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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,…
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)
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)
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.
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)
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)
The Jena Six were six black teenagers in Jena, Louisiana, United States, convicted in the 2006 beating of Justin Barker, a white student at the local Jena High School, which they a…
Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters march on Jena, Louisiana, United States, in support of six black youths who had…
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…
Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
Dawn is a retired space probe that was launched by NASA in September 2007 with the mission of studying two of the three known protoplanets of the asteroid belt: Vesta and Ceres. In…
NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.
Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station is a former Magnox nuclear power station on the Sellafield site in Cumbria in North West England. Calder Hall was the first full-scale nuclear pow…
Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
Jason Lewis is an English author, explorer and sustainability campaigner credited with being the first person to circumnavigate the globe by human power. He is also the first perso…
Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
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)