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Alexei Nikolaevich was the last Russian tsesarevich. He was the youngest child and only son of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. He was born with haemophilia, whic…
The skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister…
al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Islamist jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world…
Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both…
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east,…
Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
Joshua Morgan Hancock was an American professional baseball pitcher, who played Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, and St. …
Josh Hancock, American baseball player (born 1978)
Richard Charles Motz was a New Zealand cricketer. A right-arm fast bowler and hard-hitting lower order batsman, Motz played 32 Test matches for the New Zealand national cricket tea…
Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer and rugby player (born 1940)
Ivica Račan was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2000 to 2003, heading two centre-left coalition governments.
Ivica Račan, Croatian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (born 1944)
Kevin Danyelle Mitchell was an American professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He played for the San Francisco 49ers,…
Kevin Mitchell, American football player (born 1971)
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif is a Pakistani politician and businessman who thrice served as the prime minister of Pakistan, for three non-consecutive terms, first serving from 1990 t…
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military…
Joseph Ejercito Estrada, also known by the nickname Erap, is a Filipino retired politician and former actor who served as the 13th president of the Philippines from 1998 until his …
Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of plunder.
The 2007 Bengkulu earthquakes were a series of megathrust earthquakes that struck the Sunda Trench off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, with three of magnitude 7 or greater. A seri…
Two earthquakes measuring 8.4 and 7.9 on the Richter Scale hits the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing 25 people…
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a legally non-binding United Nations resolution passed by the General Assembly on September 13, 2007, that delineates and def…
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
McLaren Racing Limited, currently competing in Formula One as McLaren Mastercard F1 Team, is a British motor racing team based at the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, Surrey, E…
The McLaren F1 team are found guilty of possessing confidential information from the Ferrari team, fined $100 million,…
Gordon Scott was an American film and television actor known for his portrayal of the fictional character Tarzan in five films of the Tarzan film series from 1955 to 1960. Gordon S…
Gordon Scott, American film and television actor (born 1926)
Brad McGann MNZM, was a New Zealand film director and screenwriter.
Brad McGann, New Zealand director and screenwriter (born 1964)
Warja Lavater was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist's books genre by creating accordion fold books t…
Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (born 1913)
Knock Yokoyama was a Japanese politician and comedian.
Knock Yokoyama, Japanese politician (born 1932)
Isabella Blow was an English magazine editor. She was mentor to Philip Treacy, and is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl, and fashion designer Alex…
Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (born 1958)
A major worldwide financial crisis centered in the United States took place in 2008. The causes included excessive speculation on property values by both homeowners and financial i…
Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150…
One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 (OG269/OTG269) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand. On 16 September 2007, about 15:41 ICT, the McDonnell Dougl…
One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.
The Nisour Square massacre occurred on September 16, 2007, when employees of Blackwater Security Consulting, which was a private military company contracted by the United States go…
Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
The Saffron Revolution was a series of economic and political protests and demonstrations that took place during August, September and October 2007 in Myanmar. The protests were tr…
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
Diego "Chico" Corrales Jr. was an American professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2007. He was a multiple-time world champion in two weight divisions, having held the Interna…
Diego Corrales, American boxer (born 1977)
Octavian Paler was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.
Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (born 1926)