2007 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2007?
- January 17, 2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
- February 13, 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
- February 18, 2007 – Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people.
- March 1, 2007 – Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
- May 1, 2007 – the Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department’s response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
- May 5, 2007 – All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon.
- May 19, 2007 – President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension.
- July 1, 2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
- August 8, 2007 – An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
- August 22, 2007 – The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
- August 29, 2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
- September 13, 2007 – The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
- September 17, 2007 – AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.
- October 2, 2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
- November 7, 2007 – Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
- November 14, 2007 – The last direct-current electrical distribution system in the United States is shut down in New York City by Con Edison.
- December 25, 2007 – A tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escapes from its enclosure and attacks three people, killing one.
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