76 events found for 2007
Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.
Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim…
Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
The battle of Mirali begins in which the Pakistan Armed Forces and Taliban militias clash for four days.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2008…
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11.
Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139 and…
Finnish race drivers Kimi Räikkönen of Scuderia Ferrari won the Brazilian Grand Prix in Formula One. With this result,…
A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos, with all except one dying in this…
A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22…
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-120, with Pamela Melroy becoming the second female space shuttle commander.
Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch…
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.