1938)

 December 
 December 1 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (b. 1929)
 December 5 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
 December 12 – Ike Turner, American musician (b. 1931)
 December 16 – Dan Fogelberg, American musician (b. 1951)
 December 22 – Chrysostomos I, Archbishop of Cyprus (b. 1927)
 December 23 – Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist (b. 1925)
 December 27 – Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1953)
 December 27 – Jan Kawalerowicz, Polish movie director (b. 1922)
 December 27 – Jaan Kross, Estonian writer (b. 1920)
 December 31 – Muhammad Osman Said, former Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1922)

 Nobel prize winners 
 Chemistry – Gerhard Ertl
 Economics – Leonid Hurwicz
 Economics – Eric S. Maskin
 Economics – Roger B. Myerson
 Literature – Doris Lessing
 Medicine – Mario R. Capecchi
 Medicine – Sir Martin J. Evans
 Medicine – Oliver Smithies
 Peace – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
 Peace – Al Gore
 Physics – Albert Fert
 Physics – Peter Grünberg

 References 

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