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2007 January 1 - Romania and Bulgaria join the EU. Slovenia adopts the Euro. January 18 - The Storm Kyrill wreaks havoc across Europe. February 10 - Barack Obama announces his intention to run for US President. February 23 - Train crash in Cumbria kills one person. March 18 - Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer is found dead in Kingston, Jamaica. March 23 - Iranian police arrest members of the Royal Navy, for allegedly trespassing into Iranian waters. March 25 - EU celebrates 50th birthday. April 4 - Iran releases the arrested Royal Navy personnel. April 16 - More than 30 people are killed at Virginia Tech in the worst mass shooting in US history. April 23 - Boris Yeltsin dies aged 76. April 27 - Violence erupts in Estonia after the removal of a soviet statue. May 3 - Madeleine McCann disappears from a holiday appartment in Portugal. May 6 - Nicholas Sarkozy is elected President of France. May 12 - Serbia wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki. May 16 - Nicholas Sarkozy takes office as President of France. May 17 - New SNP Government takes over in Scotland. June 6 - June 8 - G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany June 27 - Gordon Brown replaces Tony Blair as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. June 30 - A jeep loaded with explosives drives into the entrance of Glasgow Airport. July 7 - LiveEarth Concerts take place worldwide. July 9 - Buenos Aires experiences its first snowfall in 89 years. July 17 - Plane Crash in Rio de Janeiro kills 190 people. July 18 - The UK expels 4 Russian diplomats. Russia expels 4 British diplomats. July 20 - Widespread flooding occurs in England and Wales. July 25 - Pratibha Patil became India's first female President. July 30 - Film directors Michelangelo Antonioni (94) and Ingmar Bergman (89) die. August 1 - A bridge collapses in Minneapolis. August 14/15 - India and Pakistan celebrate 60 years of independence. August 15 - Earthquake in Ica, Peru kills over 500. September 3 - Steve Fossett goes missing. September 6 - Luciano Pavarotti dies aged 71. September 16 - Deadly Plane Crash occurs in Phuket, Thailand. September 23 - Buddhist monks in Burma start a weeklong protest. October 18 - Several bombs explode in Karachi on the return of Benazir Bhutto. October 21 - Donald Tusk wins Poland's parliamentary election. November 3 - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf calls a state of emergency and suspends the constitution. November 6 - US Mid Term Election results in gains for the Democrats. November 24 - Kevin Rudd wins the Australian General Election. December 3 - Kevin Rudd takes office as Prime Minister of Australia. December 10 - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner takes office as Argentina's first female President. December 27 - Benazir Bhutto is killed in a bomb attack in Rawalpindi. December 31 - Violence erupts after Kenyan Presidential Election. Deaths January 7 - Magnus Magnusson (77), Icelandic-born TV Presenter January 24 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro (115), world's oldest man January 28 - Karel Svoboda (68), Czech composer February 8 - Anna-Nicole Smith (39), American model February 12 - Georg Buschner (81), German footballer February 13 - Johanna Sallstrom (32), Swedish actress February 16 - Sheridan Morley (66), British broadcaster February 17 - Maurice Papon (96), French Nazi collaborator March 18 - Bob Woolmer (58), English cricketer and coach April 11 - Kurt Vonnegut (77), American writer April 23 - Boris Yeltsin (76), former Russian President April 27 - Mstislav Rustropovich (80), cellist May 11 - Tanumafili (88), sovereign ruler of Samoa June 14 - Kurt Waldheim (88), Austrian politician July 5 - George Melly (80), musician July 11 - Lady Bird Johnson (94), former US First Lady July 23 - Ernst Otto Fischer (88), German chemist July 29 - Mike Reid (67), English actor July 30 - Michelangelo Antonioni (94), Italian film director July 30 - Ingmar Bergman (89), Swedish film director August 28 - Antonio Puerta (22), Spanish footballer August 29 - Chaswe Nsofwa (29), Zambian footballer September 6 - Luciano Pavarotti (71), Italian opera singer September 10 - Jane Wyman (93), American actress September 10 - Anita Roddick (64), British businesswoman September 15 - Colin McRae (39), Scottish rally driver September 22 - Marcel Marceau (84), French mime artist September 29 - Lois Maxwell (80), Canadian actress October 16 - Deborah Kerr (86), Scottish dancer and actress October 28 - Evelyn Hamann (65), German actress November 5 - Nils Lidholm (86), Swedish footballer November 10 - Norman Mailer (84), American writer November 20 - Ian Smith (88), Zimbabwean politician December 5 - Karlheinz Stockhausen (79), German composer December 12 - Ike Turner (76), musician December 27 - Benazir Bhutto (54), Pakistani politician December 27 - Jan Kross (87), Estonian writer December 29 - Phil O'Donnell (35), Scottish footballer

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