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^[1]

· UNESCO has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.^[2]

Contents

· 1Events

o 1.5May

o 1.6June

o 1.7July

· 2Births

· 3Deaths

o 3.5May

o 3.6June

o 3.7July

· 4Movies

· 5Songs

· 6Books

· 7Nobel prize winners

· 8Holidays

· 9Movies, Mini-shorts, Shorts, TV Series and Video Games

· 10References

· 11Other websites

Events[change | change source]

January[change | change source]

· 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[change | change source]

· 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[change | change source]

· 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[change | change source]

· 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[change | change source]

· 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[change | change source]

· June 1 – A 2100 year old melon is found by archaeologists in western Japan^[3]

· June 2 – Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York.^[4]

· 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.^[5]

· June 8 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117.

· 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.^[6]

· June 30 – A calendar blue moon occurs in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.

July[change | change source]

· 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[change | change source]

· 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[change | change source]

· September 3 – Adventurer Steve Fossett goes missing.

· September 6 – Operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti dies aged 71.

· September 22 – Anti-government protests begin in Burma.