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2007

EVENTS

January 1 - Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.

January 1 - Slovenia adopts the Euro.

January 2 - Gerald Ford is laid to rest.

January 18 - Storm Kirill causes havoc across Europe.

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

February 23 - A major train crash occurs in Cumbria, England.

March 18 - Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer is found dead in Kingston, Jamaica.

March 23 - British Royal Navy personnel are arrested for allegedly entering Iranian waters.

March 25 - The EU marks its 50th birthday.

March 25 - The UK marks 200 years since the end of slavery in the former British Empire.

April 4 - The captured Royal Navy personnel are released by Iran.

April 16 - The worst mass shooting in US history occurs at Virginia Tech, as 33 people are killed.

April 22 - The first round of France's Presidential Election ends the Presidential ambitions of far-right politician Jean-Marie Le-Pen.

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

April 27 - Violence erupts in Estonia after the removal of a Soviet-Era war memorial.

May 3 - British toddler Madeleine McCann disappears in Portugal.

May 6 - Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France.

May 11 - Samoan ruler Tanumafili dies.

May 16 - Nicolas Sarkozy becomes President of France.

May 21 - The Cutty Sark is damaged by fire.

June 27 - Gordon Brown becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

June 30 - Terrorists drive a jeep into the entrance of Glasgow Airport, which ultimately bursts into flames.

July 7 - 07/07/07

July 7 - Live Earth concerts take place worldwide.

July 9 - Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires experiences its first snowfall for 89 years.

July 17 - Brazil's worst ever aviation disaster occurs as a plane crashes Rio de Janeiro's main airport.

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

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

August 28 - Abdullah Gul becomes President of Turkey.

September 3 - Steve Fossett disappears in the Sierra Nevada (USA). His remains are found in October 2008.

September 6 - Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti dies aged 71.

September 16 - A major plane crash occurs at Phuket, Thailand

September 22 - Pro-Democracy protests begin in Burma.

October 18 - Terrorist bombs explode in Karachi 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 - Pervez Musharraf declares a state of emergency in Pakistan, and suspends the constitution.

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

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

December 3 - Kevin Rudd becomes Prime Minister of Australia.

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

December 19 - Marcus Stephen succeeds Ludwig Scotty as President of Nauru.

December 27 - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is killed in a bomb attack.

December 31 - 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 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor

February 12 - Georg Buschner, German 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, cricket coach

April 11 - Kurt Vonnegut, American writer

April 23 - Boris Yeltsin, former President of Russia

April 25 - Alan Ball, English footballer

April 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist

April 30 - Gregory Lemarchal, French singer

May 3 - Wally Schirra, American astronaut

May 11 - Tanumafili, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa.

June 5 - Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer

June 14 - Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician

July 4 - Baris Akarsu, Turkish singer

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 director

July 30 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director

August 28 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer

August 29 - Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer

September 3 - Steve Fossett, American adventurer

September 6 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian 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 - Tose Proeski, Macedonian pop star

October 16 - Deborah Kerr, Scottish actress

October 28 - Evelyn Hamann, German actress

October 30 - Robert Goulet, Canadian-born entertainer

November 5 - Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer

November 10 - Norman Mailer, American writer

November 20 - Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician

November 30 - Evel Knievel, American daredevil

December 5 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer

December 27 - Jan Kross, Estonian writer

December 27 - Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan#

December 29 - Phil O'Donnell, Scottish footballer

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