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This article is about the year 2007. For the album, see
2007
(album)
.
Calendar year
2007
(
MMVII
) was a
common year starting on Monday
of the
Gregorian calendar
, the 2007th year of the
Common Era
(CE) and
Anno Domini
(AD) designations, the 7th year of the
3rd millennium
and the
21st century
, and the 8th year of the
2000s
decade.
Calendar year
2007 was designated as the
International Heliophysical Year
[1]
and the
International Polar Year
.
[2]
Events
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January
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February
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March
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- March 1
– The fourth
International Polar Year
, a $1.73 billion research program to study both the
North Pole
and
South Pole
, is launched in Paris.
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- March 3
– A
total lunar eclipse
occurs and is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. It is the 52nd lunar eclipse of
Lunar Saros series 123
occurring at the moon's descending node. The moon is just 3.2 days before apogee, making it fairly small.
- March 4
– The
First Ivorian Civil War
ends with a peace agreement.
- March 11
– According to an accusation
[15]
by
Georgia
,
three Russian helicopters fire
on the Georgian-controlled
[16]
Kodori Gorge
in a break-away autonomous republic of
Abkhazia
in north-western Georgia.
- March 13
–
April 28
– The
2007 Cricket World Cup
is held in the West Indies with Australia defeating Sri Lanka in the final
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- March 19
– The
first solar eclipse of the year 2007
is a partial solar eclipse occurring just 0.7 days before perigee, making it very large. The Moon covers 87.558% of the Sun. In this partial solar eclipse, the best visibility occurs at 61º02'55" N, 55º28'04" E. It is the 20th solar eclipse of
Solar Saros series 149
, at ascending node. The Sun is its zenith just 83 km south of the Equator, so the Northern Hemisphere was in winter and the Southern Hemisphere was in summer on March 19, 2007.
- March 23
– Naval forces of
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
arrest Royal Navy personnel
in disputed Iran-Iraq waters;
[18]
they were released on April 4.
[19]
- March 27
–
Latvian Prime Minister
Aigars Kalv?tis
and
Russian Prime Minister
Mikhail Fradkov
sign a border treaty between
Latvia
and Russia, officially demarcating the
border between the two
.
[20]
April
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- May 5
?
Kenya Airways Flight 507
, on a scheduled passenger flight from
Doula, Cameroon
, to
Nairobi, Kenya
, crashes after takeoff, killing all 114 crew and passengers on board.
[25]
[26]
- May 10
? As a result of factors including the
Blair-Brown pact
and falling approval ratings as a result of the Iraq War, British Prime Minister
Tony Blair
announces his intention to resign as
Leader of the Labour Party
and Prime Minister, triggering the
2007 Labour Party leadership election
, in which Chancellor
Gordon Brown
ran unopposed. Brown would officially replace Blair as Prime Minister on 27 June.
[27]
[28]
- May 10
?
12
? The
Eurovision Song Contest 2007
takes place in
Helsinki
,
Finland
, and is won by
Serbian
entrant
Marija ?erifovi?
with the song "
Molitva
".
- May 17
– The
Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
and the
Moscow Patriarchate
re-unite
after 80 years of schism.
[29]
- May 20
– Sheikh
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
of
Dubai
makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to
an educational foundation
in the Middle East.
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June
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- June 5
–
NASA
's
MESSENGER
spacecraft makes its second fly-by of
Venus
on route to
Mercury
.
- June 15
–
Bob Barker
hosts his final episode of
The Price Is Right
after 35 years of hosting.
- June 22
– The
2007 Ellie tornado
becomes the only F5 tornado recorded under the use of the
Fujita scale
in
Canada
, reaching windspeeds up to 320 mph (510 km/h).
- June 27
–
Gordon Brown
succeeds
Tony Blair
and becomes
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
after a
Leadership Election
- June 28
–
2007 European heat wave
: in the aftermath of Greece's worst
heat wave
in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from
heatstroke
, approximately 200
wildfires break out nationwide
, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
- June 29
– The
iPhone
, the first modern smartphone, is released in the
United States
. It was later released in the
United Kingdom
,
Ireland
,
France
,
Germany
, and
Austria
, in November 2007.
July
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August
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September
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October
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November
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December
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- December 1
? At the age of 81 years, 244 days,
Queen Elizabeth II
becomes the oldest ever reigning British monarch, surpassing
Queen Victoria
who was aged 81 years, 243 days upon her death on January 22, 1901.
- December 13
? The
Treaty of Lisbon
is signed by members states of European Union.
- December 20
? The
Pablo Picasso
painting
Portrait of Suzanne Bloch
, together with
Candido Portinari
's
O Lavrador de Cafe
, is stolen from the
Sao Paulo Museum of Art
.
[49]
- December 21
? The Czech Republic,
Estonia
, Hungary,
Latvia
,
Lithuania
,
Malta
, Poland,
Slovakia
, and
Slovenia
join the
Schengen
border-free zone.
[50]
- December 27
Unknown date
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- Mauritania
is the last country to criminalise slavery (officially "abolished" in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.
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Births and deaths
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Nobel Prizes
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New English words and terms
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