2007

2007 Time Line

January 1: Ban Ki-moon of South Korea succeeds Kofi Annan as new United Nations Secretary-General
January 4: Nancy Pelosi joins the U.S. House of Representatives as first female speaker of the house
January 4: General David Petraeus replaces General George Casey Jr. as head commander in Iraq War
January 9: Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc., announces release of the iPhone at the MacWorld Conference
January 10: President Bush announces intention to send 20,000 more troops to Iraq
January 30: Microsoft launches Windows Vista and Office 2007

February 2: Hu Jintao, president of China, forms economic pact with Sudan
February 3: Bird Flu detected in England
February 8: Anna Nicole Smith, former model and playmate, dies
February 10: Barack Obama announces run for U.S. presidential office
February 11: 49th Grammy Awards take place in Los Angeles, California
February 13: Kim Jong-Il of North Korea agrees to begin process of denuclearization
February 25: 79th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California is hosted by Ellen DeGeneres

March 1: International Polar Year to study earth's poles is launched in Paris
March 3: Full lunar eclipse
March 6: Mega Millions sets lottery jackpot record of $370 million
March 17: Chlorine bomb wounds hundreds in Baghdad, Iraq
March 31: Lights turned off for an hour in Sydney, Australia as statement for climate change awareness

April 3: Victor Yushchenko, president of Ukraine, dissolves Ukrainian Parliament
April 4: Iran announces release of captive British sailors
April 8: Zach Johnson wins 2007 Masters golf championship
April 12: Don Imus is fired by CBS for making racially insensitive comments towards the Rutgers women's basketball team
April 16: 32 people killed in Virginia Tech Shooting
April 24: Abortion legalized in Mexico City

June 6: G8 summit takes place
June 10: Tony Awards for Broadway theater takes place
June 27: Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister and is succeeded by Gordon Brown
June 29: Apple's iPhone released in U.S.

July 1: Hong Kong recognizes 10 year anniversary of Chinese rule
July 1: Smoking banned in public and work spaces in England
July 4: Sochi, Russia is chosen to be host city of 2014 Winter Olympics
July 4: BBC journalist Alan Johnston freed after 114 days in captivity of Palestinian abductors
July 7: Venus Williams wins 4th Wimbledon championship
July 17: Michael Vick, former quarterback for Atlanta Falcons, charged with operating a dogfighting ring
July 19: Prathiba Patil elected first female president of India

August 1: I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapses in Minneapolis, Minnesota
August 6: Ehud Olmert becomes first Israeli Prime Minister to visit West Bank in over 7 years
August 7: Barry Bonds hits 756th home run to beat Hank Aaron's record
August 9: Subprime mortgage crisis hits U.S. housing market
August 27: U.S. Attorney General announces plan to resign in September

September 10: General David Patraeus claims that U.S. will be able to reduce number of troops in Iraq from 160,000 to 130,000 by July 2008
September 12: Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister, announces plan to resign on September 19
September 12: Mikhail Fradkov, Russian Prime Minister, resigns
September 25: Halo 3 video game released by Microsoft
September 26: Yasuo Fukada assumes office as Japanese Prime Minister
September 26: In Myanmar, after weeks of protest from Buddhist Monks against the ruling dictatorship, some of the monks are arrested

October 2: Kim Jong-Il, North Korean leader, and Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean president, convene in Pyongyang for the first time in 7 years.
October 8: Marion Jones, 2000 Olympic track and field medalist, relinquishes her 5 medals after confessing to doping
October 25: First Airbus A380 takes flight
October 26: Apple launches Mac OS X (aka Leopard)
October 28: Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner becomes first female president of Argentina
October 28: Boston Red Sox beat Colorado Rockies in 4 games to win baseball World Series

November 3: President Pervez Musharraf declares state of emergency in Pakistan
November 5: Writers Guild of America strikes until February 12, 2008
November 24: Australian Labor Party head Kevin Rudd chosen to succeed John Howard as prime minister

December 3: United Nations climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia
December 10: Led Zeppelin reunites
December 19: Vladimir Putin, Russian President, is Time Magazine's 2007 Person of the Year
December 24: Nepalese government announces end of monarchy in 2008
December 27: Benazir Bhutto, former Pakistani prime minister, assassinated