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2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
2007 was designated as:
- International Heliophysical Year.
- International Polar Year.
- European Year of Equal Opportunities for All.
- Year of Rumi.
- Year of the Dolphin.
- Scotland's Year of Highland Culture.
- Scouting Centenary, celebrating 100 years of the Scout Movement.
UNESCO has recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.
Events
January
- January 1
- Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
- Slovenia adopts the Euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar.
- South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new United Nations Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
- Smoking is banned in all public places in Hong Kong.
- Adam Air Flight 574, a routine domestic flight in Indonesia, disappears; debris is found 10 days later, but the aircraft remains missing.
- Angola joins OPEC.
- War in Somalia: Fighters of the Islamic Courts Union abandon their last stronghold in Kismayo and flee for the Kenyan border.
- January 2 – The new constitution of Gibraltar comes into force.
- January 3 – China conducts an anti-terror raid in Xinjiang.
- January 4 – Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
- January 5 – War in Somalia: The first shots are fired in the Battle of Ras Kamboni.
- January 8
- Daniel Ortega becomes President of Nicaragua for the second time.
- Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia-Belarus energy dispute escalates; they are restored 3 days later.
- January 9
- War in Somalia: U.S. planes conduct air strikes in Somalia against suspected terrorists.
- An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in Balad, Iraq; the Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down.
- Apple Inc. announces and introduces the highly speculated iPhone at the 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo.
- January 10 – President of the United States George W. Bush announces a plan to station 21,500 additional troops in Iraq.
- January 11
- In Bangladesh, a state of emergency is declared by caretaker President Iajuddin Ahmed, following weeks of violent protests preceding upcoming parliamentary elections.
- Vietnam joins the World Trade Organization as its 150th member.
- China successfully tests a ground-based ballistic missile capable of destroying satellites in orbit, drawing criticisms from other countries.
- January 12
- An Argentine judge issues a warrant for the arrest of former President Isabel Martínez de Perón, in connection with the disappearance of a human rights worker in 1976.
- The U.S. Embassy in Athens is attacked with a rocket propelled grenade, which causes minimal damage and no injuries.
- Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in more than 40 years, makes perihelion.
- January 13 – The Greek ship Server breaks in half off the Norwegian coast, releasing over 200 tons of crude oil.
- January 14 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement adopts the Red Crystal as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations.
- January 17
- Hurricane force winds from storm Kyrill claim at least 40 lives in western Europe.
- Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of Celebrity Big Brother, after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were allegedly racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
- The Doomsday Clock is advanced from 7 to 5 minutes to midnight.
- January 18
- Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to appear in more than 40 years, becomes visible over the Southern Hemisphere.
- The strongest storm in the UK in 17 years kills 14 people, and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
- January 19 – Israel releases $100 million in frozen assets to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority, in order to bolster the president's position.
- January 22 – A bombing in a market in Baghdad, Iraq kills 88 people.
- January 24 – The Israeli Ministry of Justice announces that the President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, will be charged with rape and abuse of power.
- January 25 – The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, takes a temporary leave of absence due to a sex scandal.
- January 28 – A battle between insurgents and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops kills 300 suspected resistance members in Najaf, Iraq.
- January 28 – February 4 – The 2007 Asian Winter Games are held in Changchun, China.
- January 30 – Microsoft releases Windows Vista and Office 2007.
- January 31
- The Venezuelan National Assembly gives President Hugo Chávez the power to rule by decree for 18 months.
- Delta Air Lines creditors reject US Airways' hostile takeover bid.
- The Mooninite scare occurs in Boston, when devices used in a guerrilla marketing campaign for the animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force are mistaken for improvised explosive devices.
February
- February 1 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair is questioned for a second time in the 'cash for peerages (Cash for Honours)' probe as a witness.
- February 2
- An unseasonal tornado in central Florida kills at least 20 people.
- Palestinian factional violence: Hamas and its rival Fatah renew their truce after violence broke out following the initial ceasefire.
- Chinese President Hu Jintao signs a series of economic deals with Sudan.
- War in Somalia: Eight people are killed in a mortar attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
- Martti Ahtisaari unveils a United Nations plan for the final status of Kosovo; Serbian leaders denounce the proposal.
- The IPCC publishes its fourth assessment report, having concluded that global climate change is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.
- February 3
- The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu is found at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk, England.
- A state of emergency is declared in Indonesia after 'El Nino'-like flooding.
- A truck bombing in a crowded Baghdad market kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339 others.
- February 11 – Portuguese voters agree to legalise abortion in a national referendum.
- February 12 – An armed gunman shoots and kills 5 people at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to 6.
- February 13
- North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.
- Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as Kuomintang party chairman after being indicted on charges of embezzlement; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
- February 22 – A large fire causes 26 fatalities in the "Reģi" care center in Alsunga, Latvia.
- February 25 – The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, is held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The Departed wins Best Picture.
- February 26 –
- The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.
- Estonia becomes the first country to hold general Internet elections.
- February 27
- The Chinese Correction: World stock markets plummet after China and Europe release less-than-expected growth reports.
- 2007 Bagram Air Base bombing: A Taliban suicide attack at Bagram Air Base while Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney is visiting kills 23, but he is not injured.
- February 28 – The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter, which changes its trajectory towards Pluto.
March
- March 1
- The International Polar Year, a $1.5 billion resea
2007 january libra
Phallus in Wonderland
For thousands of years, "phallocentric" myths have endured. Mary O'Connell takes us inside this world in part one of her award-winning documentary. Wednesday May 27 at midnight on CBC Radio One
