2007

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century – 21st century – 22nd century
Decades:	1970s  1980s  1990s  – 2000s –  2010s  2020s  2030s
Years:	2004 2005 2006 – 2007 – 2008 2009 2010

2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.

The year 2007 was designated:

• In the Chinese calendar, dates up to February 17 are in the Year of the Dog, while dates from February 18 onwards are in the Year of the Pig.
• European Year of Equal Opportunities for All
• Year of the Dolphin
• UNESCO has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.

Events

January

• January 1 - Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
• January 1 - The Irish language became an official and working language of the European Union.
• January 1 - Slovenia adopted the Euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar.
• January 1 - South Korea's Ban Ki-moon became the new UN Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
• January 4 - Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman Speaker of the House in the United States.
• January 12 - The US embassy in Athens was attacked with a rocket propelled grenade, which caused minimal damage and no injuries.
• January 13 - The Greek ship Server broke in half off the Norwegian coast, which released over 200 tons of crude oil.
• January 18 - Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to have appeared in over forty years, became visible over the Southern Hemisphere.
• January 25 - The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, took a temporary leave of absence due to a sex scandal.
• January 30 - Windows Vista, Microsoft's newest NT-based operating system, was released worldwide to consumers.

February

• February 2 - An unseasonal tornado in central Florida killed at least 20 people.
• February 2 - A policeman was killed in the Catania football clashes in Italy and 71 people are hopitalized.
• February 2 - Chinese President Hu Jintao signed a series of economic deals with Sudan.
• February 3 - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi cancelled all football matches in Italy whilst an investigation into riots on February 2 began.
• February 3 - Five people were killed and 40 were injured in a series of car bombs in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
• February 3 - A truck bombing in a crowded Baghdad market killed at least 135 people and injured a further 339 others.
• February 10 - U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois announced a presidential bid in Springfield.
• February 19 - North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear program, for oil.
• February 27 - World stock markets plummeted after China and Europe released less-than-expected growth reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 416.02 points, its largest single-day decline since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

March

• March 4 - Parliamentary elections took place in Estonia and in Abkhazia.
• March 6 - Mega Millions set a new world record for the highest jackpot of US$370 million.
• March 7 - Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, a Boeing 737-400, crashed at Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java killing many on board.
• March 7 - Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007, was held.
• March 8 - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted that Israel had planned an attack on Lebanon in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before Hezbollah carried out its kidnapping.
• March 11 - Daylight saving time in most of the United States and Canada began; three to four weeks earlier than previously.
• March 13 - The Bank of England replaces the £20 note bearing the portrait of Edward Elgar with one featuring Adam Smith.
• March 14 - Pi Day
• March 15 - March 21 - CeBIT 2007 took place in Hannover, Germany.
• March 17 - Chlorine bombs injured hundreds in Baghdad, Iraq.
• March 17 - France won the 2007 Six Nations Championship on points difference after a controversial tri.
• March 24 - A legislative election took place in the Australian state of New South Wales, with Morris Iemma's Labor government being returned to power with a reduced minority.
• March 25 - In Berlin 27 European ministers celebrate 50 year Treaty of Rome.
• March 25 - Daylight savings begins in Europe
• March 25 - This day marked the 200th anniversary of the finalization of the 1807 Slave trade act, which abolished the slave trade in the British Empire.
• March 31 - Sydney, Australia, turned off its lights for one hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a political statement for Global Climate Change.

April

• April 2 - Smoking in public and work places is banned in Wales.
• April 2 - 25th Anniversary of the Falklands War.
• April 3 - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved the Ukrainian parliament in a historic act of anti-communism in Ukraine. It has been nicknamed the "Second Orange Revolution"
• April 4 - Iran announces it will release the British sailors and marines that they captured on March 23.
• April 4 - Apple Inc. releases Mac Pro with 2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors each running at a speed of 3.0 GHz.
• April 5 - The British sailors and marines taken by Iran on March 23 arrive back in Britain.
• April 16 - The worst mass shooting in US history occurs at Virginia Tech.
• April 27 - Violence erupts in Estonia after the removal of a Soviet war memorial.

May

• May 4 - Tornado strikes Greensburg, Kansas, killing at least twelve and destroying about 90% of the town.
• May 5 - Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
• May 6 - Manchester United wins the English Premier League after title rivals Chelsea draw against Arsenal.
• May 9 - Subtropical Storm Andrea forms off the coast of Florida, the earliest subtropical storm since Subtropical Storm Ana in 2003.
• May 10 - Tony Blair announces he will resign as British Prime Minister on June 27 triggering a Labour Party leadership election.
• May 16 - Nicolas Sarkozy officially became President of the French Republic after taking over from Jacques Chirac.
• May 31 - A calendar blue moon occurred in the Western Hemisphere and parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.

June

• June 1 - A 2100 year old melon is found by archaeologists in western Japan
• June 2 - Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York.
• June 5 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
• June 5 - A mass grave in southern Ukraine, found accidentally by workers in May, has been confirmed to be filled with thousands of victims of The Holocaust.
• June 8 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117.
• June 18 - Nine Charleston, South Carolina firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire.
• June 27 - Tony Blair resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; New Labour Party leader Gordon Brown is appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II.
• June 29 - British police defuse a bomb in Haymarket, Central London.
• June 30 - A calendar blue moon occurs in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.

July

• July 1 - Smoking in public and work places is banned in England.
• July 1 - The Concert For Diana is held at Wembley Stadium to commemorate Diana, Princess of Wales.
• July 9 - Argentina's capital Buenos Aires is hit by its first snowfall in almost 90 years.
• July 14 - Following a presidential decree, Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
• July 16 - Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and released about 300 gallons of radioactive water.
• July 21 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
• July 21 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the Harry Potter series, is released.
• July 27 - Two news helicopters collide in midair while covering a police chase in Phoenix, Arizona. This killed both pilots and two photojournalists.
• July 29 - Iraq wins its first Asian Cup football championship, beating Saudi Arabia 1-0.
• July 30 - New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits U.S. President George W. Bush for the first time as Prime Minister.

August

• August 1 - The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on I-35W in Minneapolis, Minnesota collapsed at 6:05 pm.
• August 14 - Pakistan marks 60 years of independence.
• August 15 - Peru is hit by a major Earthquake.
• August 15 - India marks 60 years of independence.
• August 31 - Malaysia marks 50 years of independence.

September

• September 3 - Adventurer Steve Fossett goes missing.
• September 6 - Operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti dies aged 71.
• September 22 - Anti-government protests begin in Burma.

October

• October 18 - Terrorists strike Karachi on the return of Benazir Bhutto.
• October 28 - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is elected as Argentina's first female President.

November

• November 3 - In Pakistan, General Pervez Musharraf suspends the constitution and declares a State of Emergency.
• November 10 - American novelist Norman Mailer dies aged 84.
• November 24 - Kevin Rudd is elected Prime Minister of Australia.

December

• December 3 - Kevin Rudd takes office as Prime Minister of Australia.
• December 10 - Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner takes office as President of Argentina.
• December 19 - Marcus Stephen becomes President of Nauru after Ludwig Scotty loses a vote of confidence.
• December 20 - Queen Elizabeth II surpasses Queen Victoria as the oldest monarch in British history.
• December 27 - Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is killed in a terrorist attack.
• December 30 - Violence erupts in Kenya, after the disputed election victory of Mwai Kibaki.

Births

• February 28 - Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco, daughter of King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco.
• March 5- Eugenia Louis Alphonse-daughter of Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, and Venezuelen heiress Margarita Vargas Santaella.
• March 17 - Prince Abdul Muntaqim son of Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah and Sarah Pengiran Salleh, the Crown Prince and Princess of Brunei.
• March 19 - Prince Abdullah bin Al Ali, son of Prince Ali bin Al Hussein and his wife, Rym Brahimi.

Deaths

January - March

• January 5 - Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (b. 1910)
• January 8 - Iwao Takamoto, American animator (b. 1925)
• January 19 - Scott Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
• January 19 - Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
• January 23 - Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (b. 1932)
• January 26 - Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• January 28 - Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938)
• January 30 - Sidney Sheldon, American writer (b. 1917)
• February 8 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model and television personality (b. 1967)
• February 9 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
• February 17 - Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
• February 28 - Arthur Schlesinger Jr, American historian (b. 1917)
• March 2 - Henri Troyat, French writer (b. 1911)
• March 8 - John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
• March 31 - Paul Watzlawick, American psychologist (b. 1921)

April - June

Boris Yeltsin

• April 19 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
• April 23 - Boris Yeltsin, former President of Russia (b. 1931)
• April 25 - Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
• April 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian musician (b. 1927)
• May 11 - Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of Samoa (b. 1913)
• May 15 - Jerry Falwell, American televangelist (b. 1933)
• June 8 - Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, first President of Somalia (b. 1908)
• June 10 - Laurence Mancuso, American religious leader (b. 1934)
• June 13 - Walid Eido, Lebanese politician (b. 1942)
• June 14 - Ruth Graham, American poet, wife of Billy Graham (b. 1920)
• June 14 - Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (b. 1922)
• June 14 - Kurt Waldheim, 9th President of Austria, 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1918)
• June 21 - Georg Danzer, Austrian musician (b. 1946)
• June 24 - Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (b. 1967)

July - September

Luciano Pavarotti

• July 11 - Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
• July 20 - Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist (born 1942)
• July 30 - Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (b. 1912)
• July 30 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director (b. 1918)
• August 4 - Lee Hazlewood, American singer (b. 1929)
• August 28 - Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (b. 1984)
• September 5 - D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
• September 6 - Madeleine L'Engle, American writer (b. 1918)
• September 6 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (b. 1935)
• September 10 - Anita Roddick, British businesswoman (b. 1942)
• September 15 - Colin McRae, Scottish racecar driver (b. 1968)
• September 22 - Marcel Marceau, French actor and mime (b. 1923)
• September 29 - Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (b. 1927)

October - December

Benazir Bhutto

• October 14 - Bob Denard, French mercenary (b. 1929)
• October 24 - Petr Eben, Czech composer (b. 1929)
• November 10 - Norman Mailer, US author, (b. 1923)
• November 30 - Evel Knievel, American stuntman (b. 1938)
• December 5 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
• December 16 - Dan Fogelberg, American musician (b. 1951)
• December 19 - Inti Chauveau, French professor (b. 1925)
• December 27 - Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani opposition leader (b. 1953)
• December 29 - Phil O'Donnell, Scottish football player (b. 1972)

Movies

• Atlantis SquarePantis
• Garfield Gets Real
• High School Musical 2
• Knocked Up
• Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse
• The Simpsons Movie

Nobel prize winners

• Chemistry - Gerhard Ertl
• Economics - Leonid Hurwicz
• Economics - Eric S. Maskin
• Economics - Roger B. Myerson
• Literature - Doris Lessing
• Medicine - Mario R. Capecchi
• Medicine - Sir Martin J. Evans
• Medicine - Oliver Smithies
• Peace - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Peace - Al Gore
• Physics - Albert Fert
• Physics - Peter Grünberg

Holidays

• January 1 - New Year's Day
• January 26 - Australia Day. India Republic Day.
• February 19 - Presidents' Day in the USA.
• February 21 - Western Christianity: Ash Wednesday and start of Lent.
• March 17 - Saint Patrick's Day.
• March 19 - Feast of Saint Joseph in Christianity. In Judaism, start of the month of Nisan.
• March 21 - Norouz, Iranian and Bahai New Year.
• April 2 - In Judaism, 14/15 Nisan. Passover Seder.
• April 6 - Anniversary of the founding in 1830 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• April 6 is Good Friday in 2007 in the Western Christian calendar.
• April 8 - Easter (Western Christianity)
• April 10 - End of Passover or Feast of Unleavened Bread.
• April 23 - Saint George's Day.
• April 23 -Israeli Independence Day (Iyar 5) in the Hebrew calendar.
• April 25 - Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand
• May 1 - Beltane, a Cross-quarter day. Also Labor Day in most of the world, but not in the USA and Canada. May Day.
• May 21 - Victoria Day in Canada.
• May 28 - Memorial Day in the USA.
• August 1 - Lammas, "Loaf Mass," a Cross-quarter day.
• July 1 - Canada Day.
• July 4 - Independence Day in the USA.
• July 14 - Bastille Day.
• July 24 - Birthday of Simon Bolivar observed in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador. Pioneer Day observed in Utah.
• August 9 - National Day in Singapore
• September 3 - Labour Day in Canada and the USA.
• October 8 - Thanksgiving in Canada.
• October 31 - All Hallows' Eve, Halloween.
• November 1 - All Saints' Day. Samhain, a cross-quarter day. Neopagan New Year's Day.
• December 25 - Christmas in Western Christianity.
• December 26 - Boxing Day in most Commonwealth countries.

Movies, Mini-shorts, Shorts, TV Series and Video Games

• January 1 - Rubber Duck Adventures episode premieres with Landing on the Edge and Behind the Scenes: The Making of Landing on the Edge.
• January 5 - Happily N'ever After premiere movie.
• January 7 - Drake and Josh episode The Storm.
• January 15 - Spongebob Squarepants premiere episode with The Thing and Hocus Pocus.
• February 19 - Spongebob Squarepants premiere episodes.
• March 20 - Mickey Mouse Clubhouse premiered with Mickey's Great Clubhouse Hunt and Donald's Hiccups on DVD.
• March 30 - Meet the Robision premiere movie.
• March 31 - Spongebob Squarepants premiere episode.
• April 1 - Gumby spot mini-short "Gumby Baseball".
• April 4 - Firehouse Dog premiere movie.
• April 9 - Happy Easter Day premiere short film and Super Paper Mario video game.
• April 13 - Spongebob special Friend or Foe.
• April 14 - Kids Choice Award 2007 premiere movie.
• April 16 - Mario Party 8 video game.
• May 6 - Gumby spot mini-short "Gumby Soccer".
• May 18 - Shrek the Third premiere movie.
• June 1 - Knocked Up premiere movie.
• July 27 - The Simpsons Movie premiere movie.
• August 17 - High School Musical 2 TV movie premiered.
• August 20 - Yo Gabba Gabba! TV series. The first episode is Eat.
• August 21 - When Chuck E. Cheese Really Checked... package premiered DVD.
• August 24 - Edited from Doanld's Goofy World in February 5, 2001.
• September 4 - Gumby Essentials Volume 1 on DVD.
• September 29 - Spongebob Squarepants premiere Le Big Switch and Fungus Among Us.
• October 1 - The Simpsons Game video game.
• October 9 - Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck package video game and Veggietales: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz premiere DVD.
• October 29 - Yo Gabba Gabba! special Halloween.
• November 2 - Bee Movie movie premiered.
• November 6 - Yoshi Topsy-Turvy premiere movie DVD.
• November 12 - Spongebob Squarepants TV Movie Atlantis SquarePantis premiered from Z to A.
• November 20 - Garfield Gets Real premiere movie DVD.
• November 21 - Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse TV movie premiered.
• November 23 - Spongebob Squarepants premiere episodes.
• December 21 - Yo Gabba Gabba! special Christmas, Goofy short How to Hook Up Your Home Theater and Naturual Teasure 2 movie sequel premiere.
• December 29 - Fred and Ted Like to Fly short premiere.
• December 30 - Magical Things Starring Mickey Mouse episode A Note from Mickey, Mickey's Cousin and Fairy Tale: The Teeny Tiny Woman first aired December 30, 2007 and second aired with How to Scare the Ghost, KoKo the Clown is the Silly Thing and We, The Animals - Squeak!.
• December 31 - Furby's Big Adventure movie premiere DVD and Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse Virtual Boy video game this New Year's Eve and Rubber Duck Adventures The Island of Doom and Behind the Scenes: The Making of The Island of Doom and Magical Things episodes.