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
a major event is something very big that has happened
I think that Hitler's major event was the killing of the Jews.
A major event is that man walked on the moon. Another major event is that President Kennedy was shot. Another major event was the bombing of Pearl harbor.
A major event in 500-1800 is the rise of japan.
Tour de France would be a major cycling event
Wonderland - event - was created in 2007.
Carnival in Rio De Janeiro is one major event in Brazil.
A Major sixties is the event where whites and BLACKS are united
Probably the major historical event that occurred between 1996 and 2007 was the destruction the World Trade Center in New York City. It occurred on September 11, 2001.
Fencing is a major event in the summer Olympics as well as the world fencing championship.
The Breeders' Cup is a major event in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing.
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was a major event that led to WW1