What historical events happened in 2007?

Answer 1

2007 Events

January 1 - Romania and Bulgaria join the EU. Slovenia adopts the Euro.

January 2 - Gerald Ford is laid to rest.

January 18 - The Storm 'Kyrill' wreaks havoc across Europe.

February 10 - Barack Obama announces his intention to run for US President in 2008.

February 23 - A train derails in Cumbria, England, killing one person.

March 23 - British Royal Navy personnel are arrested in Iran (rel. April 4).

March 25 - The EU celebrates 50 years since the EEC was founded.

April 16 - The worst mass shooting in US history occurs at Virginia Tech. 32 die.

April 23 - Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin dies aged 76.

April 27 - The removal of a soviet war memorial results in riots in Estonia.

May 3 - British toddler Madeleine McCann is abducted in Portugal.

May 6 - Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France.

May 11 - Samoa's sovereign ruler Malietoa Tanumafili dies.

May 16 - Nicolas Sarkozy becomes President of France.

May 21 - The Cutty Sark is destroyed by fire.

June 6 - G8 summit takes place in Heiligendamm, on Germany's Baltic coast.

June 27 - Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister of the UK.

June 30 - A jeep is crashed into Glasgow Airport and goes up in flames.

July 7 - Live Earth concerts take place worldwide.

July 8 - Roger Federer wins a fifth consecutive Wimbledon.

July 9 - Buenos Aires experiences its first snowfall for 89 years.

July 17 - Brazil's worst ever air crash occurs at Rio de Janeiro.

July 19 - The UK expels four Russian diplomats. Russia follows suit.

July 25 - Pratibha Patil becomes India's first female President.

July 30 - Film directors Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni both die.

August 1 - A bridge collapses in Minneapolis during the evening rush hour.

August 14/15 - India and Pakistan mark 60 years of independence.

September 3 - Adventurer Steve Fossett goes missing in E. California.

September 6 - Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti dies aged 71.

September 16 - A devastating air crash occurs in Phuket, Thailand.

September 22 - Anti-government protests begin in Burma.

October 18 - Karachi is hit by terrorist attacks on the return of Benazir Bhutto.

October 21 - Donald Tusk is elected Prime Minister of Poland.

October 28 - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is elected President of Argentina.

November 3 - In Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf suspends the constitution.

November 3 - Pervez Musharraf declares a state of emergency in Pakistan.

November 15 - Cyclone Sidr devastates Bangladesh.

November 23 - The Cruise ship Explorer sinks off the Antarctic Peninsula.

November 24 - Kevin Rudd is elected Prime Minister of Australia.

November 30 - Stuntman Evel Knievel dies aged 69.

December 3 - Kevin Rudd becomes Prime Minister of Australia.

December 10 - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner becomes President of Argentina.

December 19 - Marcus Stephen becomes President of Nauru.

December 27 - Benazir Bhutto dies in a terrorist attack in Rawalpindi.

December 30 - Post-election violence erupts in Kenya.

DEATHS

January 7 - Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-born TV presenter

January 24 - Emiliano Mercado del Toro, world's oldest man

January 28 - Karel Svoboda, Czech composer

February 8 - Anna-Nicole Smith, American model

February 9 - Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish inventor of table football

February 9 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor

February 12 - Georg Buschner, East Germany football coach

February 13 - Johanna Sallstrom, Swedish actress

February 16 - Sheridan Morley, British broadcaster

February 17 - Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator

March 18 - Bob Woolmer, Pakistan cricket coach

April 11 - Kurt Vonnegut, American writer

April 23 - Boris Yeltsin, Russian President

April 25 - Alan Ball, English footballer

April 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist

April 30 - Gregory Lemarchal, French singer

May 11 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa

June 5 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer

June 14 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician

June 26 - Jupp Derwall, German football coach

July 4 - Baris Akarsu, Turkish singer

July 5 - George Melly, American musician

July 11 - Lady Bird Johnson, US First Lady

July 23 - Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist

July 29 - Mike Reid, British actor

July 30 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film diredtor

July 30 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director

August 5 - Jean-Marie Lustiger, French cardinal

August 13 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese, world's oldest person

August 28 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer

August 29 - Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer

September 3 - Steve Fossett, American adventurer (remains found in 2008)

September 6 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian operatic tenor

September 10 - Jane Wyman, American actress

September 10 - Anita Roddick, British businesswoman

September 15 - Colin McRae, Scottish rally driver

September 22 - Marcel Marceau, French mime artist

September 29 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress

October 14 - Big Moe, American rapper

October 16 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress

October 28 - Evelyn Hamann, German actress

October 30 - Robert Goulet, American entertainer

November 5 - Nils Liedholm, Swedish football coach

November 10 - Norman Mailer, American writer

November 20 - Ian Smith, Zimbabwean politician

November 30 - Evel Knievel, American stuntman/daredevil

December 5 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer

December 12 - Ike Turner, American musician

December 27 - Jan Kross, Estonian writer

December 27 - Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan

December 29 - Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer