| 2007-07-16
2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake: an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing 8 people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant.
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| 2007-01-12
Comet McNaught reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
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| 2007-11-03
Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspends the Constitution, imposes a State of Emergency, and fires the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
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| 2007-11-10
¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.
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| 2007-01-31
Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
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| 2007-10-02
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
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| 2007-11-05
China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
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| 2007-03-06
Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
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| 2007-02-03
A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
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| 2007-06-29
Two car bombs are found at Piccadilly Circus, in the heart of London.
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| 2007-11-23
MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There were no fatalities.
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| 2007-08-14
The 2007 Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 400 people.
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| 2007-01-15
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
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| 2007-12-03
Winter storms caused the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, also closing a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods.
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| 2007-04-11
2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers, kills 33 people and wounds a further 222 others.
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| 2007-04-12
A suicide bomber penetrated the Green Zone and detonated in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.
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| 2007-07-27
Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there are no survivors. This is the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
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| 2007-12-05
Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
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| 2007-02-21
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.
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| 2007-02-02
Three tornadoes hit Central Florida, killing 42 people.
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| 2007-04-18
The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.
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| 2007-02-24
Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
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| 2007-10-28
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina.
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| 2007-12-20
Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days.
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| 2007-04-18
A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251.
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| 2007-03-01
"Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots.
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| 2007-06-27
The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
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| 2007-11-07
Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
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| 2007-06-01
Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, 52, of Oakland County, Michigan.
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| 2007-09-18
Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
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| 2007-09-10
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
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| 2007-09-12
Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder.
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| 2007-11-14
The last direct-current electrical distribution system in the United States is shut down in New York City by Con Edison.
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| 2007-08-01
The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
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| 2007-08-15
An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
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| 2007-04-16
Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest spree killing in modern American history. Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 and injures 23 before committing suicide.
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| 2007-02-13
Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
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| 2007-08-27
Bluegrass Army Depot Sarin(GB) leak in Lexington, Kentucky. Officials reported the Sarin levels 85 times above the safe limit.
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| 2007-03-04
Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
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| 2007-11-13
An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing four people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding six.
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| 2007-04-03
Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
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| 2007-05-07
The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
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| 2007-09-18
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
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| 2007-01-01
Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
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| 2007-06-24
The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California, destroying over 200 structures in its first 48 hours.
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| 2007-10-25
The first Airbus A380 passenger flight, operating for Singapore Airlines, with flight number SQ 380, flying scheduled service between Singapore and Sydney, Australia.
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| 2007-02-23
A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
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| 2007-04-14
At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
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| 2007-11-15
Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
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| 2007-08-04
Airport police officer María del Luján Telpuk discovers a suitcase containing an undeclared amount of US$800,000 as it went through an x-ray machine in Buenos Aires' Aeroparque Jorge Newbery, sparking an international scandal involving Venezuela and Argentina known as "Maletinazo".
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| 2007-12-07
The Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge being towed by a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit.
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| 2007-01-04
The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
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| 2007-08-07
Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
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| 2007-11-24
Australians elect the centre-left Australian Labor Party at a federal election; the outgoing prime minister, John Howard, becomes the first since 1929 to lose his own seat.
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| 2007-04-25
Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
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| 2007-04-20
Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
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| 2007-05-12
Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
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| 2007-12-11
Two car bombs explode at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.
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| 2007-09-13
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted.
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| 2007-08-04
NASA's Phoenix spaceship is launched.
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| 2007-03-23
In Melbourne, Australia, a fire in the Burnley Tunnel kills three.
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| 2007-01-01
Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages.
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| 2007-04-27
Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
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| 2007-03-01
Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
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| 2007-12-31
The massive Big Dig construction project in Boston, Massachusetts ends.
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| 2007-07-17
TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.
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| 2007-04-24
Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
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| 2007-05-04
The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election and becomes the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time ever.
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| 2007-12-21
The Schengen Agreement area increases to include 9 European Union member states; Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia on land and sea borders.
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| 2007-09-16
One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
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| 2007-10-22
Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
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| 2007-05-17
Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
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| 2007-09-17
AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.
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| 2007-01-03
National Express has its worst ever coach crash just outside Heathrow Airport.
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| 2007-03-07
British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
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| 2007-12-20
The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Café, by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari.
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| 2007-01-17
The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
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| 2007-08-29
2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.
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| 2007-05-04
Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7mi wide EF-5 tornado.
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| 2007-07-17
Trans-Neptunian Object 2007 OR10 is discovered.
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| 2007-11-29
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad.
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| 2007-08-09
Emergence of the Financial crisis of 2007-2008 when a liquidity crisis resulted from the Subprime mortgage crisis
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| 2007-07-25
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president.
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| 2007-10-15
Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post 9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
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| 2007-08-22
The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.
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| 2007-03-23
The Iranian Navy seizes Royal Navy personnel in the waters between Iran and Iraq.
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| 2007-07-21
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling, the fastest-selling book in history, is released.
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| 2007-07-08
Boeing unveiled its first 787 in a roll-out ceremony at its Everett assembly factory.
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| 2007-08-12
Bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged.
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| 2007-09-29
Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
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| 2007-01-18
The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.
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| 2007-11-29
The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
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| 2007-10-18
Karachi bombings: attempted assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
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| 2007-06-08
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker.
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| 2007-05-05
Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
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| 2007-06-13
The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a third time.
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| 2007-12-31
Bocaue Fire: Seven people are injured when a fire results in the explosions of several fireworks stores in the municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines.
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| 2007-04-04
15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
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| 2007-06-03
USS Carter Hall engages pirates after they board the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia.
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| 2007-10-23
A powerful cold front in the Bay of Campeche causes the Usumacinta Jackup rig to collide with Kab 101, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the rig.
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| 2007-07-01
Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. With the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK. The ban is also put into effect in Australia.
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| 2007-05-01
the Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy.
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| 2007-07-31
Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.
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| 2007-08-22
The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day
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| 2007-10-11
The record high of the Dow Jones Industrial Average occurs at 14,198.10 points.
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| 2007-10-19
Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.
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| 2007-08-21
Hurricane Dean makes its first landfall in Costa Maya, Mexico with winds at 165 mph (266 km/h). Dean is the first storm since Hurricane Andrew to make landfall as a Category 5.
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| 2007-11-09
The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause.
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| 2007-02-27
The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.
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| 2007-12-27
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.
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| 2007-10-06
Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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| 2007-02-28
Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
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| 2007-08-08
An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
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| 2007-01-19
Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.
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| 2007-12-28
Nepal declares a federal democratic Republic by interim parliament, abolishing the monarchy.
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| 2007-09-05
Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
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