Tagagamit:Bluemask/In the news

2009-08

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• August 17: The bombing of a police headquarters in Nazran, Ingushetia, Russia kills 20 and injures 138.
• 100x100px|Sayano–Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station
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• August 16: At the 2009 World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Usain Bolt (pictured) of Jamaica sets new world records of 9.58 seconds for the 100 m sprint and 19.19 seconds for the 200 m sprint.
• August 16: In badminton, Lu Lan wins the women's singles and Lin Dan wins the men's singles at the 2009 BWF World Championships in Hyderabad, India.
• August 16: Y. E. Yang wins the 2009 PGA Championship, becoming the first Asian-born golfer to win a men's major golf championship.
• 100x100px|Kim Dae-jung
• 100x100px|Usain Bolt
• August 16: President of Mexico Felipe Calderón and President of Uruguay Tabaré Vázquez meet in Montevideo, Uruguay, to sign an accord worth $500 million.
• August 15: A suicide bomber attacks the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 7 and wounding 91.
• August 14: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani inaugurates Pakistan's first international container train from Islamabad to Istanbul. (Wikinews)
• August 14: Romania's deadliest road accident since 1994, a bus and train collision, kills at least 13 people in Scânteia, Iaşi County.
• August 14: The British government suspends the self-governance of the Turks and Caicos Islands for up to two years.
• August 13: Electric guitar innovator Les Paul dies at the age of 94.
• August 13: The discovery of exoplanet WASP-17b, the first planet known to have a retrograde orbit, is announced.
• 100x100px|Yousaf Raza Gillani
• August 12: Rafael Correa is sworn in for a second term as President of Ecuador.
• 100x100px|Les Paul
• August 12: After 15 years in hiding, Grégoire Ndahimana is arrested in North Kivu for the alleged murder of 6,000 Tutsi civilians during the Rwandan Genocide.
• August 12: A mine fire and explosion in Handlová, Trenčín Region, kills 20 people in Slovakia's deadliest mining disaster.
• August 8: A suicide bombing in Nouakchott, Mauritania, becomes the country's first and leads to a French government investigation.
• 100x100px|Rafael Correa
• August 8: Typhoon Morakot kills at least 94 people and leaves more than 10,000 missing in the Philippines, Taiwan and China.
• August 7: At least 14 people are killed in a series of shootouts between drug cartel suspects and police in the Mexican states of Guanajuato and Hidalgo.
• August 6: Thirteen years after the countries ceased diplomatic relations, President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda meet in Goma.
• August 6: The first successful captive breeding of the critically endangered Slender-billed Vulture is announced in India.
• 100x100px|Typhoon Morakot, taken over Taiwan on August 7, 2009
• August 6: Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, making her the first Hispanic American named to the position.
• August 5: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in as President of Iran for a second term amid protests.
• August 5: The MV Princess Ashika, an inter-island ferry operating in Tonga, sinks, leaving at least 26 people missing.
• August 5: North Korea pardons two imprisoned American journalists during a visit by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
• 100x100px|The Slender-billed Vulture, Gyps tenuirostris
• August 4: Three people are killed in a pneumonic plague outbreak in Ziketan Town, Qinghai, China.
• August 3: More than 180 people are killed and 30 others injured in nomadic conflicts in Sudan.
• 100x100px|Sonia Sotomayor
• August 3: Bolivia becomes the first country in South America to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
• August 2: A new strain of the human immunodeficiency virus is discovered in a woman from Cameroon.
• 100x100px|Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• August 2: Eight Christians are killed in religious unrest in Punjab, Pakistan, triggered by an alleged desecration of a Qur'an.
• August 1: At least two people are killed and 15 others injured in a shooting attack at the Gay and Lesbian Association building in Tel Aviv, Israel.

2009-07

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• Cory Aquino (1986 photo)

• July 31: Former President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino dies at the age of 76.
• July 31: Gazprom launches construction of the Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok natural gas pipeline.

• A scanning electron micrograph depicting a mass of Yersinia pestis bacteria
• Pervez Musharraf at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2008

• July 31: The Supreme Court of Pakistan finds that the emergency of November 2007 declared by former President Pervez Musharraf was illegal.
• July 30: In Spain, a series of bombing attacks in Burgos and Palma Nova kills at least two people and injures 50 others.

• The route of the SAT-3/WASC submarine communications cable

• July 30: The SAT-3 submarine communications cable is damaged, causing major disruption to Internet services in Benin, Niger, Nigeria and Togo.
• July 30: In Moldova's parliamentary election, the ruling Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova obtains a plurality but fails to gain a majority.

• Coat of Arms of Guinea-Bissau

• July 29: Malam Bacai Sanhá is elected President of Guinea-Bissau.
• July 28: São Tomé and Príncipe agrees a loan deal with Portugal to link the dobra to the euro.
• July 28: The United States and the People's Republic of China hold the first U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
• July 28: At least 15 Haitian migrants are killed and dozens are missing following a shipwreck in the Caribbean near the Turks and Caicos Islands.
• July 28: Abdelkader Belliraj, accused of leading an Islamist militant group, is sentenced to life in prison for plotting terrorist attacks in Morocco.

• Kurmanbek Bakiyev

• July 27: Kurmanbek Bakiyev is re-elected President of Kyrgyzstan.

• Alberto Contador

• July 26: In cycling, Alberto Contador of Spain wins the 2009 Tour de France.
• July 26: At least 150 people are killed during clashes between police and the militant group Boko Haram in several Nigerian states.
• July 26: India launches its first nuclear submarine INS Arihant, becoming the sixth country in the world to construct such a vessel.
• July 24: The birth of the world's first Giant Panda conceived using frozen sperm is announced in Sichuan, China.
• July 24: A series of wildfires across France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Turkey kills at least eight people.

• The Gran Telescopio at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Canary Islands

• July 24: The Gran Telescopio Canarias, the world's largest single optical telescope, is inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
• July 24: Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes on landing at Mashhad International Airport, Iran, killing at least 17 people.

• Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

• July 23: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is re-elected President of Indonesia.
• July 23: The SEACOM high speed internet link to East Africa goes live.

• Mark Buehrle

• July 23: Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitches the 18th perfect game in Major League Baseball history against the Tampa Bay Rays.
• July 22: The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague issues a decision on the borders of Abyei, a region subject to violent contention in Sudan.

• A photograph of the July 2009 partial solar eclipse seen from Quezon City, Philippines

• July 21: The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century takes place over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
• July 21: NASA confirms an impact event on Jupiter, the first observed since the impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994.
• July 19: In golf, American Stewart Cink wins the 2009 Open Championship (British Open) in a playoff over Tom Watson.
• July 19: At least 26 people are killed in floods in Karachi, Pakistan, and at least 49 others are killed in floods in the Indian states of Orissa and Kerala.

• Coat of arms of Gabon

• July 17: Paul Biyoghé Mba becomes Prime Minister of Gabon after Jean Eyeghe Ndong resigns to launch his presidential campaign.
• July 17: Bombings in Jakarta, Indonesia, kill at least nine people and injure at least 50 others.

• Coat of arms of Iceland

• July 16: In Iceland, after five days of debate, the Althing votes by a narrow majority to apply for membership of the European Union.
• July 16: The body of Russian human rights activist Natalia Estemirova is found in Ingushetia after her abduction in Chechnya.
• July 15: Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, a scheduled commercial flight from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia, crashes shortly after takeoff with 168 people on board.
• July 14: Jerzy Buzek, former Prime Minister of Poland, is elected the 28th President of the European Parliament, the first from the former Eastern Bloc to gain the position.
• July 13: Henry Okah, a guerrilla leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, is released from detention after accepting an amnesty offered by the Nigerian government.
• July 13: Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey sign an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline.
• July 12: A state of emergency is declared in 11 regions of Peru after more than 250 children die in an abnormally cold winter.
• July 12: Javier Velásquez becomes Prime Minister of Peru.
• July 12: At least 43 people are killed in clashes near the Somali presidential palace between Al-Shabaab and the Somali military.

• Lightning strikes Space Shuttle Endeavour's Launch Complex 39A on July 11, 2009 during a thunderstorm event.

• July 11: The launch of {{OV|105:, carrying astronauts on the STS-127 mission, is delayed after its launch pad area was struck by lightning at least 11 times (pictured).
• July 12: At least 23 police officers are killed in an ambush attack by Maoist rebels, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
• July 9: A series of organized cyber attacks strikes major public and private sector websites of South Korea and the United States.

• Natural gas compressor station near Weiherhammer, Germany

• July 8: The European Commission imposes its second largest fine ever, levying energy companies GDF Suez and E.ON €553 million each over arrangements on the MEGAL pipeline.
• July 8: The discovery of Urspelerpes brucei, a new species of lungless salamander, in the U.S. state of Georgia is announced.
• July 7: Frank Kabui becomes the Governor General of the Solomon Islands.
• July 7: In the Philippines, a series of bomb attacks in Cotabato, Jolo and Iligan kills eight people and injures at least 66 others.

• Boyko Borisov

• July 7: Centre-right party GERB wins the parliamentary election in Bulgaria.
• July 7: Al Franken is sworn in as a United States senator, giving the Democratic Party Caucus a supermajority of 60 seats in the Senate.
• July 6: Jadranka Kosor becomes the first female Prime Minister of Croatia.
• July 5: At least 156 people are killed and 1,080 others injured during riots in Ürümqi, People's Republic of China.

• Roger Federer

• July 5: In tennis, Roger Federer wins the men's singles title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships, surpassing Pete Sampras' Grand Slam record.

• Flag of Honduras

• July 5: The Organization of American States suspends Honduras due to the country's recent political crisis
• July 5: In rugby union, South Africa win the 2009 Test series against the British and Irish Lions 2–1.

• Silhouette of Australovenator wintonensis gen. et sp. nov. (QMF 7292) showing the material of the holotype

• July 3: The discovery of three fossilised dinosaur genera—Australovenator, Diamantinasaurus and Wintonotitan—in Australia is announced.
• July 3: A Mil Mi-17 helicopter of the Pakistan Army crashes in the North-West Frontier Province, killing at least 26 people.
• July 3: Algeria, Niger and Nigeria sign an intergovernmental agreement on the Trans-Saharan gas pipeline.

• Flag of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

• July 2: Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano is elected as Director General for the International Atomic Energy Agency.
• July 2: North Korea test-fires four cruise missiles and seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast, in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874.

• Fredrik Reinfeldt

• July 1: Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt becomes President of the European Council.
• July 1: TerreStar-1, the largest commercial telecommunication satellite ever built, is launched from the Guiana Space Centre.

• This patient presented with Brucellosis, which is also known as "Malta fever" and "undulant fever".

• July 1: The Government of Ireland declares that brucellosis has been eradicated from the country.
• July 1: Ivo Sanader announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Croatia and withdraws from active politics.

• ASTER image draped over terrain model

• July 1: The ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model, the most comprehensive digital elevation model of the Earth's surface, is released.

2009-06

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• June 30: The Dubai-based supply ship MV Demas Victory capsizes off the coast of Doha, Qatar, with 35 people on board.
• June 30: The Gas Exporting Countries Forum elects Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, the oil and energy minister of Qatar, as the president of the organization.
• June 30: In Argentina's legislative election, the Front for Victory, the ruling party led by President Cristina Kirchner, loses absolute majority in congress, but retains a plurality of the seats.

• Paul Biya

• June 30: President of Cameroon Paul Biya dismisses Prime Minister Ephraïm Inoni and appoints Philémon Yang to the office.
• June 30: The Preparatory Commission for the International Renewable Energy Agency designates Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, as the headquarters of the organization.

• Fire following Viareggio train derailment

• June 30: A freight train carrying liquefied petroleum gas derails and explodes in Viareggio, Italy, killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 35 others.
• June 30: The Taliban withdraws from a peace deal with the Government of Pakistan, killing approximately 30 Pakistani soldiers shortly after making the announcement.
• June 30: Yemenia Flight 626, en route to Moroni, Comoros, crashes with 153 people aboard.
• June 29: Iran's Guardian Council declares itself the final authority on the recent controversial election, certifying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President.
• June 28: At least 13 people are killed in the Czech Republic and Poland by floods, which have also impacted Austria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.
• June 28: The 2008–09 Volvo Ocean Race concludes in Saint Petersburg, Russia, with Sweden's Ericsson 4 team winning the overall competition.
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2008-11

• November 1: The Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia reports conclusive evidence of human involvement in the warming of Antarctica.

2008-10

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• October 30: A series of bomb blasts in Assam, India kills at least 77 and injures 470.
• October 29: Viswanathan Anand of India defeats Russia's Vladimir Kramnik, retaining his title as the World Chess Champion.
• October 29: After four days of heavy fighting with United Nations peacekeeping forces in Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, rebel general Laurent Nkunda orders a ceasefire.
• October 29: In baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the 2008 World Series.
• October 29: Coordinated suicide bombings kill 56 in Hargeisa and Bosaso, Somalia.
• October 29: A 6.4 M_w earthquake kills 215 in Balochistan, Pakistan.
• October 29: Mohamed Nasheed wins the Maldives' first democratic presidential election, unseating incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
• October 28: United Nations peacekeeping forces engage in heavy fighting with rebel forces led by Laurent Nkunda in Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• October 26: United States Special Forces enter Syrian territory from Iraq to carry out a cross-border raid near Abu Kamal.
• October 26: Kadima leader Tzipi Livni (pictured) calls for early elections in Israel following a failed attempt at forming a coalition government.
• October 25: Severe flooding in Yemen caused by Deep Depression ARB 02 kills 180 and displaces 20,000.
  • Remnants of hurricane ARB 02 over Yemen
• October 23: A bomb attack in Zagreb, Croatia kills Ivo Pukanic, the owner of the newspaper Nacional.
• October 22: The Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launches Chandrayaan-1, an unmanned lunar exploration mission.
• October 21: A bomb blast in Imphal, India kills 17 and injures more than 30.
• October 18: Several additional amino acids are found in vials from the 1953 Miller–Urey experiment that probed the origin of life.
• October 18: The United Nations General Assembly elects Turkey, Austria, Japan, Uganda, and Mexico to two-year terms on the Security Council.
• October 18: India's Sachin Tendulkar becomes the leading scorer in Test cricket and the first to pass 12,000 Test runs.
• October 16: Ilham Aliyev is re-elected president of Azerbaijan.
• October 15: Indian writer Aravind Adiga wins the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, The White Tiger.
• October 15: The 2008 Canadian elections result in a second minority government for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party.
• October 13: U.S. economist Paul Krugman wins the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
• October 12: Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, a nun from Kerala, becomes India's first female saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
• October 11: A 5.8 M_w earthquake kills 13 in Chechnya, Russia.
• October 11: Iceland faces a major financial crisis affecting all three major banks of the country.
• October 10: Martti Ahtisaari, a former President of Finland and a United Nations diplomat, wins the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.
• October 9: With no candidate winning a majority in the first democratic presidential election in the Maldives, the incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and Mohamed Nasheed move on to a second-round runoff.
• October 9: Franco-Mauritian Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio wins the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• October 8: Voters go to the polls in the Maldivian presidential election, the first democratic elections held in the Maldives, with six candidates including incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
• October 8: The British Government announces details of a financial rescue package aimed at stabilizing and restoring confidence in the British banking sector.
• October 8: Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien win the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein.
• October 7: The meteoroid 2008 TC₃ burns up in Earth's atmosphere, becoming the first such object to be discovered prior to impact.
• October 7: Yoichiro Nambu, who discovered the mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking in subatomic physics, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, who discovered the origin of the broken symmetry, win the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• October 6: Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, and Harald zur Hausen, who discovered that human papilloma viruses can cause cervical cancer in women, are announced as winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• October 1: President George W. Bush of the United States signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law after passage in the Congress.
• October 1: Fifty Somali pirates capture the Ukrainian cargo ship MV Faina, along with its cargo of weapons and ammunition, and 33 T-72 tanks.

2008-09

• September 30: A stampede in Jodhpur, India, at the beginning of Navratri, kills 113 and injures more than 250.
• September 29: Floods caused by Typhoon Hagupit cause at least 67 deaths, including 41 in Vietnam.
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2008-06

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  • June 10: Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes on landing at Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum, Sudan, killing dozens.
  • June 9: IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory break a processing speed record with the world's first petaflop computer, Roadrunner (pictured).
  • June 9: Following a coal mine collapse in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, 24 miners are rescued with 12 still missing and one reported dead.
  • June 8: Seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
  • June 8: The government of Southern Sudan withdraws its mediation efforts at the Juba talks between Uganda and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army.
  • June 7: In tennis, Rafael Nadal and Ana Ivanović win the singles titles in the 2008 French Open.
  • June 6: The Diet of Japan recognizes the Ainu as an indigenous people for the first time.
• June 5: Israeli minister Shaul Mofaz threatens an attack on Iran's nuclear program.
• June 5: Turkey's Constitutional Court reinstates a ban on the hijab in universities, citing the constitution's secular principles.
• 100x100px|Uganda rebel leader Joseph Kony
• June 5: In ice hockey, the Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup by defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins in six games in the 2008 Finals.
• June 4: Zimbabwean police briefly detain foreign diplomats and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai before the second round of the presidential election.
• 100x100px|Rafael Nadal
• June 3: Senator Barack Obama secures the Democratic Party nomination in the U.S. Presidential campaign, the first African American ever to do so.
• 100x100px|Ana Ivanović
• 100x100px|Photograph of Ainu Man from 1880
• June 2: The United Nations Security Council unanimously passes a declaration allowing foreign naval vessels to enter Somali territorial waters to deal with pirates.
• June 2: A car bomb explodes outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing at least five.
• 100x100px|Turkish woman wearing a hijab in Kalkan market
• 80px|Stanley Cup Most Valuable Player Henrik Zetterberg
• June 1: The Australian Army ends its combat role in Iraq, as about 500 troops withdraw from Nasiriyah.
• 80px|Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai
• June 1: In the Republic of Macedonia, the governing Christian democratic VMRO–DPMNE wins a landslide victory in parliamentary elections amid reports of violence in ethnic Albanian areas.
• June 1: Usain Bolt of Jamaica sets a new world record in the 100 metre sprint of 9.72 seconds at the Reebok Grand Prix in New York.
• June 1: In rugby union, the Crusaders defeat the New South Wales Waratahs in the 2008 Super 14 Final.
• 80px|Portrait of U.S. Senator Barack Obama

2008-05

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• May 31: Space Shuttle mission STS-124 launches, carrying the Japanese laboratory Kibō's main module for the International Space Station.
• May 30: Grupo TACA Flight 390, an Airbus A320 flying from San Salvador, El Salvador, crashes in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
• 100x100px|Usain Bolt at the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka
• May 30: Former Croatian Army general Mirko Norac is sentenced by a Croatian court to seven years in prison for his role in the 1993 Operation Medak Pocket.
• May 29: China begins inspecting the ruins of thousands of schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake, searching for clues about why they crumbled.
• 100x100px|Model of Materpiscis on display at Museum Victoria, Australia
• 100x100px|ISS Kibo module
• May 29: Snowstorms in eastern Mongolia kill 26 people; 51 people remain missing.
• May 28: In Dublin, over 100 countries adopt the Convention on Cluster Munitions banning cluster bombs.
• 100x100px|Pineapple cluster bomblet
• May 28: Paleontologists discover Materpiscis (model pictured), a 380-million-year-old placoderm fish which is the earliest known animal to bear live young.
• May 28: Nepal is declared a republic by its newly elected government, and King Gyanendra ends his reign as the last of a 240-year-old monarchy.
• May 27: In the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake, the People's Republic of China evacuates 100,000 people from Mianyang as engineers prepare to drain the landslide dam-created Tangjiashan Lake.
• 100x100px|Pineapple cluster bomblet
• May 27: The State Peace and Development Council of Burma extends opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest by one year.
• May 26: An earthquake in Colombia kills 11 and seriously injures 54.
• May 26: The BJP will lead the government by itself after elections in the Indian state of Karnataka, a first in South Indian political history.
• May 26: Ethiopia's Supreme Court upholds former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam's conviction and sentences him to death in absentia for his role in the Red Terror.
• May 26: NASA's Phoenix lands on Mars, the first successful powered descent on the planet in over 30 years.
• 100x100px|An American B-1B Lancer drops cluster munitions
• May 25: In auto racing, Scott Dixon wins the Indianapolis 500 and Lewis Hamilton wins the Monaco Grand Prix.
• May 25: The Lebanese Parliament elects General Michel Sleiman, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, to the six-month-vacant post of president.
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October 2007

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• Oct 12: The Chinese government announces that, due to environmental conditions, four million people will be relocated away from areas surrounding the Three Gorges Dam.
• Oct 12: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore (pictured) share the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
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• Oct 11: Turkey recalls its ambassador to the United States, after the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs passes a resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
• Oct 11: British writer Doris Lessing wins the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Oct 10: A Soyuz-TMA spacecraft carrying Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, the first Malaysian astronaut, is launched for a mission to the International Space Station.
• Oct 10: Gerhard Ertl wins the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces.
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September 2007

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  • September 27: The Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague sentences Mile Mrkšić and Veselin Šljivančanin to 20 and 5 years in prison, respectively, for their involvement in the 1991 Vukovar massacre.
  • September 27: The Can Tho Bridge in Vietnam collapses, killing dozens of construction workers.
  • September 27: Japanese photojournalist Kenji Nagai is killed in protests (pictured) involving thousands of Buddhist monks in Myanmar (Burma).
  • September 25: India's cricket team wins the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 held in South Africa after beating Pakistan in the last over.
  • September 23: Yasuo Fukuda wins the LDP leadership election, and is sworn in by Emperor Akihito as Prime Minister of Japan.
• September 22: Chile extradites former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori on charges of human rights abuses and corruption.
• September 20: The American Arbitration Association finds American cyclist Floyd Landis (pictured) guilty of using synthetic testosterone in his 2006 Tour de France victory. The International Cycling Union awards the title to Óscar Pereiro of Spain.
  • Image:Floyd-landis-toctt.jpg American cyclist Floyd Landis
• September 19: King Mohammed VI appoints Abbas El Fassi of the Istiqlal Party as Prime Minister of Morocco.
• September 18: Several hundred villagers in southern Peru fall ill after the impact of a meteorite.
• September 16: The New Democracy party of Greece, led by Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis (pictured), wins the general elections with a marginal parliamentary majority, while the opposition PASOK announce party leadership elections.
  • Image:Kostas Karamanlis.jpg Prime Minister of Greece Costas Karamanlis
• September 16: One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 crashes at Phuket International Airport, Thailand, killing 89 people.
• September 15: The European Space Agency announces that melting pack ice in the Arctic Ocean has opened the Northwest Passage.
• September 15: Scottish World Rally Championship driver Colin McRae is killed when his AS350B2 Squirrel helicopter crashes.
• September 14: The Japanese spacecraft SELENE (artist's impression shown) is launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on a mission to explore the Moon.
  • 100x100px|An artist's impression of SELENE
• September 13: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a non-binding Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples intended to combat human rights violations against 370 million members of indigenous peoples worldwide.
• September 13: The FIA fines McLaren 100 million USD and excludes the Formula One auto racing team from the 2007 Constructors' Championship for its role in an espionage controversy.
  • 100x100px|Fernando Alonso (McLaren)
• September 13: Viktor Zubkov replaces Mikhail Fradkov as the Prime Minister of Russia after the State Duma approves his nomination by President Vladimir Putin.
• September 12: Former President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada (pictured), removed from office in the EDSA Revolution of 2001, is found guilty of corruption and sentenced to reclusión perpetua.
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• September 12: Multiple major earthquakes occur off the southwest coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, with the largest having a magnitude of 8.4.
• September 12: Shinzo Abe (pictured) announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Japan, effective 19 September, triggering a leadership election.
  • 100x100px|Shinzo Abe
• September 12: President Vladimir Putin of Russia accepts Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov's resignation and nominates Viktor Zubkov as his replacement.
• September 9: Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell (pictured right, in yellow) sets a new 100-metre world record of 9.74 seconds at the IAAF Grand Prix in Rieti, Italy.
  • Image:Osaka07 D1M M100M Heat Astafa Powell.jpg Asafa Powell, pictured at the 2007 World Athletics Championships in Osaka
• September 9: The APEC summit in Australia closes following discussions and meetings among various world leaders.
• September 8: The 2007 Pacific Games, involving 5000 athletes from 22 nations, close in Apia, Samoa.
• September 7: The Lebanese Army declares victory after ending its most recent conflict with Fatah al-Islam militants in Nahr al-Bared.
• September 8: At least 16 people are killed in a car bomb attack on an Algerian naval barracks in the town of Dellys two days after a suicide bomber killed at least 20 in Batna.
• September 4: Hurricane Felix makes landfall on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast as a Category 5 hurricane, which has since dissipated.
• September 3: Hurricane Felix becomes a Category 5 hurricane in the Caribbean Sea, becoming the second storm of that strength in the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season.
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• September 1: Idaho Republican Larry Craig resigns from the United States Senate effective 30 September following a guilty plea to a disorderly conduct charge following his arrest in a restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

August 2007

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• August 30: The Taliban release the remaining South Korean hostages in return for South Korea withdrawing its 200 non-combat troops within the year and suspending missionary work in Afghanistan.
• August 28: Abdullah Gül (pictured) is elected as the eleventh President of Turkey by the Turkish Parliament, after secularist concerns delayed his initial candidacy.
  • Image:Abdullah Gül (Brasília, 19.1.2005).jpeg Abdullah Gül
• August 27: United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announces his resignation, after several controversies over his actions.
• August 25: Twin bombings kill more than forty people in Hyderabad, India, and nineteen unexploded bombs are found throughout the city.
• August 25: Ongoing floods (washed-out bridge pictured) in the midwestern United States claim at least twenty-six lives.
  • 100x100px|A washed-out bridge on Minnesota State Highway 74
• August 25: Greece declares a state of emergency as forest fires kill more than sixty people.
• August 25: Twin bombings kill more than forty people in Hyderabad, India, and nineteen unexploded bombs are found throughout the city.
• August 23: A ten-million-year-old fossil ape found in Ethiopia, Chororapithecus abyssinicus, may prove that the last common ancestor of gorillas and humans existed two million years earlier than previously thought.
• August 21: The Space Shuttle Endeavour safely returns from a mission to expand the International Space Station.
• August 19: Tropical cyclones: Hurricane Dean makes a second landfall near Tecolutla, Mexico after moving across the Yucatán Peninsula, while Typhoon Sepat moves across Taiwan and makes a second landfall in Fujian.
  • 100x100px|Hurricane Dean hitting the Yucatán Peninsula
• August 17: Hurricane Dean (pictured) enters the Caribbean Sea, intensifying into a Category 4 hurricane as it approaches Jamaica.
• August 16: NASA opts not to repair damaged thermal protective tiles on the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour, currently on a mission to expand the International Space Station.
  • 100x100px|Damaged TPS Tiles of Space Shuttle Endeavour
• August 15: The heaviest rainfall in 40 years causes massive flooding in North Korea that kills 200 and destroys 11% of the country's rice and corn fields.
• August 15: An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru, killing more than 500 and flattening more than 85,000 buildings.
• August 14: Four near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks in Kahtaniya, Iraq result in at least 550 deaths and another 1500 injuries; most of the victims belonged to the minority Yazidi religion.
• August 13: Yone Minagawa of Japan dies at 114, making Edna Parker of the United States, 106 days younger, the oldest living person in the world.
• August 10: Thermal protective tiles on the underside of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour, currently docked with the International Space Station for mission STS-118, are found to be damaged (pictured).
• August 9: The European Central Bank injects more than €150 billion of liquidity into the European financial system in two days, as stock markets worldwide slide in response to the United States subprime mortgage financial crisis.
• August 9: The Labour Party and its allies win a majority in the National Assembly of the Republic of the Congo.
• August 8: NASA launches Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour (pictured), carrying Barbara Morgan, the first Educator Astronaut in space, and six other astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station.
  • Image:STS-118 launch.jpg Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour for Mission STS-118
• August 8: Amid protests from FRETILIN, who have won the most seats in the recent parliamentary election, Xanana Gusmão (pictured) of the CNRT takes office as Prime Minister of East Timor.
  • 100x100px|Xanana Gusmão, the new Prime Minister of East Timor
• August 7: Two Russian aircraft are accused of violating Georgian airspace, with one firing an air-to-surface guided rocket onto Georgian territory, some 65 km north of Tbilisi.
• August 7: Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run, passing Hank Aaron for the career home run record in Major League Baseball.
• August 4: An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom prompts the banning of exports of livestock and other animal products from Great Britain.
• August 4: NASA launches the Phoenix spacecraft on a Delta II rocket, beginning a mission to Mars.
  • broken: Image:Phoenix Launch 2007Aug04 (KSC-07PD-2175) cropped.JPG Launch of the Phoenix spacecraft aboard a Delta II rocket
• August 3: Patriarch Teoctist I of the Romanian Orthodox Church dies of surgical complications after an operation for prostate adenoma and is buried in Bucharest.
• August 2: Russian MIR bathyscaphes perform the first crewed descent to the seabed at the North Pole in a bid to strengthen the claim for an extension of Russia's continental shelf.
• August 1: A series of floods on the Indian subcontinent leaves more than 2000 people dead and 20 million homeless, with the Gangetic plain in India and its delta in Bangladesh being the worst affected areas.
• August 1: A highway bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, collapses, sending more than fifty vehicles into the Mississippi River.
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July 2007

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• July 31: The UN Security Council approves Resolution 1769, which calls for a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Darfur region in Sudan.
• Image:EinoViljamiPanula.jpg Memorial for the Unknown Child of the RMS Titanic, Fairview Cemetary, Halifax, NS, Canada
• July 30: "The Unknown Child", whose remains were recovered after the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, is identified as Sidney Leslie Goodwin.
• July 31: A second South Korean aid worker taken hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan is confirmed dead.
• July 30: Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffers a major defeat in elections to the House of Councillors.
• Image:Alberto Contador Paris-Nice 2007.jpg Alberto Contador
• July 29: Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador wins the 2007 Tour de France, which was largely overshadowed by several doping controversies.
• Image:Pratibha Patil 2.jpg Pratibha Patil
• July 26: Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's thirteenth president and the first woman to occupy the post.
• July 25: The People's Democratic Movement (RPDC) wins the Cameroonian general election, retaining its majority in the National Assembly.
• July 24: A Palestinian medical intern and five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in the HIV trial in Libya on charges of causing an outbreak of HIV are freed after a deal is reached with the European Union.
• July 23: A major tenth-century Viking hoard is discovered near Harrogate in northern England.
• 100x100px|Michael Rasmussen (left) and Alexander Vinokourov (right)
• July 25: Cyclists Michael Rasmussen, Alexander Vinokourov and Cristian Moreni and the cycling teams of Astana and Cofidis are removed from the 2007 Tour de France amidst separate doping controversies.
• July 23: Heavy rains create widespread flooding in the United Kingdom, leading to the Royal Air Force's largest peacetime rescue operation.
• July 23: The Justice and Development Party (AKP) wins the 2007 Turkish general election, securing a large majority in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
• July 22: Pádraig Harrington defeats Sergio García in a playoff to win golf's 2007 Open Championship.
• Image:Burj.jpg Burj Dubai under construction
• July 21: The Burj Dubai (pictured) becomes the world's tallest high-rise building at 512.1 metres (1,680.1 feet), surpassing Taipei 101.
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May 2007

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  • The Venezuelan government shuts down the private television network Radio Caracas Television and replaces it with the state-sponsored channel TVes.
  • In the Irish general election, Fianna Fáil under Taoiseach Bertie Ahern (pictured) win the most seats, but their Progressive Democrat coalition partners collapse.
  • A.C. Milan win the UEFA Champions League, defeating Liverpool F.C. 2-1 in the final.
  • Fighting between the Lebanese Armed Forces and Fatah al-Islam breaks out near Tripoli and Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon.
  • The Cutty Sark, a 19th-century clipper and museum ship at Greenwich in London, is extensively damaged by fire while undergoing restoration.
  • About 500,000 silver and gold coins are retrieved from a 17th-century shipwreck off the coast of Cornwall, South West England.
• The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, established abroad after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, is formally reunited with the Russian Orthodox Church.
• Paul Wolfowitz announces his resignation from the Presidency of the World Bank Group following allegations of ethics violations involving Shaha Riza.
• right|100x100px|Cutty Sark, 2005 photo
• The 2007 FA Cup Final concludes with Chelsea Football Club defeating Manchester United 1-0 (aet) at the newly rebuilt Wembley Stadium.
• right|100x100px|Paul Wolfowitz
• François Fillon is appointed Prime Minister of France by newly inaugurated President and fellow Union for a Popular Movement member Nicolas Sarkozy.
• The death toll for violence associated with the general election in the Philippines reaches 126.
• At least one million people gather in İzmir for the fifth mass rally to demand that Turkey remain a secular state.
• Afghan officials report the death of Mullah Dadullah, a Taliban military commander in southern Afghanistan killed in a battle with the coalition forces in Helmand.
• In Karachi, Pakistan, a political rally organised by the MQM before an address by suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry turns into a violent riot, resulting in more than 50 deaths and 800 arrests.
• Singer Marija Šerifović of Serbia wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "Molitva".
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• Samoan monarch Malietoa Tanumafili II dies aged 94; the constitution stipulates that Samoa now become a republic with the office of O le Ao o le Malo becoming a ceremonial presidency with a five-year term.
• José Ramos Horta defeats FRETILIN candidate Francisco Guterres to win the presidential election in East Timor.
• British Prime Minister Tony Blair announces he will leave office on June 27, once the Labour Party has elected a successor.
• The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season begins early with the formation of Subtropical Storm Andrea off the Southeast U.S. coast.
• Six men are arrested for allegedly conspiring to attack soldiers at the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, USA.
• The suspension of the Northern Ireland Assembly ends after four and a half years, restoring home rule in Northern Ireland.
• 100x100px|right|José Ramos Horta. Photo credit:Elza Fiúza/ABr
• NASA announces the discovery of SN 2006gy, a supernova with the largest absolute brightness ever recorded.
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• A tomb believed to be that of Herod I, King of Judaea from 37 to 4 BCE, is discovered at Herodium, near Jerusalem.
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• 100x100px|right|Northern Ireland Parliament Buildings at Stormont
• UMP candidate Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France, defeating Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal.
• Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes soon after taking off from Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 people on board.
• 100x100px|right|Nicolas Sarkozy
• 100x100px|right|SN 2006gy, NASA illustration
• The Scottish National Party surpasses the Labour Party and wins a plurality in the Scottish Parliament for the first time. Labour also suffers losses in elections to the Welsh Assembly and to local councils in England and Scotland.
• The Winograd Commission criticizes the Israeli government for mishandling the 2006 Lebanon war, prompting protests in Tel Aviv and calls for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz to resign.
• The Ulster Volunteer Force, a loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, renounces the use of force.
• A violent siege of the Estonian embassy in Moscow continues in response to the removal of the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn.
• 100x100px|right|Debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament
• Exit polls indicate that Nicolas Sarkozy (pictured) has won the runoff poll in the French presidential election with 53–55% of the vote, beating socialist Segolène Royal.
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March 2007

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  • March 22: Jamaican police announce that they are now treating the death of the Pakistan cricket team's coach Bob Woolmer (pictured) during the ongoing 2007 Cricket World Cup as a case of murder.
  • March 20: More than one hundred coal miners are confirmed dead in the Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster, Russia's worst mining accident in a decade.
  • March 18: Results of Finland's elections show the opposition gaining ground but incumbent Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen likely to remain in office.
  • March 16: The People's Republic of China adopts its first law regulating property ownership.
  • March 14: The World Wide Fund for Nature announces that the Bornean Clouded Leopard is a new species.
  • March 14 The beating and detention of Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai prompts renewed international condemnation of President Robert Mugabe's regime.
• March 14: The British House of Commons votes to renew the Trident missile system.
• The Cassini spacecraft images several sea-sized bodies of liquid on Saturn's moon Titan.
• Image:Matti Vanhanen, G8 summit.jpg Matti Vanhanen, Finnish prime minister
• March 18: UT Air Flight 471 crashes during an emergency landing at Samara Kurumoch Airport, Russia, killing at least seven people.
• March 10: According to The Pentagon's released transcript, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed states he helped plan more than two dozen acts of terrorism, including the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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• Image:Khalid-cropped.jpg Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
• March 11: Jacques Chirac, President of France since 1995, announces that he will not seek a third term of office in the upcoming presidential election.
• Image:President Chirac (cropped).jpg Jacques Chirac
• March 13: The Climate Change Bill, a proposed new law aiming to reduce carbon emission in the United Kingdom, is published.
• March 9: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf suspends Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on charges of misuse of authority.
• The Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin make gains in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, ensuring that in order for direct rule to cease, both parties must agree to cooperate in a powersharing Executive.
• March 7: Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes upon landing in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing at least 22 people.
• March 6: Lewis "Scooter" Libby former chief of staff to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, is convicted on four of five felony counts in connection with the Plame affair.
• March 5: In Estonia, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip's Reform Party wins a plurality in the parliamentary elections.
• March 2: Riots break out in Nørrebro, Copenhagen following the eviction of squatters from Ungdomshuset by Danish police.
• Image:Scooter Libby crop.jpg Lewis "Scooter" Libby
• March 2: Pakistani authorities report the capture of Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, the most senior Taliban official captured since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
• March 2: A scandal over unsanitary conditions at the United States Army's Walter Reed Medical Center prompts the departure of Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey.

Pebrero 2007

• February 27: Abdoulaye Wade is re-elected as President of Senegal.
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• February 27 Abdoulaye Wade is re-elected as President of Senegal.
• Image:Ungdomshuset M-cropped.jpg Ungdomshuset
• February 26: The International Court of Justice finds Serbia not guilty of committing genocide in Bosnia, but finds that it failed to prevent the genocide in Srebrenica and violated its international obligations by not handing over individuals accused of the crime.
• February 24/28: Prime Minister Romano Prodi and his government win a confidence vote in the Italian Senate, allowing them to continue in office.
• February 25: The Departed wins four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Directing, giving director Martin Scorsese his first Academy Award.
• February 24: Cyclone Favio makes landfall in Mozambique and is expected to worsen flooding in the Zambezi River valley.
• February 22: A plan to withdraw 1,600 British troops from the multinational force in Iraq is announced.
• February 22: In the Netherlands, the fourth Balkenende cabinet is sworn in by Queen Beatrix.
• Image:Scorsese-MainPage.jpg Academy Award in Directing winner Martin Scorsese, in 2002.
• February 19: Sixty-eight people are killed in bombings on the Samjhauta Express train traveling between India and Pakistan.
• February 17: A Turkish court gives life sentences to seven al-Qaeda associates for their involvement in the 2003 Istanbul bombings.
• Image:RomanoProdi cropped 2june2006 049.jpg Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi
• Image:Tony Blair.jpg Tony Blair
• February 17: The U.S. House of Representatives passes a non-binding resolution opposing President George W. Bush's troop surge plan for the Iraq War
• February 17: The general strike in Guinea resumes; President Lansana Conté places the country under martial law and an eighteen-hour-a-day curfew.
• February 15: A major winter storm affects much of the eastern half of North America, killing at least thirty-five people.
• February 14: Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow is declared the winner of the presidential elections in Turkmenistan and sworn in immediately afterwards; the International Crisis Group states that the elections are "blatantly falsified".
• February 13: In the six-party talks, North Korea agrees to shut down the Yongbyon nuclear reactor in exchange for fuel aid and steps towards normalization of relations with the United States and Japan.
• February 12: The 49th Annual Grammy Awards take place in Los Angeles, California.
• February 12: A court in Stuttgart rules that former Red Army Faction member Brigitte Mohnhaupt is to be paroled from prison almost thirty years after the German Autumn.
• February 12: The 49th Annual Grammy Awards take place in Los Angeles, California.
• February 12: A court in Stuttgart rules that former Red Army Faction member Brigitte Mohnhaupt is to be paroled from prison almost 30 years after the German Autumn.
• February 11: Swede Anja Pärson becomes the first alpine skier in history to have World Ski Championship gold medals in all five disciplines.
• February 7: Following two months of negotiations a coalition agreement is reached in the Netherlands.
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• February 7: In the United Kingdom, the seventh letter bomb attack in three weeks occurs at the DVLA headquarters in Wales.
• February 3: At least 132 people are killed and 339 injured in a truck bombing at a marketplace in Baghdad.
• February 2: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that there is more than a 90% chance that global warming has a human cause.
• February 2: The Italian Football Federation temporarily cancels all football-related events after match-related violence in Catania, Italy.
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• February 5: The Indianapolis Colts defeat the Chicago Bears 29 to 17 in Super Bowl XLI.
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January 2007

• January 30: Nearly three hundred people are killed during a battle between insurgents and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops in the Shi'a holy city of Najaf.
• Image:Dolphinsmiamistadm.png Dolphin Stadium
• January 30: Nearly three hundred people are killed during a battle between insurgents and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops in the Shi'a holy city of Najaf.
• January 27: In Guinea, a general strike that has resulted in at least fifty-nine deaths in violent clashes between police and demonstrators ends after seventeen days.
• January 27/28: Roger Federer wins the men's single title at the 2007 Australian Open without losing a single set; Serena Williams, unseeded for the tournament, wins the women's single title.
• January 27: In Guinea, a general strike that has resulted in at least fifty-nine deaths in violent clashes between police and demonstrators ends after seventeen days.
• January 26: The Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan rejects the nomination of Felix Kulov for a second time and instead approves Azim Isabekov as the new Prime Minister.
• Image:Federer cropped.jpg Roger Federer (2005 photo)
• January 25: Moshe Katsav temporarily relinquishes his position as President of Israel amid allegations of multiple offenses, including rape and obstruction of justice.
• Image:Moshe Katsav 2003-05-11 cropped.jpg Moshe Katsav
• January 25: Amidst continued civil unrest between pro and anti-government groups in Lebanon, the military imposes an overnight curfew on Beirut.
• January 24: The black boxes of Adam Air Flight 574, which disappeared on New Year's Day, are located off the coast of West Sulawesi, Indonesia.
• January 22: Indian spacecraft SRE 1 successfully completes a twelve-day orbital test flight, making India one of the few nations to return a craft from orbit.
• January 22: Vojislav Šešelj's Serbian Radical Party wins a plurality of seats in Serbian elections but admits it will be unlikely to form a government.
• January 21: Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to appear in over forty years, becomes visible over the Southern Hemisphere
• Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg Flag of Lebanon.
• January 19: Ogün Samast, alleged assassin of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, is arrested in Samsun.
• Image:Comet McNaught - Levin.NZ.jpg Comet McNaught
• Image:ISRO-SCRE-1-Spacecraft-1.jpg SRE1
• January 19: Major winter storms kill at least 45 in Europe and 85 in North America.
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December 2006

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  • December 11: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pictured) opens a conference aiming to "review the Holocaust".
  • December 11: In his final speech in office, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan encourages the United States to provide global leadership whilst respecting multilateralism.
  • December 11: Christer Fuglesang, the first Scandinavian in space, and six other astronauts on mission STS-116 arrive at the International Space Station.
  • December 10: Incumbent Igor Smirnov wins presidential elections in the internationally unrecognized state of Transnistria.
  • December 10: Former Chilean head of state Augusto Pinochet (age 91) dies one week after suffering a heart attack.
  • December 9 Marc Ravalomanana is re-elected as President of Madagascar.
• December 10: Christer Fuglesang becomes the first Scandinavian astronaut in space as the Space Shuttle Discovery (pictured) is launched on a mission to the International Space Station.
• December 8: Ethiopia begins to intervene in the Somali Civil War.
• December 6: The Iraq Study Group releases its final report, describing the situation in the Iraq War as "grave and deteriorating" and making seventy-nine policy recommendations.
• December 5: The Fijian military under Commodore Frank Bainimarama takes control of the government.
• December 5: After killing nearly six hundred people in the Philippines, Typhoon Durian (Reming) strikes Vietnam, leading to over eighty more deaths.
• December 4: Hugo Chávez is re-elected as President of Venezuela.
• December 4: Fijian troops occupy the police headquarters in Suva, as their conflict with the government continues to escalate.
• December 3: The Sudan People's Liberation Army clashes with government forces in Malakal, Sudan, resulting in more than three hundred deaths.
• December 1: The 15th Asian Games, a multi-sport event with forty-five countries participating, open in Doha, Qatar.
• December 1: Typhoon Durian (Reming) strikes the Philippines and Vietnam, killing more than four hundred people.

November 2006

• November 28: Economist and former Finance Minister Rafael Correa wins the Ecuadorian presidential election after a run-off.
• November 23: A series of car bombs and mortar attacks kills more than 200 people in Sadr City, Iraq.
• November 23: The Socialist Party gains in Dutch elections, while Jan Peter Balkenende's Christian Democrats retain their plurality in the Tweede Kamer.
• November 23: Former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko dies in a hospital in London after being poisoned with polonium.
• November 21: Maoist rebels in Nepal sign a peace treaty with the government, officially ending a ten-year civil war.
• November 21: An international consortium signs a deal to formally launch ITER, a project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor.
• November 21: Pierre Amine Gemayel, Minister of Industry in Lebanon, is assassinated in Beirut.
• November 21: Former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko is critically ill in a London hospital after a suspected thallium poisoning.
• November 21: Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, winner of five Olympic, eleven World Championship and ten Commonwealth gold medals, announces his retirement at the age of twenty-four.
• November 18: A Malagasy general fails in his military coup attempt against President Marc Ravalomanana.
• November 16: Ségolène Royal wins the Socialist Party's nomination for President of France in next year's election to become France's first female presidential candidate representing a major party.
• November 15: Joseph Kabila is declared winner of the election for the presidency of the Democratic Republic of Congo. His opponent, Jean-Pierre Bemba, alleges fraud.
• November 14: The Parliament of South Africa votes to legalize same-sex marriage.
• November 10: Nadarajah Raviraj, a human rights lawyer and legislator from the Tamil National Alliance, is assassinated in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• November 9: A new Constitution of Kyrgyzstan adopted by the Joghorku Keneš is signed into law by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
• November 8: Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense; Robert Gates is nominated as his replacement.
• November 8: The Democratic Party wins control of both chambers of the United States Congress.
• November 8: Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense; Robert Gates is nominated as his replacement.
• November 8: Margaret Chan is elected as the next Director-General of the World Health Organization.
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Hunyo

• June 30: A controversial new law on authors' rights is approved by the French Parliament.
• June 29: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that planned Guantanamo Bay military tribunals are illegal.
• June 29: Democrats 66 prompts a Dutch coalition cabinet collapse over the Ayaan Hirsi Ali affair, resulting in early elections in November.
• June 29: Women in Kuwait participate in general elections for the first time.
• June 28: The Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations.
• June 28: Israel launches a major incursion into the Gaza Strip to free captured soldier Gilad Shalit.
• June 27: Nguyễn Minh Triết is elected by the National Assembly as President of Vietnam, and appoints Nguyễn Tấn Dũng as Prime Minister.
• June 26: Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri of East Timor resigns in the wake of a national crisis.
• June 25: The world's two leading steel producers, Arcelor and Mittal, announce their merger.
• June 25: Billionaire Warren Buffett pledges a record US$30.7 billion in shares to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• June 24: The death penalty is abolished in the Philippines.
• June 24: The U.S. Navy concludes Valiant Shield, its largest Pacific military exercise since the Vietnam War.
• June 22: 2014 Winter Olympics bids are approved for Sochi, Salzburg, and Pyeongchang.
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Enero

• Enero 27: Germany's former President, Johannes Rau, has died at the age of 75.
• Enero 25: Deus Caritas Est (Latin: "God is love"), the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, is published.
• Enero 25: Google agrees to block certain search terms from its service in China.
• Enero 25: Elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council are held for the first time in ten years.
• Enero 23: In the Canadian federal election Stephen Harper's Conservatives defeat Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberals and will form a minority government.
• Enero 23: The new Emir of Kuwait, Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, agrees to abdicate after only ten days on the throne.
• Enero 23: At least 39 people die in the Bioče train disaster, Montenegro's worst-ever train accident.
• Enero 23: The Ford Motor Company announces plans to lay off nearly a quarter of its North American workforce.
• Enero 21: Aníbal Cavaco Silva is elected the first right-wing President of Portugal since the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
• Enero 21: President Ibrahim Rugova of Kosovo dies in office at age 61.
• Enero 20: Final results of the Iraqi elections are released, with the United Iraqi Alliance winning 128 of 275 seats in the National Assembly.
• Enero 19: The New Horizons spacecraft is launched successfully from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a nine-year mission to Pluto.
• Enero 18: Alleged fraud prompts heavy sales of livedoor stock, forcing the Tokyo Stock Exchange to close early for the first time.
• Enero 16: Tarja Halonen and Sauli Niinistö take the first round of the Finnish presidential election.
• Enero 15: Socialist Michelle Bachelet is elected the first female President of Chile.
• Enero 15: Voting begins in the Finnish presidential election.
• Enero 15: The Stardust sample return capsule lands near Dugway Proving Ground with particles from Comet Wild 2.
• Enero 15: Sheikh Jaber, the Emir of Kuwait, dies after 28 years in office, and is succeeded by the Crown Prince, Sheikh Saad.
• Enero 14: A U.S. missile strike targets al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri but instead kills 18 civilians in the tribal areas of Pakistan. The Pakistani government protests the strike as a violation of Pakistani sovereignty.
• Enero 14: Augustine Volcano in Alaska erupts for the first time in almost two decades.
• Enero 12: Hundreds of pilgrims are killed in a Hajj stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual.
• Enero 12: Mehmet Ali Ağca, who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, is released from prison.
• Enero 12: The first annual ministerial meeting of the APPCDC climate conference is held in Sydney, Australia.
• Enero 9: Doctors treating Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attempt to wake him from an induced coma.
• Enero 9: U.S. Senate confirmation hearings continue for United States Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito.
• Enero 7: Embattled U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay officially resigns from his leadership post.
• Enero 7: Doctors say Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chances of survival from his massive stroke are "very high" but that he will likely suffer permanent cognitive impairment.
• Enero 7: Following controversy over his confessed alcoholism, Charles Kennedy resigns as leader of the British Liberal Democrats party.
• Enero 6: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization warns that 11 million are threatened by the Horn of Africa food crisis.
• Enero 5: Microsoft releases a high priority fix for the Windows Metafile vulnerability.
• Enero 5: Fifteen bodies are recovered from the Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof collapse in Bavaria, Germany.
• Enero 5: Reports suggest Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may never recover from a hemorrhagic stroke.
• Enero 4: Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Emir of Dubai and PM of the United Arab Emirates, dies.
• Enero 4: Twelve of thirteen trapped coal miners are found dead in the West Virginia Sago Mine in the U.S.
• Enero 4: Russia agrees to resume the supply of gas to Ukraine.
• Enero 3: U.S. lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to three felony counts in a political corruption scandal.
• Enero 2: Ugandan presidential candidate Kizza Besigye is released from prison.
• Enero 2: One coal miner is rescued from the Sago Mine accident in the U.S. state of West Virginia despite initial reports of 12 survivors.
• Enero 2: Several exploits of a severe Microsoft Windows security vulnerability spread over the Internet, with no patch from Microsoft available.
• Enero 1: Russia cuts gas supplies to Ukraine, leading to a significant drop in gas imports for many European countries.
• Enero 1: Tropical Storm Zeta (pictured) continues activity in the Atlantic Ocean, becoming only the second tropical cyclone on record to exist across two calendar years in the Atlantic.