This article is about the year 2007. For the album, see
2007 (album) .
Clockwise from top-left:Steve Jobs unveilsApple's firstiPhone ;TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into afilling station , killing almost 200 people; former PakistaniPrime Minister Benazir Bhutto isassassinated ; 2007 marked the beginning of theSubprime mortgage crisis in theUnited States ; asurge of troops is sent to fight in theIraq War ; theVirginia Tech community mourns the victims of theVirginia Tech shooting , in which 32 students were killed;Google Street View is unveiled to the world; theTreaty of Lisbon is signed by member states of theEuropean Union Calendar year
2007 (MMVII ) was acommon year starting on Monday of theGregorian calendar , the 2007th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 3rd millennium and the21st century , and the 8th year of the2000s decade.
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2007 by topic By international organization
2007 was designated as theInternational Heliophysical Year [ 1] International Polar Year .[ 2]
March 1 – The fourthInternational Polar Year , a $1.73 billion research program to study both theNorth Pole andSouth Pole , is launched in Paris.[ 14] March 3 – Atotal lunar eclipse occurs and is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. It is the 52nd lunar eclipse ofLunar 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 – TheFirst Ivorian Civil War ends with a peace agreement.March 11 –Georgia accusesthree Russian helicopters of firing on theKodori Gorge , then the only part of the break-away autonomous republic ofAbkhazia still under Georgian control.[ 15] March 13 –April 28 – The2007 Cricket World Cup is held in the West Indies with Australia defeating Sri Lanka in the final.[ 16] March 19 – Thefirst 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 ofSolar 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 ofIslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps arrest Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters;[ 17] [ 18] March 27 –Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvītis andRussian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov sign a border treaty betweenLatvia and Russia, officially demarcating theborder between the two .[ 19] May 3 – British three-year-oldMadeleine McCann disappears inPraia da Luz ,Lagos ,Portugal , described byThe Daily Telegraph missing-person case in modern history".[ 23] May 4 – The2007 Greensburg tornado moves throughKiowa County, Kansas , United States, striking the town ofGreensburg and killing eleven residents. 95% of the town was destroyed, and the tornado was the first to be ratedEF5 on theEnhanced Fujita scale .[ 24] [ 25] May 5 –Kenya Airways Flight 507 , on a scheduled passenger flight fromDoula, Cameroon , toNairobi, Kenya , crashes after takeoff, killing all 114 crew and passengers on board.[ 26] [ 27] May 6 –2007 French presidential election :Nicolas Sarkozy is electedPresident of France in the second round.[ 28] May 10 – As a result of factors including theBlair–Brown deal and falling approval ratings as a result of the Iraq War, British Prime MinisterTony Blair announces his intention to resign asLeader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister, triggering the2007 Labour Party leadership election , in which ChancellorGordon Brown ran unopposed. Brown would officially replace Blair as Prime Minister on 27 June.[ 29] [ 30] May 10 –12 – TheEurovision Song Contest 2007 takes place inHelsinki ,Finland , and is won bySerbian entrantMarija Šerifović with the song "Molitva ".May 11 –Malietoa Tanumafili II , thehead of state ofSamoa since its independence,dies in office at the age of 94. His death triggers thefirst election for the office of Samoan head of state.[ 31] May 17 – TheRussian Orthodox Church Abroad and theMoscow Patriarchate re-unite after 80 years of schism.[ 32] May 20 – SheikhMohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum ofDubai makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion toan educational foundation in the Middle East.[ 33] June 5 –NASA 'sMESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by ofVenus on route toMercury .June 10 –15 :Fatah-Hamas conflict : TheBattle of Gaza is fought betweenFatah andHamas , and ends with Hamas gaining control of theGaza Strip .June 15 –Bob Barker hosts his final episode ofThe Price Is Right June 22 – The2007 Ellie tornado becomes the only F5 tornado recorded under the use of theFujita scale inCanada , reaching windspeeds up to 320 mph (510 km/h).June 27 –Gordon Brown succeedsTony Blair and becomesPrime Minister of the United Kingdom after aleadership election .June 28 –2007 European heat wave : in the aftermath of Greece's worstheat wave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead fromheatstroke , approximately 200wildfires break out nationwide , and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.June 29 – TheiPhone , the first modern smartphone, is released in theUnited States . It will later be released in theUnited Kingdom ,Ireland ,France ,Germany , andAustria , in November 2007.December 1 – At the age of 81 years, 244 days,Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever reigning British monarch, surpassingQueen Victoria who was aged 81 years, 243 days upon her death on January 22, 1901.December 13 – TheTreaty of Lisbon is signed by members states of European Union.December 20 – ThePablo Picasso paintingPortrait of Suzanne Bloch Candido Portinari 'sO Lavrador de Café , is stolen from theSão Paulo Museum of Art .[ 53] December 21 – The Czech Republic,Estonia , Hungary,Latvia ,Lithuania ,Malta , Poland,Slovakia , andSlovenia join theSchengen border-free zone.[ 54] December 27 Mauritania is the last country to criminalise slavery (officially "abolished" in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.[ 57] New English words and terms [ edit ] ^ "International Heliophysical Year" . IHY. Archived fromthe original on November 25, 2005. 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