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| − | Year '''2007''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MMVII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]] in the [[21st century]].
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| − | The year 2007 was designated:
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| − | * [[UNESCO]] Officially Named 2007 "[[Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi-Rumi|Year of Rumi]]".<ref>[http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C12%5C12%5Cstory_12-12-2006_pg11_9 UNESCO names 2007 ‘Year of Rumi’] (''Daily Times'')</ref>
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| − | * In the [[lunar calendar]] (or [[Chinese Calendar]]), dates from [[February 18]] onwards are in the [[boar (zodiac)|Year of the Boar]] (or Pig)
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| − | * [[International Polar Year]]<ref>[http://www.ipy.org/ International Polar Year website]</ref>
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| − | * [[International Heliophysical Year]]<ref>[http://ihy2007.org/ International Heliophysical Year website]</ref>
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| − | * [[European Year of Equal Opportunities for All]]<ref>[http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/eyeq/index.cfm?language=EN European Year of Equal Opportunities for All website]</ref>
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| − | * [[Year of the Dolphin]]<ref>[http://www.yod2007.org/en/Start_page/index.html Year of the Dolphin website]</ref>
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| − | * [[Highland 2007]]
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| − | ''Also see: [[Current events#Past events by month|Wikipedia's almanac]] of events for this year.''
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| − | [[UNESCO]] has formally recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.<ref>[http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001457/145755M.pdf Celebration of anniversaries with which UNESCO will be associated in 2006–2007]</ref>
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| − | ==Events of 2007==
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| − | ===January===
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Accession of Bulgaria to the European Union|Bulgaria]] and [[Accession of Romania to the European Union|Romania]] [[Enlargement of the European Union|join]] the [[European Union]].
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Slovenia]] adopts the [[euro]] as its official currency, replacing the [[Slovenian tolar|tolar]].
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[South Korea]]'s [[Ban Ki-moon]] becomes the new [[United Nations Secretary-General]], replacing [[Kofi Annan]].
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Hong Kong]]'s new [[smoking ban]] starts. From this day onwards, smoking is prohibited in clubs, karaoke bars, restaurants, and all public places.
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Adam Air Flight 574]], a routine domestic flight in [[Indonesia]], disappears; debris are found 10 days later, but the aircraft remains missing.
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Angola]] joins [[OPEC]].
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[War in Somalia (2006 – present)|War in Somalia]]: Fighters of the [[Islamic Courts Union]] abandon their last stronghold in [[Fall of Kismayo|Kismayo]] and flee for the [[Ras Kamboni|Kenyan border]].
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| − | * [[January 2]] - The new constitution of [[Gibraltar]] came into force. [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gi.html#Govt]
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| − | * [[January 3]] - [[People's Republic of China|China]] conducts an [[Xinjiang raid (January 2007)|anti-terror raid]] in [[Xinjiang]].
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| − | [[Image:Nancy Pelosi.jpeg|120px|thumb|[[Nancy Pelosi]]]]
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| − | * [[January 4]] - [[Nancy Pelosi]] becomes the first female [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|speaker]] of the [[United States House of Representatives]].
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| − | * [[January 5]] - [[War in Somalia (2006 – present)|War in Somalia]]: The first shots are fired in the [[Battle of Ras Kamboni|battle for control]] of the border town of [[Ras Kamboni]].
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| − | * [[January 5]] - [[Taiwan High Speed Rail]] open between [[Taipei]] and [[Kaohsiung]].
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| − | * [[January 8]] - [[Russia]]n oil supplies to [[Poland]], [[Germany]], and [[Ukraine]] are cut as the [[Russia-Belarus energy dispute]] escalates; restored 3 days later.
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| − | * [[January 9]] - [[War in Somalia (2006 – present)|War in Somalia]]: U.S. planes conduct [[Battle of Ras Kamboni|air strikes in Somalia against suspected terrorists]].
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| − | * [[January 9]] - An [[AerianTur-M]] [[Antonov]] [[Antonov An-26|An-26]] [[2007 Balad aircraft crash|crashes]] in [[Balad, Iraq|Balad]], [[Iraq]]. The [[Islamic Army in Iraq]] claims to have shot it down.
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| − | * [[January 9]] - [[Apple Inc.]] announces and introduces the highly speculated [[iPhone]] at the 2007 [[Macworld Conference & Expo]]
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| − | * [[January 10]] - [[United States|U.S.]] [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] announces a plan to station 21,500 additional troops in [[Iraq]].
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| − | * [[January 11]] - In [[Bangladesh]], a state of emergency is declared by caretaker President [[Iajuddin Ahmed]], following weeks of violent protests preceding upcoming [[Bangladeshi parliamentary election, 2007|parliamentary elections]].
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| − | * [[January 11]] - [[Vietnam]] joins the [[World Trade Organization]] as its 150th member.
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| − | * [[January 11]] - [[People's Republic of China|China]] successfully tests a ground-based [[ballistic missile]] capable of destroying satellites in orbit, drawing criticisms from other countries.
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| − | * [[January 12]] - An [[Argentina|Argentine]] judge issues a warrant for the arrest of former [[President of Argentina|President]] [[Isabel Martínez de Perón]] in connection with the disappearance of a [[human rights]] worker in [[1976]].
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| − | * [[January 12]] - The US Embassy in [[Athens]] is attacked with a [[rocket propelled grenade]], which caused minimal damage and no injuries.
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| − | * [[January 12]] - [[Comet McNaught]], the brightest comet in over 40 years, makes [[perihelion]].
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| − | * [[January 13]] - The Greek ship ''Server'' breaks in half off the [[Norway|Norwegian]] coast, releasing over 200 tons of crude [[oil]].
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| − | * [[January 14]] - The [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement]] officially adopts the [[Emblems of the Red Cross|Red Crystal]] as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations.
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| − | * [[January 14]] - [[Nazanin Fatehi]], a 19 year old [[Iran]]ian girl previously [[Capital Punishment|sentenced to death]] for killing a man she claimed tried to [[rape]] her niece, is exonerated, as her re-trial comes to an end
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| − | * [[January 17]] - [[Hurricane]] force winds from [[Kyrill (storm)|storm Kyrill]] claim at least 40 lives in western [[Europe]].
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| − | * [[January 17]] - Protests occur in [[India]] and the [[United Kingdom]] against the British series of [[Celebrity Big Brother 2007 (UK)|''Celebrity Big Brother'']] after [[Jade Goody]], [[Danielle Lloyd]] and [[Jo O'Meara]] were alleged to have been racially abusive towards [[Bollywood]] star [[Shilpa Shetty]].
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| − | * [[January 17]] - [[Doomsday Clock]] is set to 5 minutes to midnight.
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| − | * [[January 18]] - [[Comet McNaught]], the brightest [[comet]] to appear in over 40 years, becomes visible over the [[Southern Hemisphere]].
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| − | [[Image:STMeurope018 MO.jpg|thumb|[[Kyrill (storm)|Hurricane Kyrill]] creates havoc as it passes across northern Europe.]]
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| − | * [[January 18]] - The strongest storm in the [[UK]] for 17 years kills 14 people, [[Germany]] sees the worst storm since [[1999]] with 13 deaths. [[Hurricane]] [[Kyrill (storm)|Kyrill]], caused at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in [[Western Europe]]. Other losses include the [[Container Ship]] [[MSC Napoli]] destroyed by the storm of the coast of [[Devon]], [[England]].
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| − | * [[January 19]] - [[Israel]] released $100 million in frozen assets to President [[Mahmoud Abbas]] of the [[Palestinian National Authority]] in order to bolster the president's position. [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/23/tww.01.html]
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| − | * [[January 21]] - [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] [[Asashoryu]] won the [[Emperor's Cup]] at the New Year's Grand [[Sumo]] Tournament (Hatsu Basho) in [[Tokyo]], Japan.
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| − | * [[January 22]] - A [[22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings|bombing in a market]] in Baghdad, Iraq kills 88 people.
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| − | * [[January 24]] - The [[Israel]]i [[Justice Minister|Ministry of Justice]] announces that the [[President of Israel]], [[Moshe Katsav]], will be charged with [[rape]] and abuse of power.
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| − | * [[January 25]] - The [[President of Israel]], [[Moshe Katsav]], takes a temporary [[leave of absence]] due to a [[sex scandal]].
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| − | * [[January 28]] - A [[Battle of Najaf (2007)|battle]] between [[Iraqi insurgency|insurgents]] and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops kills 300 suspected terrorists in [[Najaf]], [[Iraq]].
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| − | * [[January 28]] - [[February 4]] - The [[2007 Asian Winter Games]] are held in [[Changchun]], [[People's Republic of China|China]].
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| − | * [[January 29]] - A [[suicide bomber]] kills three people in a bakery in [[Eilat]], [[Israel]].
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| − | * [[January 30]] - [[Microsoft]] releases [[Windows Vista]] and [[Office 2007]]
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| − | * [[January 31]] - The [[Venezuela]]n [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] gives President [[Hugo Chávez]] the power to [[rule by decree]] for 18 months.
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| − | * [[January 31]] - [[Delta Air Lines]] creditors officially reject [[US Airways]]' [[takeover|hostile takeover]] bid.
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| − | * [[January 31]] - The [[2007 Boston Mooninite Scare|Mooninite scare occurs in Boston]] when devices used in a [[guerrilla marketing]] campaign for the animated television series ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' are mistaken for [[improvised explosive devices]].
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| − | * [[February 1]] - [[British Prime Minister]] [[Tony Blair]] is questioned for a second time in the '[[cash for peerages]] (Cash for Honours)' probe as a witness.
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| − | * [[February 2]] - An [[2007 Central Florida tornadoes|unseasonal tornado in central Florida]] kills at least 20 people.
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| − | * [[February 2]] - [[Palestinian factional violence]]: [[Hamas]] and its rival [[Fatah]] renew their truce after violence broke out following the initial ceasefire.
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| − | * [[February 2]] - [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] President [[Hu Jintao]] signs a series of economic deals with [[Sudan]].
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| − | * [[February 2]] - [[War in Somalia (2006–present)|War in Somalia]]: Eight people are killed in a mortar attack in [[Somalia]]'s capital [[Mogadishu]].
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| − | * [[February 2]] - [[Martti Ahtisaari]] unveils a [[United Nations]] plan for the final status of [[Kosovo]]; [[Serbia]]n leaders denounce the proposal.
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| − | * [[February 2]] - The [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change|IPCC]] publishes its [[IPCC Fourth Assessment Report|fourth assessment report]], having concluded that [[global climate change]] is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.
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| − | * [[February 3]] - The deadly [[H5N1]] strain of [[Avian influenza|bird flu]] is found at a ''[[Bernard Matthews]]'' [[Turkey (bird)|turkey]] farm in [[Suffolk]].
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| − | * [[February 3]] - [[State of Emergency]] is declared in [[Indonesia]] after '[[El Nino]]'-like flooding.
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| − | * [[February 3]] - A [[3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing|truck bombing]] in a crowded [[Baghdad]] market kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339 others.
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| − | * [[February 4]] - The [[Indianapolis Colts]] defeat the [[Chicago Bears]] 29-17 in [[Super Bowl XLI]], played at [[Dolphin Stadium]], [[Miami]].
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| − | * [[February 7]] - [[Sharon Osbourne]] announces that [[Ozzfest#Free fest|Ozzfest 2007]] is free.
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| − | * [[February 10]] - [[U.S. Senator]] [[Barack Obama]] of [[Illinois]] announces a [[President of the United States|presidential]] bid in [[Springfield, Illinois]].
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| − | * [[February 11]] - [[Portugal|Portuguese]] voters agree to legalise [[abortion]] in a national [[referendum]].
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| − | * [[February 11]] - The [[49th Annual Grammy Awards]] take place at the [[Staples Center]] in Los Angeles.
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| − | * [[February 12]] - An armed gunman shoots and kills five people at the [[Trolley Square Mall]] in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to six.
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| − | * [[February 13]] - [[North Korea]] agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.<ref>http://english.kbs.co.kr/news/newsview_sub.php?menu=1&key=2007021324</ref>
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| − | * [[February 13]] - [[Republic of China|Taiwan]] opposition leader [[Ma Ying-jeou]] resigns as the chairman of the [[Kuomintang]] party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement; Ma also announces his candidacy for the [[Republic of China presidential election, 2008|2008 presidential election]].
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| − | * [[February 22]] - A Large fire causes 26 fatalities in care center "Reģi" which is located in [[Alsunga]], [[Latvia]].
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| − | * [[February 25]] - The [[European Space Agency]] confirms [[Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta's]] successful Mars trajectory [[Planetary flyby|fly-by]].
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| − | * [[February 25]] - The [[79th Academy Awards]] ceremony, hosted by [[Ellen DeGeneres]], takes place at the [[Kodak Theater]] in [[Hollywood]]. ''[[The Departed]]'' wins [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
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| − | * [[February 26]] - The [[International Court of Justice]] finds [[Serbia]] guilty of failing to prevent [[genocide]] in the [[Srebrenica massacre]], but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in [[Bosnian genocide case at the International Court of Justice|the case]].
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| − | * [[February 27]] - [[The Chinese Correction]]: world [[stock market]]s plummet after China and Europe release less-than-expected growth reports.
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| − | * [[February 27]] - [[2007 Bagram Air Base bombing]]: A [[Taliban]] suicide attack at Bagram Air Base while Vice President of the United States [[Dick Cheney]] is visiting kills 23, but he is not injured.
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| − | * [[February 28]] - The [[New Horizons]] [[space probe]] makes a [[gravitational slingshot]] against [[Jupiter]] which changes its trajectory towards [[Pluto]].
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| − | * March - [[India]]'s [[Five-Year Plans of India|10th Five Year Plan]] comes to an end.
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| − | * [[March 1]] - [[International Polar Year]], a $1.5 billion research program to study both the [[North Pole]] and [[South Pole]], is launched in [[Paris]].
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| − | * [[March 1]] - [[Airbus]] announces that it will cease work indefinitely on the [[A380F]] freight aircraft.
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| − | * [[March 3]] - Total [[3 March 2007 lunar eclipse|lunar eclipse]].
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| − | * [[March 3]] - Mixed martial artist [[Randy Couture]] wins the [[Ultimate Fighting Championship|UFC]] heavyweight championship at the age of 43 in the main event of [[UFC 68]].
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| − | * [[March 4]] - [[Estonian parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] take place in [[Estonia]] and in [[Abkhazian parliamentary election, 2007|Abkhazia]].
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| − | * [[March 5]] - [[March 15]] - The [[2007 National People's Congress]] is held in [[Beijing]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]. The [[Property Law of the People's Republic of China]] is officially adopted.
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| − | * [[March 6]] - ''[[Mega Millions]]'' sets a new world record for the [[Lottery jackpot records|highest lottery jackpot]] of US $370 million.
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| − | * [[March 7]] - [[Garuda Indonesia Flight 200]], a [[Boeing 737-400]], crashes at [[Yogyakarta]] on the [[Indonesia]]n island of [[Java]], killing many on board.
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| − | * [[March 7]] - [[Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007]] is held.
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| − | * [[March 8]] - [[Israel]]i Prime Minister [[Ehud Olmert]] admits that Israel had planned an attack on [[Lebanon]] in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before [[Hezbollah]] carried out its kidnapping.
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| − | * [[March 12]] - [[Alan Johnston]], a BBC journalist [[Kidnapping of Alan Johnston|disappears]] in [[Gaza City]], [[Palestine]].
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| − | * [[March 13]] - [[Stardust Resort & Casino]] is demolished.
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| − | * [[March 17]] - [[Chlorine]] bombs injure hundreds in [[Baghdad, Iraq]].
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| − | * [[March 18]] - The [[2007 Formula One Season|2007 Formula 1 World Championship]] Begins with the [[2007 Australian Grand Prix|Australian Grand Prix]] in [[Melbourne]]
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| − | * [[March 22]] - [[NATO]] troops launch two assaults in [[Helmand Province]], [[Afghanistan]], killing 38 [[Taliban]] terrorists. NATO suffers no casualties.
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| − | * [[March 23]] - Naval forces of [[Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps|Iran's Revolutionary Guard]] [[2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel|seize Royal Navy personnel]] in disputed Iran-Iraq waters.
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| − | * [[March 23]] - Eight human skeletons are discovered in [[Fort Myers, Florida]], later linked to suspected serial killer [[Daniel Conahan]].
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| − | * [[March 25]] - In [[Berlin]] 27 European ministers celebrate the 50-year [[Treaty of Rome]].
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| − | * [[March 25]] - [[Ozeki]] [[Hakuho]] clinches the [[Emperor's Cup]] at the Spring Grand [[Sumo]] Tournament (Haru Basho) in [[Osaka]], Japan.
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| − | * [[March 26]] - In the [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Québec]], the [[Quebec Liberal Party|Liberal Party]] wins a [[Quebec National Assembly election, 2007|National Assembly election]] with 48 seats out of 125 and forms a minority government.
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| − | * [[March 27]] - [[Prime Minister of Latvia]] [[Aigars Kalvitis]] and [[Prime minister of Russia]] [[Mikhail Fradkov]] finally sign a border treaty between [[Latvia]] and [[Russia]].
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| − | * [[March 28]] - Former [[MLB]] pitcher [[Ugueth Urbina]] is sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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| − | * [[March 31]] - [[Sydney, Australia]], turns off its lights for 1 hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a [[political statement]] for [[Global Climate Change]].
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| − | * [[March 31]] - World DJ [[Tiesto]] starts his world tour 'Elements of Life' commencing at the [[King's Hall, Belfast]] to a packed audience of 8,000 hosted by Planetlove Promotions
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| − | * [[April 2]] - Smoke ban in enclosed places in [[Wales]]
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| − | * [[April 2]] - The [[Solomon Islands]] is shaken by a magnitude 8.1 [[earthquake]], and hit by a subsequent [[tsunami]].
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| − | * [[April 3]] - [[President of Ukraine|Ukrainian President]] [[Viktor Yushchenko]] dissolves the [[Parliament of Ukraine|Ukrainian Parliament]] following defections that increased the majority of his opponents. It has been nicknamed the "Second [[Orange Revolution]]".
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| − | * [[April 4]] - [[NATO]] and [[Afganistan|Afghan]] forces retake a key town from the [[Taliban]] in [[Sangin]] in southern [[Helmand Province]].
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| − | * [[April 4]] - [[Iran]] announced it will release the [[2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel|British sailors and marines]] that they captured on [[March 23]]. The captives arrive back in the UK the next day.
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| − | * [[April 5]] - The Greek cruise ship [[M/S Sea Diamond|M/S ''Sea Diamond'']] strikes a reef off the harbor of [[Santorini]]; the ship sinks the next day.
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| − | * [[April 6]] - Severe clashes between two rival factions erupted in [[Parachinar]], a tribal area of [[Pakistan]] bordering the famous [[Tora Bora]] Heights.
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| − | * [[April 8]] - [[Zach Johnson]] wins the [[2007 Masters Tournament]].
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| − | * [[April 11]] - [[Al Qaeda]] claims responsibility for [[11 April 2007 Algiers bombings|two bomb blasts]] in the Algerian capital of [[Algiers]]. At least 33 people have been killed and 222 others injured.
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| − | *[[April 12]] - [[Don Imus]] is fired by [[CBS]] for making controversial comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
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| − | * [[April 14]] - Retired chess champion [[Garry Kasparov]] is detained in Moscow for participating in a banned march.
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| − | * [[April 16]] - 32 people are killed in the [[Virginia Tech massacre]] on the premises of [[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]] in [[Blacksburg, Virginia]].
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| − | * [[April 17]] - The [[Pound Sterling]] hits a 15-year high against the US dollar, breaking through the US$2 level for the first time since 1992.
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| − | * [[April 17]] – The [[2014 Asian Games]] is awarded to be held in [[Incheon]], [[South Korea]], winning over [[India]]'s [[New Delhi]].
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| − | * [[April 18]] - 32 [[People's Republic of China|Chinese]] [[steel]] workers are burnt to death in the [[Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster]].
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| − | * [[April 19]] - US and allied air forces conduct massive exercises over [[South Korea]] with over 500 planes.<ref>http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm</ref>
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| − | * [[April 21]] - Presidential elections are held in [[Nigeria]].
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| − | * [[April 22]] - The first round of the [[French presidential election, 2007|French presidential election of 2007]] takes place.
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| − | * [[April 23]] - [[Bogotá]], Colombia, begins its term as [[World Book Capital]].
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| − | * [[April 24]] - [[Abortion]] is legalized in [[Mexico City]].
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| − | * [[April 24]] - [[Gliese 581 c]], a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered in the [[constellation]] [[Libra (constellation)|Libra]].
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| − | * [[April 25]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] gains 135.95 points to close at 13089.89; its first close above 13000 in its history.
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| − | * [[April 25]] - The [[Burj Dubai]] reaches the height of the [[Sears Tower]] on its way to becoming the tallest building in the world.
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| − | * [[April 25]] - Representative [[Dennis Kucinich]] (D-Ohio), introduces articles to [[impeach]] [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Dick Cheney]].<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/25/politics/main2726626.shtml</ref>
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| − | * [[April 26]] - Russians riot in [[Tallinn]], [[Estonia]], about moving the [[Bronze Soldier of Tallinn|Bronze Soldier]]. Two nights of rioting leave one dead.
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| − | * [[April 27]] - [[Turkish presidential election, 2007|Turkish Presidential Election]] first round, which was later declared invalid by a Turkish court.
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| − | * [[May 3]] - [[Madeleine McCann]] is abducted, the story receives extensive media coverage.
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| − | * [[May 3]] - [[Scottish Parliament election, 2007]]: The [[Scottish National Party]] became the largest party in [[Scotland]] for the first time in their history.
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| − | * [[May 3]] - [[United Kingdom local elections, 2007|Local government elections]] in [[Scotland]] and most of [[England]].
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| − | * [[May 3]] - [[National Assembly for Wales election, 2007|National Assembly for Wales]] elections 2007.
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| − | * [[May 4]] - [[May 2007 Tornado Outbreak|Tornado]] strikes [[Greensburg, Kansas]], killing at least 12 and destroying about 90% of the town.
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| − | * [[May 4]] - [[Executive Directive 51]], which specifies the procedures for continuity of the federal government of the United States in the event of a "catastrophic emergency" signed by President [[George W. Bush]]
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| − | * [[May 5]] - [[Kenya Airways]] [[Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507|Flight KQ 507]] crashes in [[Cameroon]].
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| − | * [[May 6]] - [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] is elected [[President of the French Republic]], defeating [[Ségolène Royal]] with 53% of the vote in the [[French presidential election, 2007|French Presidential Election]].
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| − | * [[May 6]] - [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] wins the [[England|English]] [[Premier League]].
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| − | * [[May 6]] - [[Panathinaikos BC]] wins basketball's [[Euroleague]] after beating [[CSKA Moscow]] 93-91 in Athens Olympic stadium.
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| − | * [[May 6]] - [[Atlético Clube Paranavaí|A.C. Paranavaí]] wins its first ever Paraná State Championship.
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| − | * [[May 7]] - [[2007 Chinese slave scandal|Chinese slave scandal]].
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| − | * [[May 8]] - [[Northern Ireland Assembly|Devolved government]] is restored to [[Northern Ireland]], with [[Ian Paisley]] as First Minister and [[Martin McGuinness]] as Deputy First Minister.
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| − | * [[May 9]] - [[Subtropical Storm Andrea]] forms off the coast of [[Florida]], the earliest subtropical storm since [[Subtropical Storm Ana]] in [[2003]].
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| − | * [[May 10]] - [[Tony Blair]] announces he will resign as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]] on [[27 June]] triggering a [[Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2007|Labour Party leadership election]].
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| − | * [[May 12]] - The final of the [[Eurovision Song Contest 2007]] is held in Helsinki, resulting in [[Serbia]]'s first victory.
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| − | *[[May 14]] - Senatorial Elections in the [[Philippines]] was held.
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| − | * [[May 14]] - Famed singer [[Bobby Darin]] receives a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
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| − | * [[May 15]] - Coalition government of [[Fatah]] and [[Hamas]] in [[Palestinian National Authority]] appeared to break down, as massive fighting breaks out in [[Gaza Strip]].
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| − | * [[May 16]] - The [[General Assembly]] of the [[United Nations]], recognizing that genuine [[multilingualism]] promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, proclaimed [[2008]] the [[International Year of Languages]] [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/ga10592.doc.htm].
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| − | * [[May 16]] - [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] officially became [[President of the French Republic]] after taking over from [[Jacques Chirac]].
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| − | * [[May 17]] - [[Alex Salmond]] officially became [[First Minister of Scotland]] after taking over from [[Jack McConnell]].
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| − | * [[May 17]] - The [[Russian Orthodox Church Abroad]] and the [[Moscow Patriarchate]] re-united after eighty years of schism.
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| − | * [[May 17]] - [[Hong Kong]] media regulator receives more than thousand complaints about the [[Bible]] being too sexual.
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| − | * [[May 19]] - The 126th [[FA Cup]] Final is held, the first at the new [[Wembley Stadium]]. [[Chelsea F.C.|Chelsea]] defeat [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] 1-0.
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| − | * [[May 20]] - The ruler of [[Dubai]], Sheikh [[Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum]] makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East.
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| − | * [[May 20]] - Clashes in [[Tripoli, Lebanon]], spark the [[2007 Lebanon conflict]].
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| − | * [[May 21]] - The [[19th century]] ship the ''[[Cutty Sark]]'' is badly damaged by fire in [[London]], UK.
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| − | * [[May 23]] - [[A.C. Milan]] beat [[Liverpool F.C.]] 2-1 in the [[UEFA Champions League 2006-07]] final at the [[Olympic Stadium (Athens)|Olympic Stadium]] in [[Athens]], [[Greece]].
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| − | * [[May 24]] - [[Irish general election, 2007|General election]] in the [[Republic of Ireland]]. [[Taoiseach]] [[Bertie Ahern]] and his [[Fianna Fáil]] party win a majority of seats for the third election in a row.
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| − | * [[May 25]] - The 30th anniversary of [[Star Wars]] is celebrated.
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| − | * [[May 25]] - [[Ozeki]] [[Hakuho]] clinches the [[Emperor's Cup]] at the Summer Grand [[Sumo]] Tournament (Natsu Basho) in [[Tokyo]], Japan.
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| − | * [[May 25]] - [[Denmark|Danish]] former professional bicyclist [[Bjarne Riis]] admitted to having used [[Doping (sport)|doping]] when winning the [[1996 Tour de France]].
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| − | * [[May 26]] - [[Russia]] is once again recognized as a full-fledged [[superpower]] by the [[United States]]. <ref>http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=768929</ref>
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| − | * [[May 27]] - [[RCTV|Radio Caracas Televisión]] (RCTV) is taken off the air after the government of [[Venezuela]] refused to renew its license. This action results in [[May 2007 RCTV protests|protests]]. On [[July 16]], 2007, RCTV resumed broadcasting via cable and satellite.
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| − | * [[May 27]] - [[Dario Franchitti]] wins the [[2007 Indianapolis 500]].
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| − | * [[May 28]] - [[Riyo Mori]] was crowned the new [[Miss Universe 2007]] in [[Mexico City]].
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| − | * [[May 29]] - Inauguration of newly elected [[President of Nigeria|President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria]] at the Abuja Eagle Square and first civilian to civilian transfer of power in [[Nigeria]].
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| − | * [[May 31]] - [[Valdis Zatlers]] is elected [[List of Presidents of Latvia|President of Latvia]], defeating [[Aivars Endziņš]] in the [[Latvian presidential election, 2007|Latvian presidential election]].
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| − | * [[May 31]] - A calendar [[blue moon]] occurred in the [[Western Hemisphere]] and parts of the [[Eastern Hemisphere]].
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| − | * [[June 1]] - A 2100 year old melon is discovered by archaeologists in western Japan<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070601/ap_on_fe_st/japan_oldest_melon;_ylt=ApRgC.q7xY7jDAOUFbldew0PLBIF|title=Researchers Find 2,100 Year Old Melon|publisher=Yahoo News |accessdate=2007-06-01}}</ref>
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| − | * [[June 1]] - U.S. warships bombard a Somali village where Islamic militants had set up a base<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070602/ap_on_re_af/somalia_us|title=Report: U.S. hits militants' Somali base |publisher=Yahoo News |accessdate=2007-06-02}}</ref>
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| − | * [[June 2]] - Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up [[JFK International Airport]] in [[New York]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/02/jfk.terror.plot/index.html|title=4 charged with terror plot at JFK airport, official says |publisher=CNN News |accessdate=2007-06-02}}</ref>
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| − | * [[June 3]] - The [[Valley of Geysers]] in [[Russia]] was destroyed by a mudflow.<ref>Russian ''[[GEO (magazine)|GEO]]'', N10, 2007, p. 167</ref>
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| − | * [[June 4]] - Ten people, including a Californian National Guard officer and former Hmong general, are charged over plans to overthrow the Laotian Government.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_re_us/laos_plot;_ylt=AvJrpI4uHaIielJzG9NGY_PMWM0F|title=2 charged in Laotian overthrow plot |Author: Don Thompson |publisher=Yahoo News |accessdate=2007-06-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/04/laos.arrests/index.html|title=10 charged with alleged Laos plot|publisher=CNN |accessdate=2007-06-04}}</ref>
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| − | * [[June 5]] - [[NASA]]'s [[MESSENGER]] spacecraft made its second fly-by of [[Venus (planet)|Venus]] en route to [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]].
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| − | * [[June 5]] - A mass grave in southern Ukraine, found accidentally by workers in May, has been confirmed to be filled with thousands of victims of [[The Holocaust]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070605/ap_on_re_eu/ukraine_holocaust|title=Mass Holocaust grave found in Ukraine |publisher=Yahoo News |accessdate=2007-06-05}}</ref>
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| − | * [[June 5]] - 11 people are killed and 23 others injured in a [[2007 Kerang train crash|train crash]] near Kerang in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], [[Australia]].
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| − | * [[June 6]] - Twelve people are killed by cyclone [[Gonu]] in [[Oman]].
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| − | * [[June 6]] - The [[Anaheim Ducks]] defeat the [[Ottawa Senators]] 4 games to 1 to win the [[National Hockey League|NHL]]'s [[Stanley Cup]].
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| − | * [[June 6]]-[[June 8]] - The [[33rd G8 summit]] took place amid strong protests in [[Heiligendamm]], [[Germany]].
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| − | * [[June 8]] - The [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] successfully launched on mission [[STS-117]].
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| − | * [[June 8]] - The coastal city of [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]] was rocked by heavy storms which claimed nine lives<ref>{{cite web
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| − | * [[June 10]] - The first round of a [[French legislative election, 2007|legislative election]] was held in [[France]], and a [[Belgian general election, 2007|general election]] was held in [[Belgium]].
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| − | * [[June 10]] - The [[61st Tony Awards]], honoring [[Broadway theatres]]' best shows, took place at [[Radio City Music Hall]].
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| − | * [[June 10]] - [[Lewis Hamilton]] wins the [[2007 Canadian Grand Prix|Canadian Grand Prix]] becoming the first driver of mixed racial origin to win a [[Formula One]] race.
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| − | * [[June 11]] - US Senator [[Larry Craig]], a long-time opponent of gay rights, was arrested for lewd conduct in a men's bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport and pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct on August 8.
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| − | * [[June 14]] - The [[Green Party of Ireland|Green Party]] enters government for the first time in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], with [[Fianna Fáil]] and the [[Progressive Democrats]].
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| − | * [[June 14]] - The [[San Antonio Spurs]] sweep the [[Cleveland Cavaliers]] to win the [[2007 NBA Finals]].
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| − | * [[June 15]] - [[Bob Barker]] airs his last episode of ''[[The Price is Right]]'', actual taping taking place on June 6.
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| − | * [[June 18]] - Three people are injured and one dead in a shooting near [[Flinders St]] in [[Melbourne]].
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| − | * [[June 18]] - Nine [[Charleston]], [[South Carolina]] firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire.
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| − | * [[June 20]] - The Argentinian team [[Boca Juniors]] beat the Brazilian team [[Grêmio]] to win the [[Copa Libertadores 2007]].
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| − | * [[June 22]] - An [[Fujita scale|F5]] [[tornado]] tears through [[Elie, Manitoba]], no injuries are reported.
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| − | * [[June 24]] - The refurbished [[Millennium Dome]], now called The O<sub>2</sub>, reopens in [[London]].
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| − | * [[June 24]] - South Lake Tahoe - A wildfire starts eventually destroying 254 homes in the area.
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| − | * [[June 25]] - WWE wrestler [[Chris Benoit]], his wife [[Nancy Benoit]], and son Daniel, are found dead as the result of a murder-suicide that took place over the previous weekend.
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| − | * [[June 25]] - Groundbreaking of the [[Chicago Spire]].
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| − | * [[June 25]] - Intense heatwaves begin to hit Southeast Europe as temperatures reach 46c in Bulgaria and Greece.
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| − | * [[June 25]] - Following the wettest June on record, Sheffield and South Yorkshire are affected by flooding. Much of Sheffield, Doncaster and Rotherham is flooded when the River Don breaches its banks.
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| − | * [[June 26]]-[[July 15]] - The [[Copa América 2007]] [[Football (soccer)|soccer]] tournament takes place in [[Venezuela]].
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| − | [[Image:Gordon Brown 2005 IMF close.jpg|thumb|120px|[[Gordon Brown]]]]
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| − | * [[June 27]] - [[Tony Blair]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]; New [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] leader [[Gordon Brown]] is [[kiss hands|appointed]] Prime Minister by [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]].
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| − | * [[June 27]] - The [[Brazilian Military Police|military police]] of [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|the state of Rio de Janeiro]] invades the ''[[favela]]'' of [[Complexo do Alemão]] ending in a [[Complexo do Alemão massacre|massacre]].
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| − | * [[June 28]] - In the aftermath of [[Greece]]'s worst [[heatwave]] in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from [[heatstroke]], approximately 200 [[wildfire]]s break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
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| − | * [[June 29]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] police [[2007 Haymarket bomb plot|defuse a bomb]] in [[Haymarket (London)|Haymarket]], [[Central London]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6252276.stm | title=London 'bomb' made safe by police |date=[[2007-06-29]]| work =[[BBC News Online]]}}</ref>
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| − | * [[June 29]] - Apple's new [[iPhone]] is released in the US
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| − | * [[June 30]] - A [[Jeep Cherokee (XJ)|Jeep Cherokee]] drove into the entrance of the main terminal of [[Glasgow International Airport]] in an [[2007 Glasgow International Airport attack|apparent terrorist incident]], resulting in a petrol-driven fire.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.itv.com/news/index_6a0d944f9aa1ca2c956854eff9c13a76.html | title=Car smashed into Glasgow Airport |date=[[2007-06-30]]| work =[[ITV News]]}}</ref>
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| − | * [[June 30]] - A calendar [[blue moon]] occurred in most of the [[Eastern Hemisphere]].
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| − | * [[June 30]] - The [[FIFA U-20 World Cup|FIFA U-20 World Cup 2007]] [[Football (soccer)|soccer]] tournament takes place in [[Canada]].
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| − | * [[June 30]] - A [[Papua New Guinean parliamentary election, 2007|parliamentary election]] was held in [[Papua New Guinea]].
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| − | * [[June 30]] - The [[Hawaii Superferry]] arrives in Honolulu after a 7,600 mile journey from [[Mobile, Alabama]]
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| − | * [[July 1]] - [[Hong Kong]] celebrates 10 years of Chinese rule.
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| − | * [[July 1]] - [[Portugal]] takes over the [[Presidency of the Council of the European Union]] from [[Germany]].
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| − | * [[July 1]] - Smoking in public and work places is banned in [[England]].
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| − | * [[July 1]] - Smoking is banned in pubs and clubs in [[New South Wales]] and [[Victoria, Australia]].
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| − | * [[July 1]] - A law goes into effect lowering the [[voting age]] in [[Austria]] from 18 to 16 in federal elections.
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| − | * [[July 1]] - [[Russia]] is composed of 85 federal subjects instead of 86 as [[Koryak Autonomous Okrug]] and [[Kamchatka Oblast]] were merged into the [[Kamchatka Krai]] following a 2005 referendum.
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| − | * [[July 1]] - The [[Concert For Diana]] is held at Wembley Stadium to commemorate [[Diana, Princess of Wales]].
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| − | * [[July 2]] - 10th anniversary of the collapse of the Thai [[baht]], which triggered the [[Asian Financial Crisis]].
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| − | * [[July 2]] - [[Venus]] and [[Saturn]] are in [[conjunction (astronomy)|conjunction]], separation 46 arcsecs.
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| − | * [[July 3]] - Torrential rains cause the onset of the [[2007 Sudan floods]], the worst in the [[Sudan]]'s history.
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| − | * [[July 4]] - The [[flag of the United States|50-star U.S. flag]] becomes the longest-flying American flag, replacing the [[flag of the United States|48-star flag]] that flew from [[1912]] to [[1959]].
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| − | * [[July 4]] - [[Sochi]] is elected as the host city of the [[2014 Winter Olympics]], during the 119th [[International Olympic Committee]] Session in [[Guatemala City]].
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| − | * [[July 4]] - After being held for 114 days, [[Alan Johnston]] was finally freed.
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| − | * [[July 7]] - [[Venus Williams]] wins the Women's Singles, at [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] for a fourth time.
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| − | * [[July 7]] - [[Live Earth]] Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world.
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| − | * [[July 7]]-[[July 29]] - The [[2007 Tour de France]] begins, with the ''grand départ'' being from [[London]].
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| − | * [[July 7]]-[[July 29]] - The [[2007 AFC Asian Cup|Asian Cup 2007]] [[Football (soccer)|Football (Soccer)]] tournament begins, taking place in [[Indonesia]], [[Thailand]], [[Malaysia]], and [[Vietnam]].
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| − | * [[July 8]] - Boeing launches the new [[Boeing 787]].
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| − | * [[July 8]] - [[Roger Federer]] wins the Men's Singles, at [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] for a fifth time in a row.
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| − | * [[July 9]] - While celebrating Argentinean Independence Day, snow falls in [[Buenos Aires]] for the first time in almost 100 years.
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| − | * [[July 10]] - [[2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game]] in [[San Francisco]] (AL 5, NL 4)
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| − | * [[July 10]] - A [[Cessna 310]]R twin-engine airplane crashes into two homes in [[Sanford, Florida]], killing three adults and two children.
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| − | * [[July 10]] - [[Zheng Xiaoyu]], head of [[State Food and Drug Administration]] of the [[People's Republic of China]] executed.
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| − | * [[July 11]] - The ninth [[All Africa Games]] kick off in [[Algiers]], [[Algeria]]
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| − | * [[July 12]] - [[Queen Elizabeth II]] visits the world's largest Commonwealth war grave in [[Ypres]], [[Belgium]] to pay respects to fallen soldiers of the [[Battle of Passchendaele]].
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| − | * [[July 13]] - The [[2007 Pan American Games|15th Pan Am Games]] opens in [[Rio de Janeiro]].
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| − | * [[July 14]] - Following a presidential decree, [[Russia]] withdraws from the [[Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe]].
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| − | * [[July 15]] - [[Brazil national football team|Brazil]] defeats [[Argentina national football team|Argentina]] 3-0 in the [[Copa América 2007]] Final.
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| − | [[Image:TopViewNarrows.jpg|thumb|right|Opening ceremony of the second [[Tacoma Narrows Bridge]]]]
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| − | * [[July 15]] - In [[Tacoma, Washington]], the second span of the [[Tacoma Narrows Bridge]] opens to traffic, making it the longest twin suspension bridge in the world.
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| − | * [[July 16]] - Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and release about 300 gallons of radioactive water.
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| − | * [[July 16]] - Britain expels four Russian diplomats in response to a refusal by the Russians to extradite [[Andrei Lugovoi]], suspected to be behind the murder of former KGB spy [[Alexander Litvinenko]] in London.
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| − | * [[July 17]] - [[TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054]] overruns the runway of [[Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport]] and crashes, killing all 186 and others on the ground.
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| − | * [[July 17]] - [[Atlanta Falcons]] quarterback [[Michael Vick]] and three other men on charges related to their alleged operation of a [[dogfighting]] ring based at one of Vick's properties in southeastern [[Virginia]]. Vick was later suspended indefinitely in [[August]] by NFL Commissioner [[Roger Goodell]] and is now serving his sentence of 23 months in federal prison.
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| − | * [[July 18]] - [[Nelson Mandela]] convenes a group of world leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems as he turns 89.
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| − | * [[July 18]] - At the height of rush hour in New York City [[2007 New York City steam explosion|a major steam pipe bursts]], releasing millions of gallons of boiling water and super heated steam. Only one fatality occurred; a pedestrian who went into cardiac arrest.
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| − | * [[July 19]] - [[Ol Doinyo Lengai]] mountain erupts, bringing a stop to the daily week long tremors experienced in [[Nairobi]] and Northern [[Tanzania]].
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| − | * [[July 19]] - Russia expels four British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of four of Russia's diplomats. Russia also refuses to cooperate with Britain over the war on terror.
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| − | [[Image:Pratibha Patil 2.jpg|thumb|right|120px|[[Pratibha Patil]]]]
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| − | * [[July 19]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] closes above 14,000 for the first time in history.
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| − | * [[July 19]] - [[Prathiba Patil]] is elected as the first female [[President of India]].
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| − | * [[July 21]] - U.S. Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] serves as [[Acting President of the United States|Acting President]] for two and a half hours, while President [[George W. Bush]] undergoes a [[colonoscopy]] procedure.
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| − | * [[July 21]] - The final epic novel in [[J.K. Rowling]]'s bestselling series [[Harry Potter]], [[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]], was released selling over 8 million copies in the first 24 hours.
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| − | * [[July 22]] - [[Summer 2007 United Kingdom floods|Floods cause chaos]] through wide areas of [[Great Britain|Britain]], especially the counties of [[Gloucestershire]], [[Warwickshire]], [[Worcestershire]] and [[Oxfordshire]], leaving hundreds homeless and thousands of vehicles stranded on major roads.
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| − | * [[July 22]] - [[Turkish general election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] took place in [[Turkey]].
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| − | * [[July 22]] - [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] [[Asashoryu]] conquers the [[Emperor's Cup]] at the Nagoya Grand [[Sumo]] Tournament (Nagoya Basho) in [[Nagoya]], Japan.
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| − | * [[July 27]] - Two television news [[helicopter]]s [[2007 Phoenix news helicopter collision|collide in midair]] while covering a police chase in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], killing both pilots and two [[photojournalist]]s.
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| − | * [[July 27]] - [[Nikola Radosavljevic]] shot dead nine people in village [[Jabukovac]] in eastern [[Serbia]] and wounded two.
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| − | * [[July 29]] - The ruling coalition of [[Japan]] lost its majority in the upper house after the [[Japanese House of Councillors election, 2007|election]].
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| − | * [[July 29]] - [[Iraq national football team|Iraq]] wins its first [[2007 AFC Asian Cup|Asian Cup]] football championship, beating [[Saudi Arabia national football team|Saudi Arabia]] 1-0.
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| − | * [[July 30]] - New British Prime Minister [[Gordon Brown]] visits U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] for the first time as Prime Minister.
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| − | * [[August 1]] - The [[I-35W Mississippi River Bridge]] on [[Interstate 35W (Minnesota)|I-35W]] over the [[Mississippi River]] in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]] between University Avenue and Washington Avenue collapses at 6:05 pm CST during the later part of [[rush hour]], killing 13 people.
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| − | * [[August 1]] - [[Scouting]] celebrates its [[Scouting 2007 Centenary|100th birthday]] with worldwide celebrations.
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| − | * [[August 3]] - A strain of [[foot and mouth disease]] is found on a farm at [[Wanborough, Surrey| Wanborough]], near to [[Guildford]], [[Surrey]]. Gordon Brown holds a [[Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms| COBRA]] meeting by phone on the outbreak. For more information see [[2007 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak]].
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| − | * [[August 4]] - A [[United Kingdom|UK]]-wide ban on movement of all livestock is in place after foot and mouth disease is found on the Surrey farm.
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| − | * [[August 4]] - Smoking in public places is banned in [[Slovenia]].
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| − | [[Image:I-35W bridge collapse TLR1.jpg|thumb|right|[[I-35W Mississippi River Bridge]] collapse.]]
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| − | * [[August 4]] - The [[Phoenix spacecraft]] launches toward the Martian north pole.
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| − | * [[August 6]] - [[Israel]]i Prime Minister [[Ehud Olmert]] arrives in historic Palestianian town of [[Jericho]], becoming the first Prime Minister of Israel to visit the [[West Bank]] or [[Gaza Strip]] in over seven years. Olmert met with Palestinian Authority President [[Mahmoud Abbas]].
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| − | * [[August 6]] - The [[Crandall Canyon Mine]] in [[Emery County]], [[Utah]] collapses, trapping six miners.
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| − | * [[August 7]] - [[Barry Bonds]] breaks Hank Aaron's home run record by hitting his 756th home run.
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| − | * [[August 8]] - The [[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'']] is successfully launched on mission [[STS-118]].
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| − | * [[August 8]] - The 21st [[World Scout Jamboree]] at Hylands Park, Essex closes.
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| − | * [[August 9]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] loses 387.18 points, its largest single-day drop since [[February 27]].
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| − | * [[August 4]]-[[August 11]] - The [[National Eisteddfod of Wales]] is held at [[Mold, Flintshire|Mold]], [[Flintshire]], [[Wales]].
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| − | * [[August 4]]-[[August 11]] - The 92nd [[World Congress of Esperanto]] is held in [[Yokohama]], [[Japan]].
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| − | * [[August 11]] - [[Sierra Leonean general election, 2007|Presidential and parliamentary elections]] were held in [[Sierra Leone]].
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| − | * [[August 12]] - [[Tiger Woods]] wins [[PGA Championship]], his 13th career major.
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| − | * [[August 14]] - [[Pakistan]] marks the 60th anniversary of their independence from the [[British Empire]].
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| − | * [[August 14]] - Multiple suicide bombings [[2007 Qahtaniya bombings|kill 572 people]] in [[Kahtaniya|Qahtaniya]], northern [[Iraq]].
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| − | * [[August 14]] - At least 22 people are killed, and at least 39 missing, as a bridge collapses in the southeastern province of [[Hunan]], [[People's Republic of China|China]].
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| − | * [[August 15]] - [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] referee [[Tim Donaghy]] surrenders to police and pleads guilty to charges brought up by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] investigation that he placed bets on games that he refereed.
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| − | * [[August 15]] - [[India]] marks the 60th anniversary of their independence from the [[British Empire]].
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| − | * [[August 15]] - An [[2007 Peru earthquake|8.0 earthquake]] strikes [[Peru]], killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing [[tsunami]] warnings in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
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| − | * [[August 16]] - The [[Crandall Canyon Mine]] in [[Emery County]], [[Utah]], collapses a second time, killing three rescue workers and injuring six more.
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| − | * [[August 17]] [[Vladimir Putin]] issues a statement, revealing that [[Russia]] is to resume the flight exercises of its [[Strategic bombers]] in remote areas. The flights were suspended in [[1991]] after the [[Collapse of the Soviet Union]].
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| − | * [[August 18]] - [[Typhoon Sepat (2007)|Typhoon Sepat]] makes landfall in eastern [[Taiwan]].
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| − | * [[August 21]] - [[Hurricane Dean (2007)|Hurricane Dean]], a powerful [[Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale|Category 5]] storm, slams into a largely evacuated [[Yucatán Peninsula]] of [[Mexico]].
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| − | * [[August 21]] - [[STS-118]] lands at the [[Kennedy Space Center]], completing [[Space Shuttle Endeavour]]'s 19th flight.
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| − | * [[August 22]] - The [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] score thirty [[Run (baseball)|runs]] in one game, setting the modern (post-[[1900]]) [[Major League Baseball|MLB]] record for most runs by one team in a single game, in a 30-3 victory over the [[Baltimore Orioles]].
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| − | [[Image:25August 2007 Greek fires.jpg|thumb|160px|Rapidfire – NASA image of the [[2007 Greek Forest Fires|Greek wildfires]], taken on 25 August.]]
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| − | * [[August 25]] - [[Greece|Greek]] Prime Minister [[Kostas Karamanlis]] declares a national [[state of emergency]] after a series of [[2007 Greek forest fires|devastating wildfires]] ravage western [[Peloponese]] and southern [[Euboea]], killing 68 people.
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| − | * [[August 25]] - [[25 August 2007 Hyderabad bombings|Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode]] in [[Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh|Hyderabad]], [[India]].
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| − | * [[August 27]] - [[United States Attorney General]] [[Alberto Gonzales]] announced his resignation, to be effective [[September 17]].
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| − | * [[August 24]]-[[September 2]] - The [[2007 World Championships in Athletics]] was held at [[Nagai Stadium]] in [[Osaka, Osaka|Osaka]], [[Japan]].
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| − | * [[August 28]] - [[Abdullah Gül]] is [[Turkish presidential election, 2007|elected]] as the [[List of Presidents of Turkey|eleventh]] [[President of Turkey]] by the [[Grand National Assembly of Turkey|Turkish Parliament]], after secularist concerns delayed his initial candidacy.
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| − | * [[August 30]] - [[2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident]] in which a [[B-52]] flew from [[Minot AFB]], ND to [[Barksdale AFB]], LA carrying 6 nuclear warheads.
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| − | * [[September 1]] - [[Finland]] switches off all of its [[analogue television|analogue]] [[terrestrial television]] signals as part of the [[digital switchover]].
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| − | * [[September 2]]-[[September 9]] - The [[Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation]] hosts its [[APEC Australia 2007|19th annual city meeting]] in [[Sydney]].
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| − | * [[September 3]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] troops withdraw from the [[Basra]] region of [[Iraq]].
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| − | * [[September 4]] - Northeast [[Nicaragua]] takes a direct hit from [[Hurricane Felix (2007)|Hurricane Felix]]. The hurricane was a strong [[Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale|Category 5]] storm when it reached the coast.
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| − | * [[September 6]] - A bomb explodes in [[Batna, Algeria]] as a crowd gathered to see Algerian President [[Abdelaziz Bouteflika]]. Nineteen people died, while 107 were wounded by the attack.
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| − | * [[September 7]] - The [[Rugby World Cup 2007]] starts in [[France]].
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| − | * [[September 8]] - Over 50 people die when car bomb explodes in the [[Algeria]]n port city of [[Dellys]].
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| − | * [[September 9]] - The [[Guatemalan general election, 2007|general election in Guatemala]] elects the [[President of Guatemala|president]], vice president, [[Congress of Guatemala|congressmen]], municipal mayors, and representatives to [[Parlacen]].
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| − | * [[September 10]]-[[September 30]] - The [[2007 FIFA Women's World Cup]] is held in [[People's Republic of China|China]].
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| − | * [[September 11]] Russia unveils the [[FOAB]].
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| − | * [[September 11]]-[[September 24]] - Inaugural [[2007 ICC World Twenty20|Twenty20 World Championship]] is held.
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| − | * [[September 12]] - The [[Sandiganbayan]] found former [[Philippines]] President [[Joseph Estrada]] guilty beyond reasonable doubt on the charges of [[plunder]] but acquitted on the charges of [[perjury]].
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| − | * [[September 12]] - [[Japan]]ese Prime Minister [[Shinzo Abe]] announces his resignation, to be effective [[September 19]].
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| − | * [[September 12]] - [[Russia]]n Prime Minister [[Mikhail Fradkov]] and [[Mikhail Fradkov's Second Cabinet|his entire cabinet]] resign.
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| − | * [[September 13]] - The [[Burj Dubai]] became the world's tallest free standing structure after surpassing the [[CN Tower]] in [[Toronto]].
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| − | * [[September 14]] - The [[SELENE]] spacecraft launches. [[Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency|JAXA]] has called the mission, "the largest [[Moon|lunar]] mission since the [[Apollo program]]."
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| − | * [[September 14]] - [[Viktor Zubkov]] is approved as the new [[Prime Minister of Russia]] after a vote in the [[State Duma|Duma]].
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| − | * [[September 15]] - Over 3000 [[Taiwanese American]]s and their supporters rallied in front of [[UN]] in [[New York City]] to demonstrate the dedication that UN should accept Taiwan. At the same time, over 300,000 [[Taiwanese people]] rallied in Taiwan to make the same plea.
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| − | * [[September 16]] - [[One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269]] crashes in [[Phuket]], [[Thailand]] , killing 89 of the passengers and crew.
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| − | * [[September 18]] - The [[Federal Reserve]] cuts [[interest rates]] in the [[U.S]] by half a point (0.5%) for the first time since [[2006]] to ease the on-going panic in the [[financial markets]] due to the [[subprime]] crisis.
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| − | * [[September 19]] - [[2007 Pacific typhoon season#Typhoon Wipha .28Goring.29|Typhoon Wipha]] hits [[Fuding]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]. Authorities had evacuated over two million people prior to the storm's landfall.
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| − | * [[September 20]] - Opening of the [[2007 Universal Forum of Cultures]], in the city of [[Monterrey]], [[Mexico]].
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| − | * [[September 21]] - The [[Supreme Court of Chile]] rules that former [[Peru]]vian [[List of Presidents of Peru|President]] [[Alberto Fujimori]] must be extradited to Peru so Fujimori can face charges of corruption and human rights abuse.
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| − | [[Image:2007 Myanmar protests 11 (M-cropped).jpg|thumb|150px|Myanmar protests]]
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| − | * [[September 23]] - [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] [[Hakuho]] won the [[Emperor's Cup]] at the Autumn Grand [[Sumo]] Tournament (Aki Basho) in [[Tokyo]], Japan.
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| − | * [[September 24]] - [[Labour Party Conference#2007 Bournemouth|Labour Party Conferences]] in [[Bournemouth]] at which [[Gordon Brown]] addresses delegates for the first time as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]].
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| − | * [[September 24]] - [[India national cricket team|India]] won the [[2007 ICC World Twenty20|ICC Twenty20 WorldCup]] beating [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]] by 5 [[Run (cricket)|runs]].
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| − | * [[September 25]] - [[Microsoft]] released [[Halo 3]], made by [[Bungie Studios|Bungie Studios]] 3.3 Million copies have been sold and helped sell over 500,000 [[Xbox 360]]s.
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| − | * [[September 26]] - [[Emperor of Japan|Emperor]] [[Akihito]] formally swears in [[Yasuo Fukuda]] as the 91st [[Prime Minister of Japan]].
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| − | * [[September 26]] - First confirmed deaths resulting from the [[Myanmar]] military's crackdown on [[2007 Burmese anti-government protests|weeks long anti-government protests]]. [[Bhikkhu|Buddhist monks]] are arrested and [[Internet]] access is cut from the public.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,508395,00.html Spiegel:Internetverbindung nach Burma gekappt (German)] </ref>
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| − | * [[September 26]] - In southern [[Vietnam]] the [[Can Tho Bridge]], which is under construction, [[Collapse of Can Tho Bridge|collapses]], killing scores of workers.
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| − | * [[September 30]] - [[Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary re-elections]] occur in [[Ukraine]] after [[President of Ukraine|Ukrainian President]] [[Victor Yuschenko]] dismisses [[Parliament of Ukraine|Parliament]].
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| − | * [[October 1]] - The minimum age for purchasing [[tobacco]] products is raised from 16 to 18 across [[England and Wales]].
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| − | * [[October 2]] - The second [[Inter-Korean Summit]] begins. [[South Korea]]n [[President of South Korea|President]] [[Roh Moo-hyun]] and [[North Korea]]n leader [[Kim Jong-il]] meet in [[Pyongyang]].
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| − | * [[October 2]] - [[Los Ríos Region]] of [[Chile]] officially begins its functions as a new [[Regions of Chile|region]].
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| − | * [[October 4]] - [[Spain|Spanish]] authorities arrest 22 people associated with the banned [[Batasuna]] party which campaigns for [[Basque Country (historical territory)|Basque]] independence, but also has ties to the terrorist group [[ETA]].
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| − | * [[October 6]] - [[Pakistani presidential election, 2007|Presidential election]] occurs in [[Pakistan]].
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| − | * [[October 8]] - Track and field star [[Marion Jones]] surrenders her five [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] medals she won in the [[2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney Games]] after admitting to [[Doping (sport)|doping]].
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| − | * [[October 9]] - An [[Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2007|election]] is held in the Canadian province of [[Newfoundland and Labrador]].
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| − | * [[October 10]] - An [[Ontario general election, 2007|election and referendum in the Canadian province of Ontario]] takes place.
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| − | * [[October 10]] - The [[SuccessTech Academy shooting|SuccessTech Academy school shooting]] occurs in [[Cleveland, Ohio]].
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| − | *[[October 11]] - A small private plane crashes into a house in the [[Fontibon]] neighborhood near the [[El Dorado International Airport]] in [[Bogotá]], [[Colombia]], killing 5 on board and 2 in the house.
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| − | * [[October 13]] - [[New Zealand local body elections, 2007|Local Government Elections]] are held in [[New Zealand]].
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| − | * [[October 15]] - [[Menzies Campbell|Sir Menzies Campbell]] resigns as leader of the British [[Liberal Democrats]].
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| − | * [[October 15]] - The [[17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China]] takes place.
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| − | * [[October 17]] - [[Whitehaven#Digital Switchover Trial|Whitehaven]], England becomes the first place in the [[United Kingdom]] to have one of its analogue [[terrestrial television]] signals switched off as part of [[Digital switchover in the United Kingdom|digital switchover]].
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| − | [[Image:Wildfire California Santa Clarita.jpg|thumb|right|Flames burn [[Santa Clarita, California]] during the [[California wildfires of October 2007]].]]
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| − | * [[October 18]] - After 8 years in exile, [[Benazir Bhutto]] returns to her homeland [[Pakistan]]. The same night, suicide attackers [[2007 Karachi bombing|blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy]], killing 136 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured.
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| − | * [[October 19]] - A gas explosion rocked [[Glorietta]], a shopping mall in [[Makati]], [[Philippines]] which [[2007 Glorietta explosion|killed 11 and injured more than 100 people]].
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| − | * [[October 20]] - [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]'s governor [[Sonny Perdue]] declares state of emergency due to drought conditions.
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| − | * [[October 20]] - [[South Africa national rugby team|South Africa]] defeats [[England national rugby team|England]] at the [[Rugby World Cup 2007]] final in [[Stade de France]], [[Paris]].
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| − | * [[October 20]] - [[Jungle primary|Jungle (open) primary]] election are held for [[governor#United States|governor]] and the [[Louisiana State Legislature|legislature]] of the U.S. state of [[Louisiana]].
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| − | [[Image:Donald Tusk.jpg|thumb|right|[[Donald Tusk]]]]
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| − | * [[October 20]]–[[November 9]] - [[California wildfires of October 2007|Wildfires]] in [[Southern California]] result in the evacuation of more than 1,000,000 people and destroying over 1,600 homes and businesses.
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| − | * [[October 21]] - First round of the [[Slovenian presidential election, 2007|presidential elections]] in [[Slovenia]]. The second round is to be held on [[November 11]].
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| − | * [[October 21]] - [[Swiss federal election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] in [[Switzerland]].
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| − | * [[October 21]] - [[Civic Platform]] led by [[Donald Tusk]] wins a snap [[Polish parliamentary election, 2007|parliamentary election]] in [[Poland]].
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| − | * [[October 21]] - [[Kimi Räikkönen]] is crowned world champion as the [[2007 Formula One season]] ends at the [[Brazilian Grand Prix]].
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| − | * [[October 23]] - The [[Space Shuttle Discovery]] successfully launched on mission [[STS-120]].
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| − | * [[October 24]] - In the space of a few hours, [[17P/Holmes|Comet Holmes]] develops a coma and flares up to half a million times its former brightness, becoming visible to the naked eye. Its coma would later become larger in volume than the [[Sun]], making it the second comet to do so in 2007 after Comet McNaught.
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| − | *[[October 25]] - The first [[Airbus A380]] passenger flight, operating for [[Singapore Airlines]], with flight number SQ380, flew scheduled service between [[Singapore]] and [[Sydney]], [[Australia]].
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| − | *[[October 26]] - [[Apple Inc.]] launch the sixth major release of their Mac OS X operating system entitled, [[Mac OS X v10.5|Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard]].
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| − | *[[October 28]] - The [[Holy See|Vatican]] [[beatification|beatifies]] 498 [[Spain|Spanish]] victims of religious persecution from before and during the [[Spanish Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071028/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_spain_beatifications|title=Vatican beatifies 498 Spanish martyrs |publisher=Yahoo News |accessdate=2007-10-28}}</ref>
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| − | [[Image:Cristina Fernández de Kirchner - Foto Oficial 2.jpg|thumb|right|120px| [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]]]]
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| − | * [[October 28]] - [[Argentine general election, 2007|Elections in Argentina]] for the [[President of Argentina|President]] and members of the [[Argentine National Congress|National Congress]]. [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]] wins presidential elections and becomes the first female elected president in Argentina.
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| − | * [[October 28]] - The [[Boston Red Sox]] win the [[2007 World Series]] in a four-game sweep against the [[Colorado Rockies]].
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| − | * [[October 30]] - [[Brazil]] is announced as the host of the [[FIFA World Cup 2014]].
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| − | * [[October 31]] - A bus bomb in the central [[Russia]]n city of [[Tolyatti]] kills 8 and injures over 50 people.
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| − | * [[October 31]] - [[World Economic Forum]] releases [[Global Competitiveness Report|The Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008]], at 11:00 CET.
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| − | * [[November 1]] - The [[Election commission]] of [[Bangladesh]] is separated from the Judiciary department.
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| − | * [[November 1]] - [[Martina Hingis]] of [[Switzerland]] announced her second retirement from professional tennis due to doping allegations and injuries.
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| − | * [[November 1]] - [[London]]'s [[Metropolitan Police Service]] is found guilty of endangering the public following the fatal shooting of [[Jean Charles de Menezes]], an innocent [[Brazil]]ian who officers mistook for a [[suicide bomber]].
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| − | * [[November 2]] - Four firefighters feared dead in the [[2007 Atherstone fire disaster]].
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| − | * [[November 3]] - President [[Pervez Musharraf]] declares [[2007 Pakistani state of emergency|state of emergency]] in [[Pakistan]].
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| − | * [[November 3]] - [[DARPA Grand Challenge]], a prized competition for driverless cars to navigate safely in traffic is scheduled.
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| − | * [[November 4]] - [[Álvaro Colom]] wins the second round of the [[Guatemalan general election, 2007|presidential elections]] in [[Guatemala]].
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| − | * [[November 4]] - Reformation Sunday is observed by [[Lutherans]] and other Protestants around the world, to commemorate the 490th anniversary ([[October 31]]) of the [[Ninety-Five Theses]], which began the [[Protestant Reformation]].
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| − | * [[November 5]] - The [[2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike|Writers Guild of America goes on a strike]] that lasts until February 12, 2008.
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| − | * [[November 6]] - A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people in [[Mazari Sharif]], [[Afghanistan]]. Among the dead are 6 members of the [[National Assembly of Afghanistan|National Assembly]].
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| − | * [[November 6]] - [[United States general elections, 2007|Legislative elections]] are held in the U.S. states of [[Kentucky]], [[Mississippi]], [[New Jersey]], and [[Virginia]]; Kentucky and Mississippi also hold [[United States gubernatorial elections, 2007|gubernatorial elections]].
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| − | * [[November 7]] - The [[Jokela school shooting]] occurs. [[Finland|Finnish]] youth Pekka-Eric Auvinen shoots dead 8 people and wounds one at the Jokela School Centre.
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| − | * [[November 7]] - A 48 hour long [[state of emergency]] for [[Tbilisi]] is declared by [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] President [[Mikheil Saakashvili]] due to the [[2007 Georgian demonstrations|intense anti-government protests]] that have gripped the capital city.
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| − | * [[November 8]] - The [[Latin Grammy Awards of 2007|8th annual Latin Grammy Awards]] were held at the [[Mandalay Bay Events Center]] at [[Mandalay Bay]] on the [[Las Vegas Strip]] in [[Paradise, Nevada]], [[United States|USA]], near [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]].
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| − | * [[November 11]] - [[Slovenia]]ns vote in the final round of the [[Slovenian presidential election, 2007|nation's presidential elections]]. [[Danilo Türk]] won the race with 68.26% of the vote.
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| − | * [[November 13]] - An [[Batasang Pambansa bombing|explosion]] hits the south wing of the [[House of Representatives of the Philippines|House of Representatives]] of the [[Philippines]] in [[Quezon City]], north of [[Manila]], killing four people, including [[Basilan]] Congressman [[Wahab Akbar]], and wounding 6 others.
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| − | * [[November 13]] - [[Danish parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] in [[Denmark]]. Prime Minister [[Anders Fogh Rasmussen]]'s coalition wins a third term.
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| − | * [[November 14]] - [[High Speed 1]] from [[London]] to the [[Channel Tunnel]] is opened to passengers.
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| − | * [[November 14]] - A [[2007 Antofagasta earthquake|7.7 magnitude earthquake occurs]] in northern [[Chile]].
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| − | * [[November 16]] - Over 3,000 people are believed to have died after [[Cyclone Sidr]] hits [[Bangladesh]], with the death toll expected to rise.
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| − | * [[November 17]] - [[Kosovan parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] in [[Kosovo]].
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| − | * [[November 18]] - The [[2007 Zasyadko mine disaster|Zasyadko mine disaster]] in eastern [[Ukraine]] claims the lives of 101 miners.
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| − | [[Image:KevinRuddZoom.JPG|thumb|right|120px| [[Kevin Rudd]]]]
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| − | * [[November 20]] - The UK's [[HM Revenue and Customs]] admits that it has misplaces two computer discs which contained the records of child benefit claimants data, including bank details and [[National Insurance]] numbers, in the United Kingdom, leaving up to 7.25 million households susceptible to identity theft.
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| − | * [[November 21]] - [[Senegal]]ese street vendors riot in [[Dakar]] after government attempts to ban them from operating in the center of the capital city.
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| − | * [[November 21]] - [[Calcutta]] - Protests over Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen turn into deadly riots, troops are deployed. <ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7105277.stm |title=Army deployed after Calcutta riot}}</ref>
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| − | * [[November 22]] - [[Vladimer Gurgenidze]] becomes the 17th [[Prime Minister of Georgia]].
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| − | * [[November 24]] - [[Australian Labor Party]] wins the [[Australian federal election, 2007|federal election]] in [[Australia]]; Labor leader [[Kevin Rudd]] is elected to succeed [[John Howard]] as [[Prime Minister of Australia]].
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| − | * [[November 24]] - Police broke up [[2007 Russian protests|anti-Putin demonstrations]] in [[Saint Petersburg]] and [[Moscow]].
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| − | * [[November 24]] - The National [[Australian Football League]] draft will take place.
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| − | * [[November 25]] - A [[European Parliament election, 2007|European Parliament election]] will take place in [[Romania]].
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| − | * [[November 25]] - [[Croatian parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] is held in [[Croatia]].
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| − | * [[November 25]] - [[Nawaz Sharif]] makes a second attempt to return to Pakistan along with his brother [[Shahbaz Sharif]] and other family members.
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| − | * [[November 25]] - [[2007 civil unrest in Villiers-le-Bel (France)|Riots continue for a second night]] in [[Val-d'Oise]], [[France]] following the death of two youths in a motorcycle collision with a police vehicle.
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| − | * [[November 27]] - [[UNDP|United Nations Development Programme]] releases the 2007/2008 [[Human Development Report]].
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| − | [[Image:20071127 Abbas speech at Annapolis Conference.jpg|thumb|[[Mahmoud Abbas]] addresses the [[Annapolis Conference]].]]
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| − | * [[November 27]] - The [[Annapolis Conference]], a peace conference trying to end the [[Arab-Israeli conflict]], is held in Annapolis, Maryland in the United States.
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| − | * [[November 28]] - [[President of Pakistan]] [[Pervez Musharraf]] stands down as the head of the [[Pakistan Army]] and was successed by Lt. General [[Ashfaq Parvez Kayani]].
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| − | * [[November 29]] - The [[Armed Forces of the Philippines]] lays siege to [[The Peninsula Manila]] after soldiers led by [[Senate of the Philippines|Senator]] [[Antonio Trillanes]] stage a [[Manila Peninsula Mutiny|mutiny]].
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| − | * [[November 30]] - The [[2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season]] officially ends.
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| − | * [[November 30]] - [[Atlasjet Flight 4203]] crashes near [[Keçiborlu]], [[Turkey]], killing all 56 people on board.
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| − | * [[December 2]] - [[United Russia]] wins [[Russian legislative election, 2007|parliamentary elections]] in [[Russia]], increasing their majority with 60% of the votes.
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| − | * [[December 2]] - [[Venezuela]]n President [[Hugo Chávez]]'s proposed changes to the [[Constitution of Venezuela|Venezuelan constitution]] are narrowly defeated in [[Venezuelan constitutional referendum, 2007|a nationwide referendum]].
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| − | * [[December 3]] - [[Kevin Rudd]] is sworn in as the [[Prime Minister of Australia|26th Prime Minister of Australia]], by [[Governor-General of Australia|Governor General]] [[Michael Jeffery|Major-General Michael Jeffery]].
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| − | * [[December 3]] - [[December 14|14]] - [[United Nations Climate Change Conference]] at [[Nusa Dua]] in [[Bali]], [[Indonesia]]
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| − | * [[December 4]] - [[Programme for International Student Assessment|The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)]] releases the results of the PISA 2006 survey.
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| − | * [[December 5]] - 19-year old Robert A. Hawkins [[Westroads Mall shooting|shoots eight people dead and injures five at the Westroads Mall]] in [[Omaha]], [[Nebraska]], then commits suicide.
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| − | * [[December 6]] - A [[pipe bomb]] explodes in a law office in [[Paris]], [[France]], killing one person.
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| − | * [[December 7]] - [[Uranus]]' [[orbit]] will be positioned such that the [[sun]] shines directly above its [[equator]] (i.e. an [[equinox]])
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| − | * [[December 8]] - [[2007 Africa-EU Summit]] takes place as [[European Union]] and [[African Union]] leaders gather in [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]], for their first joint summit in seven years. The [[United Kingdom|British]] and [[Czech Republic|Czech]] prime ministers boycott the event due to the presence of [[List of Presidents of Zimbabwe|Zimbabwean President]] [[Robert Mugabe]].
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| − | * [[December 10]] - The [[United Nations]] deadline for a negotiated settlement on the future of [[Kosovo]] passed without an international agreement.
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| − | * [[December 10]] - [[Led Zeppelin]] reunites in [[London]], [[England]], for the [[Ahmet Ertegün]] tribute.
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| − | * [[December 11]] - In [[Algiers]], [[Algeria]], [[11 December 2007 Algiers bombings|two bombs explode within ten minutes of each other]], the first near a UN office and the other detonated close to the Algerian Supreme Court. The official death count for both blasts stands as 31.
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| − | * [[December 12]] - Election by the [[Swiss Federal Assembly|Swiss Parliament]] of [[Switzerland]]'s highest executive authority, the [[Swiss Federal Council]] (7 members). All the sitting members are confirmed, except [[Christoph Blocher]], who in an upset is replaced by [[Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf]]. This is only the sixth time in Swiss history a sitting member is not reconfirmed.
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| − | * [[December 13]] - European leaders sign the [[Treaty of Lisbon]] in [[Lisbon]].
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| − | * [[December 13]] - Entry into force of the revised version of the [[European Patent Convention]] (EPC), known as the [[EPC 2000]].
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| − | * [[December 13]] - Former US Senator [[George J. Mitchell]] publicly releases a [[Mitchell Report (baseball)|report]] accusing 89 retired and active [[Major League Baseball]] players of [[anabolic steroid]] use.
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| − | [[Image:Lee Myung-bak-2005.jpg|thumb|right|120px| [[Lee Myung-bak]]]]
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| − | * [[December 14]]-[[December 24]] - [[Fédération Aéronautique Internationale|FAI]] World [[Grand Prix gliding|Grand Prix]] Gliding Championship at [[Omarama]], [[New Zealand]].
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| − | * [[December 15]] - [[President of Pakistan]] [[Pervez Musharraf]] had lifted the [[2007 Pakistani state of emergency|State of Emergency]] in [[Pakistan]].
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| − | * [[December 16]] - [[Kyrgyzstani parliamentary election, 2007|Parliamentary elections]] in [[Kyrgyzstan]].
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| − | * [[December 18]] - The [[Verkhovna Rada]] has approved [[Yulia Tymoshenko]] to become [[Prime Minister of Ukraine|Prime Minister]] of [[Ukraine]].
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| − | * [[December 18]] - [[Jacob Zuma]] is elected president of the [[African National Congress]] political party in [[South Africa]] during the [[52nd National Conference of the African National Congress|party's national conference]].
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| − | * [[December 19]] - A [[South Korean presidential election, 2007|presidential election]] takes place in [[South Korea]]. Former [[Mayor of Seoul|mayor]] of [[Seoul]] [[Lee Myung-bak]], of the [[Grand National Party]], won with 50% of the vote against two other major opponents.
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| − | * [[December 19]] - [[Vladimir Putin]], [[President of Russia]], is announced as [[Time (magazine)|Time magazine's]] 2007 [[Person of the Year]].
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| − | * [[December 19]] - An explosion and fire at the [[T2 Laboratories]] facility in [[Jacksonville, Florida]] kills 4 and injures 14.
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| − | * [[December 19]] - The ''[[Flying Phantom]]'' sinks in the [[River Clyde]], three crew are killed.
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| − | * [[December 20]] - A group of activist [[Lakota people|Lakota]] Indians send a letter to the [[United States]] [[State Department]] declaring their secession from the Union.
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| − | * [[December 20]] - An [[2007 Gisborne earthquake|earthquake]] of magnitude 6.6 [[Richter magnitude scale|M<sub>L</sub>]] hits the east coast of the [[North Island]] of [[New Zealand]], causing one death and significant damage in the town of [[Gisborne, New Zealand|Gisborne]].
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| − | * [[December 20]] - The painting ''[[Portrait of Suzanne Bloch]]'' ([[1904]]), by the Spanish artist [[Pablo Picasso]], was stolen from the [[São Paulo Museum of Art]], together with ''O Lavrador de Café'' [http://ritualcafe.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/lavrador-de-cafe.jpg], by the major Brazilian modernist painter [[Candido Portinari]].
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| − | * [[December 21]] - [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] became 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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| − | * [[December 21]] - The [[Czech Republic]], [[Estonia]], [[Hungary]], [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Malta]], [[Poland]], [[Slovakia]], and [[Slovenia]] join the [[Schengen Agreement|Schengen]] border-free zone.
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| − | * [[December 23]] - A [[Conjunction (astronomy and astrology)#2007|grand conjunction]] in which the solar system will align with the galactic center.
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| − | * [[December 23]] - A [[Thai general election, 2007|general election]] is held in [[Thailand]]. The [[People's Power Party (Thailand)|People's Power Party]], which is associated with former Prime Minster [[Thaksin Shinawatra]], wins a majority of seats in the [[Parliament of Thailand|parliament]].
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| − | * [[December 23]] - [[Uzbekistani presidential election, 2007|Presidential election]] in [[Uzbekistan]].
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| − | * [[December 24]] - The [[Nepal]]ese government announces that the country's 240-year-old [[Nepalese monarchy|monarchy]] will be abolished in [[2008]] and a new [[republic]] will be declared.
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| − | * [[December 25]] - An overcrowded suspension bridge collapsed near [[Nepalgunj]], [[Nepal]]. At least 15 people are dead, with 100 to 200 missing.
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| − | * [[December 25]] - An escaped [[San Francisco Zoo tiger attacks|tiger]] at the [[San Francisco Zoo]] kills one person and injures two others.
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| − | * [[December 25]] - [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] broadcasts her 50th televised [[Royal Christmas Message]] to the [[Commonwealth]].
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| − | * [[December 27]] - Former [[Pakistan]]i prime minister [[Benazir Bhutto]] is assassinated, and at least 20 others are [[Assassination of Benazir Bhutto|killed by a bomb blast]] at an election rally in [[Rawalpindi]].
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| − | * [[December 27]] - [[Kenyan presidential election, 2007|Presidential]] and [[Kenyan parliamentary election, 2007|parliamentary elections]] took place in [[Kenya]].
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| − | * [[December 29]] - After defeating the [[New York Giants]] 38-35, the [[New England Patriots]] become the second team in [[National Football League|NFL]] history to finish the regular season undefeated.
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| − | * [[December 31]] - Over 200 people are killed in [[Kenya]] due to riots over the results of the [[Kenyan presidential election, 2007|presidential election]] which occurred on December 27.
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| − | * [[December 31]] - The [[Big Dig (Boston, Massachusetts)|Big Dig project]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] is completed.
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| − | ==Ongoing==
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| − | * [[Iraq War]]
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| − | * [[War in Afghanistan]]
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| − | * [[Conflict in Darfur]]
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| − | * [[Israeli-Palestinian conflict]]
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| − | ==Births==
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| − | * [[February 28]] - [[HRH]] [[Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco]], daughter of [[Mohammed VI of Morocco|Mohammed VI]] of [[Morocco]] and his wife, [[Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco|Princess Lalla Salma]].
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| − | * [[March 12]] - [[Xan Windsor, Lord Culloden]], son of [[Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster]] and [[Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster]].
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| − | * [[March 14]] - [[Simeon Hassan Muñoz]], son of [[Princess Kalina of Bulgaria]] and [[Antonio "Kitín" Muñoz Valcárcel|Kitín Muñoz]].
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| − | * [[March 17]] - [[HRH]] Prince [[Abdul Muntaqim]], son of [[HRH]] [[Al-Muhtadee Billah]] and his wife, [[HRH]] [[Pengiran Anak Sarah]], the Crown Prince and Princess of Brunei.
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| − | * [[March 19]] - [[HRH]] [[Prince Abdullah bin Al Ali]], son of [[Prince Ali bin Al Hussein]] and Rym Brahimi.
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| − | * [[April 7]] - [[HRH]] [[Princess Haalah bint Al Hashim]], daughter of [[Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein]] and Princess Fahdah Mohammed Abu Neyan.
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| − | * [[April 10]] - [[HRH]] [[Princess Ariane of the Netherlands]], daughter of [[Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange|Prince Willem-Alexander]] and [[Princess Máxima of the Netherlands|Princess Máxima]].
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| − | * [[April 18]] - [[HRH]] [[Princess Hayah bint Al Hamzah]], daughter of [[Prince Hamzah]] and Princess Noor bint Asem bin Nayef.
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| − | * [[April 18]] - [[HRH]] [[Prince Lerotholi Seeiso]], son of King [[Letsie III of Lesotho]] and Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso.
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| − | * [[April 21]] - [[HRH]] [[Princess Isabella of Denmark]], daughter of [[Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark|Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark]] and his wife, [[Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark|Crown Princess Mary]].
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| − | * [[April 29]] - [[HRH]] [[Infanta Sofía of Spain]], daughter of [[Felipe, Prince of Asturias]] and his wife, [[Letizia, Princess of Asturias]].
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| − | * [[September 22]] - [[Albert Windsor]], son of [[Lord Nicholas Windsor]] and [[Lady Nicholas Windsor|Paola Doimi de Frankopan]].
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| − | * [[December 17]] - [[James Windsor, Viscount Severn]], son of [[Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex]] and [[Sophie, The Countess of Wessex]].
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| − | ==Deaths==
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| − | ===January===
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Leonard Fraser]], Australian serial killer (b. [[1951]])
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Ernie Koy]], American baseball player (b. [[1909]])
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Darrent Williams]], American football player (b. [[1982]])
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| − | * [[January 2]] - [[Teddy Kollek]], Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. [[1911]])
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| − | * [[January 3]] - [[Sergio Jiménez]], Mexican actor (b. [[1937]])
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| − | * [[January 4]] - [[Marais Viljoen]], State [[President of South Africa]] (b. [[1915]])
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| − | * [[January 5]] - [[Momofuku Ando]], Japanese inventor (b. [[1910]])
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| − | * [[January 6]] - [[Mario Danelo]], American college football player (b. [[1985]])
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| − | * [[January 7]] - [[Bobby Hamilton]], American race car driver (b. [[1957]])
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| − | * [[January 7]] - [[Magnus Magnusson]], Icelandic-born television presenter (b. [[1929]])
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| − | * [[January 8]] - [[Iwao Takamoto]], Japanese animator (b. [[1925]])
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| − | * [[January 8]] - [[Yvonne de Carlo]], American actress (b. [[1922]])
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| − | * [[January 9]] - [[Jean-Pierre Vernant]], French historian and anthropologist (b. [[1914]])
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| − | * [[January 10]] - [[Carlo Ponti]], Italian film producer (b. [[1912]])
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| − | * [[January 11]] - [[Robert Anton Wilson]], American author and conspiracy researcher (b. [[1932]])
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| − | * [[January 12]] - [[Alice Coltrane]], American jazz musician (b. [[1937]])
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| − | * [[January 13]] - [[Michael Brecker]], American jazz musician (b. [[1949]])
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| − | * [[January 13]] - [[Henri-Jean Martin]], French expert on book history (b. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[January 14]] - [[Darlene Conley]], American actress (b. [[1934]])
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| − | * [[January 14]] - [[Barbara Kelly]], Canadian actress (b. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[January 15]] - [[Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti]], Iraqi politician (b. [[1951]])
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| − | * [[January 15]] - [[Awad Hamed al-Bandar]], Iraqi judge (b. [[1945]])
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| − | * [[January 15]] - [[Bo Yibo]], Chinese politician (b. [[1908]])
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| − | * [[January 16]] - [[Benny Parsons]], American race car driver and television personality (b. [[1941]])
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| − | * [[January 17]] - [[Art Buchwald]], American humorist (b. [[1925]])
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| − | * [[January 19]] - [[Hrant Dink]], Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. [[1954]])
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| − | * [[January 19]] - [[Denny Doherty]], Canadian musician ([[The Mamas and the Papas]]) (b. [[1940]])
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| − | * [[January 19]] - [[Bam Bam Bigelow]], American wrestler (b. [[1961]])
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| − | * [[January 21]] - [[U;Nee]], South Korean singer and actress (b. [[1981]])
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| − | * [[January 22]] - [[Abbé Pierre]], French priest and founder of Emmaus (b. [[1912]])
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| − | * [[January 22]] - [[Carlos Olivier]], Venezuelan actor (b. [[1952]])
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| − | * [[January 23]] - [[Disco D|David Aaron Shayman aka Disco D]], American music producer and composer (b. [[1980]])
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| − | * [[January 23]] - [[Ryszard Kapuscinski]], Polish journalist and author (b. [[1932]])
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| − | * [[January 26]] - [[Gump Worsley]], Canadian hockey player (b. [[1929]])
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| − | * [[January 28]] - [[Cyril Demarne]], British wartime firefighter (b. [[1905]])
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| − | * [[January 28]] - [[Hsu Wei Lun]], Taiwanese actress (b. [[1978]])
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| − | * [[January 30]] - [[Sidney Sheldon]], American author and screenwriter (b. [[1917]])
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| − | * [[January 31]] - [[Kirka Babitzin]], Finnish singer (b. [[1950]])
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| − | * [[January 31]] - [[Lee Bergere]], American actor (b. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[January 31]] - [[Molly Ivins]], American columnist (b. [[1944]])
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| − | ===February===
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| − | [[Image:Anna Nicole Smith.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Anna Nicole Smith]]]]
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| − | * [[February 1]] - [[Gian Carlo Menotti]], Italian-born composer and librettist (b. [[1911]])
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| − | * [[February 3]] - [[Pedro Knight]], Cuban-born musician (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[February 3]] - [[Billy Henderson (American singer)|Billy Henderson]], American singer ([[The Spinners (U.S. band)|The Spinners]]) (b. [[1939]])
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| − | * [[February 6]] - [[Frankie Laine]], American singer (b. [[1913]])
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| − | * [[February 7]] - [[Alan MacDiarmid]], New Zealand chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1927]])
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| − | * [[February 7]] - [[Helen Duncan (politician)|Helen Duncan]], New Zealand politician (b. [[1941]])
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| − | * [[February 8]] - [[Anna Nicole Smith]], American model and television personality (b. [[1967]])
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| − | * [[February 9]] - [[Benedict Kiely]], Irish author and broadcaster (b. [[1919]])
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| − | * [[February 9]] - [[Ian Richardson]], Scottish actor (b. [[1934]])
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| − | * [[February 9]] - [[Alejandro Finisterre]], Spanish poet, editor, and inventor of table football (b. [[1919]])
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| − | * [[February 10]] - [[Jung Da Bin]], Korean actress (b. [[1980]])
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| − | * [[February 11]] - [[Reginald Hugh Hickling]], British lawyer, colonial civil servant, law academic and author (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[February 12]] - [[Peggy Gilbert]], American saxophonist (b. [[1905]])
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| − | * [[February 13]] - [[Elizabeth Jolley]], Australian writer (b. [[1923]])
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| − | [[Image:Bruce Bennett in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre trailer.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Bruce Bennett]]]]
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| − | * [[February 13]] - [[Charlie Norwood|Charles Norwood]], American politician (b. [[1941]])
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| − | * [[February 13]] - [[Eliana Ramos]], Uruguayan model (b. [[1988]])
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| − | * [[February 13]] - [[Johanna Sällström]], Swedish actress (b. [[1974]])
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| − | * [[February 15]] - [[Robert Adler]], Austrian-born inventor (b. [[1913]])
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| − | * [[February 17]] - [[Maurice Papon]], French Vichy government official (b. [[1910]])
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| − | * [[February 17]] - [[Dermot O'Reilly]], Irish-born musician ([[Ryan's Fancy]]) (b. [[1942]])
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| − | * [[February 17]] - [[Mike Awesome]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1965]])
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| − | * [[February 18]] - [[Juan "Pachín" Vicéns]], Puerto Rican basketball player (b. [[1933]])
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| − | [[Image:ArthurMSchlesingerJrCalcutta.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]]]]
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| − | * [[February 22]] - [[Lothar-Günther Buchheim]], German author, painter, and art collector (b. [[1918]])
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| − | * [[February 22]] - [[Fons Rademakers]], Dutch film director (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[February 22]] - [[Dennis Johnson]], American basketball player (b. [[1954]])
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| − | * [[February 24]] - [[Damien Nash]], American football player (b. [[1982]])
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| − | * [[February 24]] - [[Bruce Bennett]], American actor (b. [[1906]])
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| − | * [[February 27]] - [[Bobby Rosengarden]], American drummer (b. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[February 28]] - [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]], American historian and political commentator (b. [[1917]])
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| − | * [[February 28]] - [[Billy Thorpe]], Australian musician ([[Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs]]) (b. [[1946]])
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| − | * [[February 28]] - [[Charles Forte]], English hotelier (b. [[1908]])
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| − | ===March===
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| − | * [[March 2]] - [[Henri Troyat]], French writer (b. [[1911]])
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| − | * [[March 2]] - [[Madi Phala]], South African artist (b. [[1955]])
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| − | * [[March 3]] - [[Warja Honegger-Lavater]], Swiss illustrator (b. [[1913]])
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| − | * [[March 4]] - [[Natalie Bodanya]], American soprano (b. [[1908]])
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| − | * [[March 4]] - [[Thomas Eagleton]], American politician (b. [[1929]])
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| − | * [[March 4]] - [[Bob Hattoy]], American activist (b. [[1950]])
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| − | * [[March 4]] - [[Richard Joseph]], British game music composer (b. [[1954]])
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| − | * [[March 4]] - [[Sunil Kumar Mahato]], Indian parliamentarian (b. [[1966]])
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| − | [[Image:WikipediaBaudrillard20040612.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Jean Baudrillard]]]]
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| − | * [[March 4]] - [[Tadeusz Nalepa]], Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. [[1934]])
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| − | * [[March 4]] - [[Ian Wooldridge]], British sports journalist (b. [[1932]])
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| − | * [[March 6]] - [[Jean Baudrillard]], French philosopher and sociologist (b. [[1929]])
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| − | * [[March 6]] - [[Allen Coage]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1943]])
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| − | * [[March 6]] - [[Ernest Gallo]], American winemaker (b. [[1909]])
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| − | * [[March 8]] - [[John Inman]], English actor (b. [[1935]])
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| − | * [[March 9]] - [[Brad Delp]], American singer ([[Boston (band)|Boston]]) (b. [[1951]])
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| − | * [[March 10]] - [[Richard Jeni]], American comedian (b. [[1957]])
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| − | * [[March 10]] - [[Ernie Ladd]], American football player and professional wrestler (b. [[1938]])
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| − | * [[March 10]] - [[Angela Webber]], Australian author, TV writer, producer and comedian (b. [[1954]])
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| − | * [[March 11]] - [[Betty Hutton]], American actress (b. [[1921]])
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| − | [[Image:Betty Hutton HD-SN-99-02415.JPEG|120px|thumb|[[Betty Hutton]]]]
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| − | * [[March 12]] - [[Antonio Ortiz Mena]], Mexican politician and economist (b. [[1907]])
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| − | * [[March 13]] - [[Arnold Skaaland]], American wrestler (b. [[1925]])
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| − | * [[March 14]] - [[Lucie Aubrac]], French World War II Resistance fighter (b. [[1912]])
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| − | * [[March 14]] - [[Gareth Hunt]], English actor (b. [[1943]])
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| − | * [[March 15]] - [[Bowie Kuhn]], [[Commissioner of Baseball|Major League Baseball Commissioner]] (b. [[1926]])
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| − | * [[March 16]] - [[Manjural Islam Rana|Manjural Islam]], Bangladeshi cricketer (b. [[1984]])
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| − | * [[March 16]] - [[Sir Arthur Marshall]], British aviation engineer (b. [[1903]])
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| − | * [[March 17]] - [[Jim Cronin]], British businessman (b. [[1952]])
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| − | * [[March 17]] - [[Roger Bennett (Southern Gospel performer)|Roger Bennett]], American Southern Gospel Vocalist and Pianist
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| − | * [[March 18]] - [[Bob Woolmer]], English cricketer and coach (b. [[1948]])
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| − | * [[March 19]] - [[Calvert DeForest]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[March 19]] - [[Luther Ingram]], American singer (b. [[1937]])
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| − | * [[March 20]] - [[Taha Yassin Ramadan]], Vice President of Iraq (b. [[1938]])
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| − | *[[March 23]] - [[Eric Medlen]], American race car driver (b. [[1973]])
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| − | * [[March 25]] - [[Andranik Margaryan]], 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (b. [[1951]])
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| − | ===April===
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| − | [[Image:Kittycarlisle.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Kitty Carlisle Hart]]]]
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| − | [[Image:Boris Yeltsin 1993.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Boris Yeltsin]]]]
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| − | [[Image:Mstislav Rostropovich 1978.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Mstislav Rostropovich]]]]
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| − | * [[April 1]] - [[Laurie Baker]], English architect (b. [[1917]])
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| − | * [[April 1]] - [[Driss Chraibi]], Moroccan writer (b. [[1926]])
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| − | * [[April 1]] - [[Hans Filbinger]], German jurist and politician (b. [[1913]])
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| − | * [[April 2]] - [[Henry Lee Giclas]], American astronomer (b. [[1910]])
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| − | * [[April 3]] - [[Eddie Robinson (football coach)|Eddie Robinson]], American football coach (b. [[1919]])
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| − | * [[April 4]] - [[Bob Clark]], American film director (b. [[1939]])
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| − | * [[April 5]] - [[Thomas Stoltz Harvey]] Pathologist who conducted Albert Einstein's autopsy (b. [[1912]])
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| − | * [[April 5]] - [[Leela Majumdar]], Bengali children's author (b. [[1908]])
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| − | * [[April 5]] - [[Darryl Stingley]], American football player (b. [[1951]])
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| − | * [[April 5]] - [[Poornachandra Tejaswi]], Indian writer and novelist (b. [[1938]])
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| − | * [[April 6]] - [[Luigi Comencini]], Italian film director (b. [[1916]])
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| − | * [[April 7]] - [[Johnny Hart]], American cartoonist (b. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[April 7]] - [[Barry Nelson]], American actor (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[April 7]] - [[Carey W. Barber]], English Jehovah's Witnesses leader (b. [[1905]])
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| − | * [[April 9]] - [[AJ Carothers]], American writer (b. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[April 10]] - [[Kevin Crease]] Australian news presenter and entertainer (b. [[1936]])
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| − | * [[April 11]] - [[Roscoe Lee Browne]], American actor (b. [[1925]])
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| − | * [[April 11]] - [[Kurt Vonnegut]], American novelist and playwright (b. [[1922]])
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| − | * [[April 13]] - [[Don Selwyn]], Māori actor and film director (b. circa [[1936]])
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| − | * [[April 14]] - [[June Callwood]], Canadian journalist (b. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[April 14]] - [[Don Ho]], American musician (b. [[1930]])
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| − | * [[April 15]] - [[Brant Parker]], American cartoonist (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[April 16]] - [[Frank Bateson]], New Zealand astronomer (b. [[1909]])
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| − | * [[April 17]] - [[Kitty Carlisle Hart]], American singer, actress & talk show panelist (b. [[1910]])
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| − | * [[April 17]] - [[Iccho Itoh]], Mayor of Nagasaki, Japan (assassinated) (b. [[1945]])
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| − | * [[April 20]] - [[Michael Fu Tieshan]], Chinese bishop (b. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[April 22]] - [[Juanita Millender-McDonald]], American politician (b. [[1938]])
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| − | * [[April 23]] - [[David Halberstam]], American author and journalist (b. [[1934]])
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| − | * [[April 23]] - [[Boris Yeltsin]], first [[President of the Russian Federation]] (b. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[April 25]] - [[Alan Ball, Jr.|Alan Ball]], English footballer (b. [[1945]])
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| − | * [[April 25]] - [[Arthur Milton]], English cricketer and footballer (b. [[1928]])
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| − | * [[April 25]] - [[Bobby Pickett]], American singer (b. [[1938]])
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| − | * [[April 26]] - [[Jack Valenti]], American film executive, creator of [[MPAA film rating system]] (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[April 26]] - [[Conchita Montenegro]], Spanish model and actress (b. [[1912]])
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| − | * [[April 27]] - [[Mstislav Rostropovich]], Russian cellist and conductor (b. [[1927]])
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| − | * [[April 28]] - [[Dabbs Greer]], American actor ([[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House on the Prairie]]) (b. [[1917]])
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| − | * [[April 28]] - [[Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker]], German physicist and philosopher (b. [[1912]])
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| − | * [[April 29]] - [[Ivica Račan]], 7th Prime Minister of Croatia (b. [[1944]])
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| − | * [[April 29]] - [[Josh Hancock]], American baseball player (b. [[1978]])
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| − | * [[April 29]] - [[Dick Motz]], New Zealand cricket player (b. [[1940]])
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| − | * [[April 30]] - [[Grégory Lemarchal]], French singer (b. [[1983]])
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| − | * [[April 30]] - [[Kevin Mitchell (football player)|Kevin Mitchell]], American football player (b. [[1971]])
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| − | * [[April 30]] - [[Tom Poston]], American actor (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[April 30]] - [[Gordon Scott]], American actor (b. [[1926]])
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| − | ===May===
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| − | [[Image:Wallyshirra.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Wally Schirra]]]]
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| − | [[Image:Jerry Falwell portrait.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Jerry Falwell]]]]
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| − | * [[May 2]] - [[Juan Valdivieso]], Peruvian footballer (b. [[1910]])
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| − | * [[May 2]] - [[Brad McGann]], New Zealand film director and screenwriter (b. [[1964]])
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| − | * [[May 3]] - [[Wally Schirra]], American astronaut (b. [[1923]])
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| − | * [[May 5]] - [[Theodore Harold Maiman|Theodore Maiman]], American physicist (b. [[1927]])
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| − | * [[May 5]] - [[Gusti Wolf]], Austrian actress (b. [[1912]])
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| − | * [[May 6]] - [[Lesley Blanch]], English writer and fashion editor (b. [[1904]])
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| − | * [[May 7]] - [[Emma Lehmer]], Russian-born mathematician (b. [[1906]])
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| − | * [[May 11]] - [[Bernard Gordon]], American screenwriter (b. [[1918]])
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| − | * [[May 11]] - [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]], Samoan head of state (b. [[1913]])
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| − | * [[May 12]] - [[Mullah Dadullah Akhund]], Afghani Taliban military leader
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| − | * [[May 14]] - [[Colin St John Wilson]], English architect (b. [[1922]])
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| − | * [[May 15]] - [[Jerry Falwell]], American evangelist (b. [[1933]])
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| − | * [[May 15]] - [[Yolanda King]], American actress and activist, daughter of [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] (b. [[1955]])
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| − | * [[May 17]] - [[Lloyd Alexander]], American author (b. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[May 18]] - [[Pierre-Gilles de Gennes]], French physicist and [[Nobel Prize for Physics]] laureate (b. [[1932]])
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| − | * [[May 18]] - [[Yoyoy Villame]], Filipino singer "King of Philippine Novelty Songs." (b. [[1938]])
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| − | * [[May 19]] - [[Dean Eyre]], New Zealand politician (b. [[1914]])
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| − | * [[May 20]] - [[Stanley Miller]], American chemist and biologist (b. [[1930]])
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| − | * [[May 25]] - [[Charles Nelson Reilly]], American actor (b. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[May 27]] - [[Izumi Sakai]], Japanese singer ([[Zard]]) (b. [[1967]])
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| − | * [[May 27]] - [[Percy Sonn]], South African lawyer and cricket executive (b. [[1949]])
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| − | * [[May 27]] - [[Ed Yost]], American inventor of the modern hot air balloon (b. [[1919]])
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| − | * [[May 28]] - [[Marquise Hill]], American football player (b. [[1982]])
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| − | ===June===
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| − | [[Image:Thomascraigportrait.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Craig L. Thomas]]]]
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| − | * [[June 2]] - [[Huang Ju]], Chinese politician (b. [[1938]])
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| − | * [[June 4]] - [[Bill France, Jr.]], American President/CEO of [[NASCAR]] (b. [[1933]])
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| − | * [[June 4]] - [[Craig L. Thomas]], American politician (b. [[1933]])
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| − | * [[June 5]] - [[Povel Ramel]], Swedish entertainer (b. [[1922]])
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| − | * [[June 8]] - [[Aden Abdullah Osman Daar]], first [[List of Presidents of Somalia|President of Somalia]] (b. [[1908]])
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| − | * [[June 10]] - [[Augie Auer]], meteorologist (b. [[1940]])
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| − | * [[June 11]] - [[Imre Friedmann]], American scientist (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[June 11]] - [[Mala Powers]], American film actress (b. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[June 12]] - [[Don Herbert]], American television personality, ''Mr. Wizard'' (b. [[1917]])
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| − | * [[June 13]] - [[David Hatch]], BBC Radio producer and comedian (b. [[1939]])
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| − | * [[June 14]] - [[Ruth Bell Graham]], Wife of Billy Graham (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[June 14]] - [[Jacques Simonet]], Belgian politician (b. [[1963]])
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| − | * [[June 14]] - [[Kurt Waldheim]], Austrian politician and diplomat (b. [[1918]])
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| − | * [[June 15]] - [[Sherri Martel]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1958]])
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| − | * [[June 17]] - [[Gianfranco Ferrè]], Italian designer (b. [[1944]])
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| − | * [[June 18]] - [[Bernard Manning]], English comedian (b. [[1930]])
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| − | * [[June 18]] - [[Vilma Espín]], Wife of Raúl Castro (b. [[1930]])
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| − | * [[June 18]] - [[Georges Thurston]], Canadian singer (b. [[1951]])
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| − | * [[June 19]] - [[El Fary]], Spanish singer (b. [[1937]])
| |
| − | * [[June 19]] - [[Terry Hoeppner]], American football coach (b. [[1947]])
| |
| − | * [[June 19]] - [[Antonio Aguilar]], Mexican singer and actor (b. [[1919]])
| |
| − | * [[June 20]] - [[Trevor Henry]], New Zealand Justice (b. [[1902]])
| |
| − | * [[June 21]] - [[Bob Evans (restaurateur)|Bob Evans]], American restaurateur (b. [[1918]])
| |
| − | * [[June 22]] - [[Nancy Benoit]], American professional wrestling manager (b. [[1964]])
| |
| − | * [[June 22]] - [[Rod Beck]], American baseball player (b. [[1968]])
| |
| − | * [[June 22]] - [[Erik Parlevliet]], Dutch field hockey player b. ([[1964]])
| |
| − | * [[June 24]] - [[Derek Dougan]], Northern Irish footballer (b. [[1938]])
| |
| − | * [[June 24]] - [[Chris Benoit]], Canadian professional wrestler (double-murder suicide) (b. [[1967]])
| |
| − | * [[June 24]] - [[Jack Flynt]], American politician (b. [[1914]])
| |
| − | * [[June 25]] - [[J. Fred Duckett]], American sports announcer and teacher (b. [[1933]])
| |
| − | * [[June 25]] - [[Mahasti|Khadijeh Dadehbala (Mahasti)]], Iranian popular singer (b. [[1946]])
| |
| − | * [[June 26]] - [[Jupp Derwall]], German footballer and coach (b. [[1927]])
| |
| − | * [[June 26]] - [[Joey Sadler]], All Black rugby player (b. [[1914]])
| |
| − | * [[June 27]] - [[Liz Claiborne (fashion designer)|Liz Claiborne]], Belgian-American fashion designer (b. [[1929]])
| |
| − | * [[June 27]] - [[William Hutt (actor)|William Hutt]], Canadian stage and film actor (b. [[1920]])
| |
| − | * [[June 28]] - [[Kiichi Miyazawa]], 78th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1919]])
| |
| − | * [[June 29]] - [[Joel Siegel]], American film critic (b. [[1943]])
| |
| − | * [[June 29]] - [[George McCorkle]], Founder of The Marshall Tucker Band (b. [[1947]])
| |
| − | * [[June 30]] - [[Jan Herman Linge]], Norwegian engineer and boat designer (b. [[1922]])
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| − | | |
| − | ===July===
| |
| − | [[Image:Beverly Sills by Van Vechten.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Beverly Sills]]]]
| |
| − | * [[July 1]] - [[Gottfried von Bismarck]], German aristocrat and socialite (b. [[1962]])
| |
| − | * [[July 2]] - [[Brahim Déby]], son of Chadian [[Heads of state of Chad|president]] [[Idriss Déby]] (b. [[1980]])
| |
| − | * [[July 2]] - [[Vojislav Nikčević]], Montenegrin professor and linguist (b. [[1935]])
| |
| − | * [[July 2]] - [[Beverly Sills]], American soprano (b. [[1929]])
| |
| − | * [[July 2]] - [[Dilip Sardesai]], Indian cricketer (b. [[1940]])
| |
| − | * [[July 2]] - [[Jimmy Walker (basketball)|Jimmy Walker]], American basketball player (b. [[1944]])
| |
| − | * [[July 2]] - [[Hy Zaret]], American lyricist and composer (b. [[1907]])
| |
| − | * [[July 3]] - [[Claude Pompidou]], wife of President of France [[Georges Pompidou]] (b. [[1912]])
| |
| − | * [[July 3]] - [[Boots Randolph]], American saxophone player (b. [[1927]])
| |
| − | * [[July 4]] - [[Barış Akarsu]], Turkish musician (b.[[1979]])
| |
| − | * [[July 4]] - [[José Roberto Espinosa]], Mexican commentator (b.[[1948]])
| |
| − | * [[July 4]] - [[Liane Bahler]], German cyclist (b. [[1982]])
| |
| − | * [[July 4]] - [[Johnny Frigo]], American jazz violinist and bassist (b.[[1916]])
| |
| − | * [[July 4]] - [[Bill Pinkney]], American singer (b. [[1925]])
| |
| − | * [[July 4]] - [[Osvaldo Romo]], Chilean agent of the [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet's]] Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (b. [[1938]])
| |
| − | * [[July 5]] - [[George Melly]], English singer (b. [[1926]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Lady Bird Johnson 1987.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Lady Bird Johnson]]]]
| |
| − | * [[July 5]] - [[Régine Crespin]], French soprano (b. [[1927]])
| |
| − | * [[July 6]] - [[Lois Wyse]], American advertising executive, author, and columnist (b. [[1926]])
| |
| − | * [[July 9]] - [[Charles Lane (actor)|Charles Lane]], American actor (b. [[1905]])
| |
| − | * [[July 10]] - [[Zheng Xiaoyu]], Chinese bureaucrat (b. [[1944]])
| |
| − | * [[July 10]] - [[Abdul Rashid Ghazi]], Pakistani cleric (b. [[1964]])
| |
| − | * [[July 10]] - [[Corbin Harney]], an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe (Western Shoshone) people (b. [[1920]])
| |
| − | * [[July 11]] - [[Lady Bird Johnson]], former [[First Lady of the United States]] (b. [[1912]])
| |
| − | * [[July 11]] - [[Alfonso López Michelsen]], 32nd Colombian President (b. [[1913]])
| |
| − | * [[July 11]] - [[Ed Mirvish]], Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. [[1914]])
| |
| − | * [[July 11]] - [[Shag Crawford]], American umpire in Major League Baseball (b. [[1916]])
| |
| − | * [[July 11]] - [[Jimmy Skinner]], Detroit Red Wings head coach (b. [[1917]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Tammy Faye.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Tammy Faye Messner]]]]
| |
| − | * [[July 11]] - [[Richard Franklin (director)|Richard Franklin]], Australian film director (b. [[1948]])
| |
| − | * [[July 12]] - [[Nigel Dempster]], British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist (b.[[1941]])
| |
| − | * [[July 12]] - [[Pat Fordice]], First Lady of Mississippi from 1992 until 2000 (b. [[1935]])
| |
| − | * [[July 12]] - [[Mitchell Brothers|Jim Mitchell]], pioneer in the pornographic film industry (b. [[1945]])
| |
| − | * [[July 12]] - [[Larry Staverman]], American professional basketball player and coach (b. [[1936]])
| |
| − | * [[July 12]] - [[Stan Zemanek]], Australian radio broadcaster (b. [[1947]])
| |
| − | * [[July 12]] - [[Mr. Butch]], American homeless man living on the streets of Boston, also known as "King of Kenmore Square" (b. [[1951]])
| |
| − | * [[July 14]] - [[John Ferguson, Sr.|John Ferguson]], Canadian professional hockey player, coach and executive (b. [[1938]])
| |
| − | * [[July 19]] - [[A. K. Faezul Huq]], Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. [[1945]])
| |
| − | * [[July 20]] - [[Tammy Faye Messner]], American evangelist (b. [[1942]])
| |
| − | * [[July 22]] - [[Mike Coolbaugh]], American baseball player and coach (b. [[1972]])
| |
| − | * [[July 22]] - [[László Kovács (cinematographer)|László Kovács]], Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. [[1933]])
| |
| − | * [[July 22]] - [[Ulrich Mühe]], German actor (b. [[1953]])
| |
| − | * [[July 22]] - [[Jean Stablinski]], French cyclist of Polish origin (b. [[1932]])
| |
| − | * [[July 22]] - [[Rollie Stiles]], American baseball player (b. [[1906]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Ingmar Bergman Smultronstallet.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Ingmar Bergman]]]]
| |
| − | * [[July 22]] - [[Aleksandr Tatarskiy]], Russian animation film director (b. [[1950]])
| |
| − | * [[July 22]] - [[Jarrod Cunningham]], New Zealand rugby player (b. [[1968]])
| |
| − | * [[July 23]] - [[Benjamin Libet]], American pioneering scientist in the field of human consciousness (b. [[1916]])
| |
| − | * [[July 23]] - [[Mohammed Zahir Shah]], last King of [[Afghanistan]] (b. [[1914]])
| |
| − | * [[July 24]] - [[Albert Ellis]], American psychologist (b. [[1913]])
| |
| − | * [[July 26]] - [[Skip Prosser]], American basketball coach (b. [[1950]])
| |
| − | * [[July 27]] - [[James Oyebola]], British heavyweight boxer (b. [[1961]])
| |
| − | * [[July 29]] - [[Mike Reid (entertainer)|Mike Reid]], British comedian and actor (b. [[1940]])
| |
| − | * [[July 29]] - [[Tom Snyder]], American talk show host (b. [[1936]])
| |
| − | * [[July 30]] - [[Michelangelo Antonioni]], Italian film director (b. [[1912]])
| |
| − | * [[July 30]] - [[Teoctist Arăpaşu]], Ex-Romanian Orthodox Church Patriarch (b. [[1915]])
| |
| − | * [[July 30]] - [[Ingmar Bergman]], Swedish film director (b. [[1918]])
| |
| − | * [[July 30]] - [[Bill Walsh (football coach)|Bill Walsh]], American football coach (b. [[1931]])
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| − | | |
| − | ===August===
| |
| − | * [[August 1]] - [[Tommy Makem]], Irish folk musician (b. [[1932]])
| |
| − | * [[August 1]] - [[Ryan Cox]], South African professional road racing cyclist (b. [[1979]])
| |
| − | * [[August 1]] - [[Veikko Karvonen]], Finnish athlete (b. [[1926]])
| |
| − | * [[August 2]] - [[Holden Roberto]], Angolan nationalist leader (b. [[1923]])
| |
| − | * [[August 2]] - [[Chauncey Bailey]], American columnist and newspaper editor (b. [[1949]])
| |
| − | * [[August 3]] - [[James T. Callahan]], American actor (b. [[1930]])
| |
| − | * [[August 3]] - [[John Gardner (thriller writer)|John Gardner]], British author (b. [[1926]])
| |
| − | * [[August 4]] - [[Lee Hazlewood]], American country singer, songwriter and producer (b. [[1929]])
| |
| − | * [[August 4]] - [[Frank Mancuso]], American baseball player and politician (b. [[1918]])
| |
| − | * [[August 5]] - [[Oliver Hill]], American lawyer (b. [[1907]])
| |
| − | * [[August 5]] - [[Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger]], French Cardinal Archbishop of Paris (b. [[1926]])
| |
| − | * [[August 6]] - [[Heinz Barth]], German war criminal (b. [[1920]])
| |
| − | * [[August 7]] - [[Hal Fishman]], Los Angeles–based local news anchor (b. [[1931]])
| |
| − | * [[August 7]] - [[Ernesto Alonso]], Mexican soap opera actor, director and producer, best known as ''Señor Telenovela'' (b. [[1917]])
| |
| − | * [[August 7]] - [[Angus Tait]], New Zealand electronics innovator and businessman (b. [[1919]])
| |
| − | * [[August 8]] - [[Joybubbles]], American Phone [[Phreak]] (b. [[1949]])
| |
| − | * [[August 8]] - [[Ma Lik]], Chinese politician (b. [[1952]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Max roach.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Max Roach]]]]
| |
| − | * [[August 8]] - [[Melville Shavelson]], American film director, producer, and screenwriter (b. [[1917]])
| |
| − | * [[August 9]] - [[Joe O'Donnell]], American documentary photographer and photojournalist (b. [[1922]])
| |
| − | * [[August 10]] - [[Tony Wilson]], English broadcaster, nightclub manager, and record label owner (b.[[1950]])
| |
| − | * [[August 10]] - [[James Faust]], an [[Apostle (Mormonism)|Apostle]] in the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. [[1920]])
| |
| − | * [[August 12]] - [[Merv Griffin]], American TV personality (b. [[1925]])
| |
| − | * [[August 13]] - [[Brooke Astor]], American socialite and philanthropist (b. [[1902]])
| |
| − | * [[August 13]] - [[Phil Rizzuto]], American baseball player and announcer (b. [[1917]])
| |
| − | * [[August 13]] - [[Brian Adams (wrestler)|Brian Adams]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1964]])
| |
| − | * [[August 14]] - [[Tikhon Khrennikov]], Russian composer (b. [[1913]])
| |
| − | * [[August 15]] - [[Richard Bradshaw]], British opera conductor (b. [[1944]])
| |
| − | * [[August 15]] - [[John Gofman]], American [[Manhattan Project]] scientist and advocate (b. [[1918]])
| |
| − | * [[August 15]] - [[Sam Pollock]], Canadian sports executive (b. [[1925]])
| |
| − | * [[August 16]] - [[Max Roach]], American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. [[1924]])
| |
| − | * [[August 17]] - [[Eddie Griffin (basketball)|Eddie Griffin]], American basketball player (b. [[1982]])
| |
| − | * [[August 18]] - [[Michael Deaver]], American political adviser (b. [[1938]])
| |
| − | * [[August 20]] - [[Leona Helmsley]], American hotel operator and real estate investor (b. [[1920]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Antonio Puerta2.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Antonio Puerta]]]]
| |
| − | * [[August 21]] - [[Elizabeth P. Hoisington]], American brigadier general (b. [[1918]])
| |
| − | * [[August 21]] - [[Qurratulain Hyder]], Indian novelist (b. [[1926]])
| |
| − | * [[August 24]] - [[Abdul Rahman Arif]], 4th [[President of Iraq]] (b. [[1916]])
| |
| − | * [[August 25]] - [[Raymond Barre]], French politician and economist (b. [[1924]])
| |
| − | * [[August 25]] - [[Ray Jones]], English footballer (b. [[1988]])
| |
| − | * [[August 26]] - [[Gaston Thorn]], Luxembourger politician (b. [[1928]])
| |
| − | * [[August 28]] - [[Antonio Puerta]], Spanish footballer (b. [[1984]])
| |
| − | * [[August 28]] - [[Francisco Umbral]], Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (b. [[1935]])
| |
| − | * [[August 28]] - [[Miyoshi Umeki]], Japanese actress (b. [[1929]])
| |
| − | * [[August 28]] - [[Nikola Nobilo]], New Zealand winemaker (b. [[1913]])
| |
| − | * [[August 29]] - [[Richard Jewell]], American falsely accused of bombing the [[Centennial Olympic Park bombing|Centennial Olympic Park]] (b. [[1962]])
| |
| − | * [[August 29]] - [[Pierre Messmer]], French politician (b. [[1916]])
| |
| − | * [[August 29]] - [[Chaswe Nsofwa]], Zambian footballer (b. [[1978]])
| |
| − | * [[August 29]] - [[James Muir Cameron Fletcher]], New Zealand industrialist (b. [[1914]])
| |
| − | * [[August 30]] - [[Michael Jackson (writer)|Michael Jackson]], English writer (b. [[1942]])
| |
| − | * [[August 30]] - [[Charles Vanik]], American politician (b. [[1918]])
| |
| − | * [[August 31]] - [[Gay Brewer]], American golfer (b. [[1932]])
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| − | | |
| − | ===September===
| |
| − | * [[September 1]] - [[Tomás Medina Caracas]], Colombian rebel leader (b. [[1965]])
| |
| − | * [[September 1]] - [[Roy McKenzie]], New Zealand philanthropist (b. [[1922]])
| |
| − | * [[September 2]] - [[Max McNab]], Canadian hockey player and hockey executive (b. [[1924]])
| |
| − | * [[September 3]] - [[Jane Tomlinson]], British charity fund raiser (b. [[1964]])
| |
| − | * [[September 3]] - [[Syd Jackson (New Zealand)|Syd Jackson]], Māori activist and trade unionist (b. [[1939]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Luciano Pavarotti 15.06.02 cropped.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Luciano Pavarotti]]]]
| |
| − | * [[September 5]] - [[Jennifer Dunn]], American politician (b. [[1941]])
| |
| − | * [[September 5]] - [[Paul Gillmor]], American politician (b. [[1939]])
| |
| − | * [[September 5]] - [[D. James Kennedy]], American evangelist (b. [[1930]])
| |
| − | * [[September 6]] - [[Madeleine L'Engle]], American author (b. [[1918]])
| |
| − | * [[September 6]] - [[Luciano Pavarotti]], Italian tenor (b. [[1935]])
| |
| − | * [[September 7]] - [[Mark Weil]], Uzbek theater director (b. [[1952]])
| |
| − | * [[September 8]] - [[Charlie Parlato]], American musician (b. [[1919]])
| |
| − | * [[September 9]] - [[Helmut Senekowitsch]], Austrian footballer and coach (b. [[1933]])
| |
| − | * [[September 10]] - [[Anita Roddick]], English entrepreneur (b. [[1942]])
| |
| − | * [[September 10]] - [[Jane Wyman]], American actress, former wife of [[Ronald Reagan]] (b. [[1917]])
| |
| − | * [[September 11]] - [[Ian Porterfield]], Scottish footballer (b. [[1946]])
| |
| − | * [[September 11]] - [[Joe Zawinul]], Austrian musician (b. [[1932]])
| |
| − | * [[September 13]] - [[Whakahuihui Vercoe]], New Zealand clergyman (b. [[1928]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Jane Wyman in Stage Fright trailer.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Jane Wyman]]]]
| |
| − | * [[September 14]] - [[Benny Vansteelant]], Belgian duathlete (b. [[1976]])
| |
| − | * [[September 15]] - [[Colin McRae]], Scottish world rally champion (b. [[1968]])
| |
| − | * [[September 15]] - [[Aldemaro Romero]], Venezuelan musician (b. [[1928]])
| |
| − | * [[September 15]] - [[Brett Somers]], American actress (b. [[1924]])
| |
| − | * [[September 16]] - [[Robert Jordan]], American author (b. [[1948]])
| |
| − | * [[September 19]] - [[Antoine Ghanem]], Lebanese politician (b. [[1943]])
| |
| − | * [[September 20]] - [[Mahlon Clark]], American musician (b. [[1923]])
| |
| − | * [[September 21]] - [[Hallgeir Brenden]], Norwegian athlete (b. [[1929]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Marcel Marceau.gif|120px|thumb|[[Marcel Marceau]]]]
| |
| − | * [[September 21]] - [[Alice Ghostley]], American actress (b. [[1926]])
| |
| − | * [[September 21]] - [[Rex Humbard]], American evangelist (b. [[1919]])
| |
| − | * [[September 21]] - [[Petar Stambolić]], Serbian politician (b. [[1912]])
| |
| − | * [[September 22]] - [[Marcel Marceau]], French mime artist (b. [[1923]])
| |
| − | * [[September 23]] - [[Ken Danby]], Canadian artist (b. [[1940]])
| |
| − | * [[September 26]] - [[Bill Wirtz]], American businessman (b. [[1929]])
| |
| − | * [[September 27]] - [[Bill Perry (footballer)|Bill Perry]], South African footballer, scored winning goal in the 1953 FA Cup Final (b. [[1930]])
| |
| − | * [[September 27]] - [[Avraham Shapira]], Israeli [[Chief Rabbi|chief rabbi]] (b. [[1914]])
| |
| − | * [[September 27]] - [[Kenji Nagai]], Japanese journalist (b. [[1957]])
| |
| − | * [[September 28]] - [[Wally Parks]], American founder of the [[National Hot Rod Association]] (b. [[1913]])
| |
| − | * [[September 29]] - [[Lois Maxwell]], Canadian actress (b. [[1927]])
| |
| − | * [[September 30]] - [[Milan Jelić]], Bosnian-Serb politician (b. [[1956]])
| |
| − | | |
| − | ===October===
| |
| − | * [[October 1]] - [[Chris Mainwaring]], Australian rules football player (b. [[1966]])
| |
| − | * [[October 1]] - [[Al Oerter]], American athlete (b. [[1936]])
| |
| − | * [[October 1]] - [[Ned Sherrin]], English broadcaster and theatre director (b. [[1931]])
| |
| − | * [[October 2]] - [[Dan Keating]], Irish [[Irish republicanism|republican]] (b. [[1902]])
| |
| − | * [[October 3]] - [[Tony Ryan]], Irish businessman (b. [[1936]])
| |
| − | * [[October 4]] - [[Antonie Iorgovan]], Romanian jurist, professor, and politician (b. [[1948]])
| |
| − | * [[October 5]] - [[Justin Tuveri]], Italian veteran of [[World War I]] (b. [[1898]])
| |
| − | * [[October 6]] - [[Jo Ann Davis]], American politician (b. [[1950]])
| |
| − | * [[October 7]] - [[Norifumi Abe]], Japanese motorcycle road racer (b. [[1975]])
| |
| − | * [[October 7]] - [[Luciana Frassati Gawronska]], [[Italy|Italian author]] (b. [[1902]]
| |
| − | * [[October 8]] - [[Constantine Andreou]], Greek painter and sculptor (b. [[1917]])
| |
| − | * [[October 11]] - [[Sri Chinmoy]], Indian philosopher (b. [[1931]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember trailer.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Deborah Kerr]]]]
| |
| − | * [[October 12]] - [[Soe Win]], Burmese politician (b. [[1948]])
| |
| − | * [[October 12]] - [[Kisho Kurokawa]], Japanese architect (b. [[1934]])
| |
| − | * [[October 13]] - [[Bob Denard]], French mercenary (b. [[1929]])
| |
| − | * [[October 16]] - [[Deborah Kerr]], Scottish actress (b. [[1921]])
| |
| − | * [[October 16]] - [[Rosalio José Castillo Lara]], Venezuelan [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] (b. [[1922]])
| |
| − | * [[October 16]] - [[Toše Proeski]], Macedonian singer (b. [[1981]])
| |
| − | * [[October 16]] - [[Barbara West]], 2nd to last living survivor of the [[RMS Titanic|Titanic]] sinking (b. [[1911]])
| |
| − | * [[October 17]] - [[Joey Bishop]], American entertainer (b. [[1918]])
| |
| − | * [[October 17]] - [[Teresa Brewer]], American singer (b. [[1931]])
| |
| − | * [[October 18]] - [[Alan Coren]], English columnist (b. [[1939]])
| |
| − | * [[October 18]] - [[William J. Crowe]], American military commander and ambassador (b. [[1925]])
| |
| − | * [[October 18]] - [[Lucky Dube]], South African musician (b. [[1964]])
| |
| − | * [[October 19]] - [[Randall Forsberg]], American nuclear freeze advocate (b. [[1943]])
| |
| − | * [[October 19]] - [[Jan Wolkers]], Dutch author, sculptor and painter (b. [[1925]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Porter wagoner 1999.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Porter Wagoner]]]]
| |
| − | * [[October 20]] - [[Max McGee]], American football player (b. [[1932]])
| |
| − | * [[October 22]] - [[Ève Curie]], French author, daughter of Pierre and [[Marie Curie]] (b. [[1904]])
| |
| − | * [[October 23]] - [[Lim Goh Tong]], Malaysian Chinese businessman (b. [[1918]])
| |
| − | * [[October 24]] - [[Petr Eben]], Czech composer (b. [[1929]])
| |
| − | * [[October 24]] - [[Ian Middleton]], New Zealand novelist (b. [[1928]])
| |
| − | * [[October 26]] - [[Nicolae Dobrin]], Romanian footballer (b. [[1947]])
| |
| − | * [[October 26]] - [[Friedman Paul Erhardt]], German American pioneering television chef (b. [[1943]])
| |
| − | * [[October 26]] - [[Arthur Kornberg]], American biochemist (b. [[1918]])
| |
| − | * [[October 26]] - [[Khun Sa]], Burmese warlord (b. [[1934]])
| |
| − | * [[October 28]] - [[Porter Wagoner]], American country singer (b. [[1927]])
| |
| − | * [[October 30]] - [[Robert Goulet]], American entertainer (b. [[1933]])
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| − | | |
| − | ===November===
| |
| − | * [[November 1]] - [[Paul Tibbets]], American general, pilot of the [[Enola Gay]] (b. [[1915]])
| |
| − | * [[November 2]] - [[Charmaine Dragun]], Australian news anchor (b. [[1978]])
| |
| − | * [[November 2]] - [[S. P. Thamilselvan]], [[Sri Lanka|Sri Lankan]] [[Tamil people|Tamil]] political leader (b. [[1967]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Normanmailer.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Norman Mailer]]]]
| |
| − | * [[November 2]] - [[Igor Moiseyev]], Russian choreographer (b. [[1906]])
| |
| − | * [[November 2]] - [[Lillian Ellison]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1923]])
| |
| − | * [[November 3]] - [[Martin Meehan (Irish republican)|Martin Meehan]], Irish republican (b. [[1945]])
| |
| − | * [[November 3]] - [[Ryan Shay]], American runner (b. [[1979]])
| |
| − | * [[November 5]] - [[Nils Liedholm]], Swedish footballer and coach (b. [[1922]])
| |
| − | * [[November 6]] - [[Enzo Biagi]], Italian journalist (b. [[1920]])
| |
| − | * [[November 7]] - [[Hilda Braid]], English actress (b. [[1929]])
| |
| − | * [[November 8]] - [[Chad Varah]], English Anglican priest, founder of the [[Samaritans (charity)| Samaritans ]] (b. [[1911]])
| |
| − | * [[November 8]] - [[Dulce Saguisag]], Filipino politician (b. [[1943]])
| |
| − | * [[November 9]] - [[Luis Herrera Campins]], 56th [[President of Venezuela]] (b. [[1925]])
| |
| − | * [[November 10]] - [[Laraine Day]], American actress (b. [[1920]])
| |
| − | * [[November 10]] - [[Augustus F. Hawkins]], American politician and civil rights lawmaker (b. [[1907]])
| |
| − | * [[November 10]] - [[Norman Mailer]], American writer (b. [[1923]])
| |
| − | [[Image:Quietriot.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Kevin DuBrow]]]]
| |
| − | * [[November 12]] - [[Ira Levin]], American novelist (b. [[1929]])
| |
| − | * [[November 13]] - [[John Doherty (footballer)|John Doherty]], English footballer (b. [[1935]])
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| − | * [[November 13]] - [[Kazuhisa Inao]], Japanese baseball player (b. [[1937]])
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| − | * [[November 13]] - [[Wahab Akbar]], Filipino politician (b. [[1960]])
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| − | * [[November 15]] - [[Joe Nuxhall]], American baseball player and announcer (b. [[1928]])
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| − | * [[November 16]] - [[Trond Kirkvaag]], Norwegian comedian and author (b. [[1946]])
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| − | * [[November 19]] - [[Dick Wilson]], American actor (b. [[1916]])
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| − | [[Image:At Home With Evel Knievel.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Evel Knievel]]]]
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| − | * [[November 20]] - [[Ian Smith]], [[Prime Minister of Rhodesia]] (b. [[1919]])
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| − | * [[November 21]] - [[Fernando Fernán Gómez]], Spanish actor, director, and playwright (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[November 21]] - [[Tom Johnson (ice hockey)|Tom Johnson]], Canadian sports executive and hockey player (b. [[1928]])
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| − | * [[November 22]] - [[Verity Lambert]], English producer (b. [[1935]])
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| − | * [[November 23]] - [[Joe Kennedy (baseball player)|Joe Kennedy]], American baseball player (b. [[1979]])
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| − | * [[November 23]] - [[Vladimir Kryuchkov]], Russian Soviet-era bureaucrat (b. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[November 24]] - [[Casey Calvert]], American musician ([[Hawthorne Heights]]) (b. [[1981]])
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| − | * [[November 25]] - [[Kevin DuBrow]], American musician ([[Quiet Riot]]) (b. [[1955]])
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| − | * [[November 27]] - [[Sean Taylor]], American football player (b. [[1983]])
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| − | * [[November 27]] - [[Robert Cade]], American physician and inventor of the beverage [[Gatorade]] (b. [[1927]])
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| − | * [[November 28]] - [[Elly Beinhorn]], German pilot (b. [[1907]])
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| − | * [[November 29]] - [[Henry Hyde]], American politician (b. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[November 29]] - [[Roger Bonham Smith]], American businessman (b. [[1925]])
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| − | * [[November 30]] - [[Evel Knievel]], American motorcycle daredevil (b. [[1938]])
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| − | ===December===
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| − | * [[December 1]] - [[Ken McGregor]], Australian tennis player (b. [[1929]])
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| − | * [[December 2]] - [[Robert O. Anderson]], American businessman (b. [[1917]])
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| − | * [[December 2]] - [[Elizabeth Hardwick]], American literary critic and novelist (b. [[1916]])
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| − | * [[December 2]] - [[Les Shannon]], English footballer and manager (b. [[1926]])
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| − | * [[December 2]] - [[Thomas Torrance]], Scottish Protestant theologian (b. [[1913]])
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| − | * [[December 4]] - [[Pimp C]], American rapper (b. [[1973]])
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| − | [[Image:Iketurner1997.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Ike Turner]]]]
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| − | * [[December 4]] - [[Norval Morrisseau]], Canadian artist (b. [[1932]])
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| − | * [[December 4]] - [[Chip Reese]], American professional gambler (b. [[1951]])
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| − | * [[December 5]] - [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], German composer (b. [[1928]])
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| − | * [[December 5]] - [[Andrew Imbrie]], American composer (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[December 6]] - [[Katy French]], Irish model (b. [[1983]])
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| − | * [[December 9]] - [[Thore Skogman]], Swedish entertainer (b. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[December 9]] - [[Abdullah Qureshi]], Pakistani activist (b. [[1935]])
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| − | * [[December 10]] - [[Ashleigh Aston Moore]], actress (b. [[1981]])
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| − | * [[December 11]] - [[Nicholas Kao Se Tseien]], Chinese Catholic priest (b. [[1897]])
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| − | * [[December 11]] - [[Ottomar Pinto]], Brazilian politician (b. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[December 12]] - [[Ike Turner]], American musician (b. [[1931]])
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| − | * [[December 15]] - [[Julia Carson]], American politician (b. [[1938]])
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| − | * [[December 15]] - [[Ace Vergel]], Filipino actor (b. [[1952]])
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| − | * [[December 16]] - [[Dan Fogelberg]], American singer and songwriter (b. [[1951]])
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| − | * [[December 18]] - [[Bill Strauss]], American satirist, author and historian (b. [[1947]])
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| − | * [[December 20]] - [[Arabella Churchill (charity founder)|Arabella Spencer-Churchill]], English philanthropist (b. [[1949]])
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| − | * [[December 22]] - [[Archbishop Chrysostomos I|Chrysostomos I]], Archbishop of Cyprus (b. [[1927]])
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| − | * [[December 22]] - [[Julien Gracq]], French writer (b. [[1910]])
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| − | * [[December 22]] - [[Andrew Glyn]], English economist (b. [[1943]])
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| − | [[Image:Benazir Bhutto.jpg|120px|thumb|[[Benazir Bhutto]]]]
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| − | * [[December 23]] - [[Michael Kidd]], American choreographer (b. [[1915]])
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| − | * [[December 23]] - [[Oscar Peterson]], Canadian jazz pianist and composer (b. [[1925]])
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| − | * [[December 24]] - [[Akbar Radi]], Iranian dramatist and playwright (b. [[1939]])
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| − | * [[December 26]] - [[Joe Dolan]], Irish singer (b. [[1939]])
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| − | * [[December 26]] - [[Stu Nahan]], American sportscaster (b. [[1926]])
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| − | * [[December 27]] - [[Benazir Bhutto]], Pakistani politician (b. [[1953]])
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| − | * [[December 27]] - [[Jaan Kross]], Estonian writer (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[December 27]] - [[Jerzy Kawalerowicz]], Polish film director (b. [[1922]])
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| − | * [[December 27]] - [[Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza]], a claimant to the Brazilian throne (b. [[1913]])
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| − | * [[December 28]] - [[Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami]], Iranian basketball player (b. [[1982]])
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| − | * [[December 29]] - [[Kevin Greening]], Former BBC Radio 1 DJ (b. [[1962]])
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| − | * [[December 29]] - [[Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar]], Yemeni political and tribal leader (b. [[1933]])
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| − | * [[December 29]] - [[Phil O'Donnell (footballer)|Phil O'Donnell]], Scottish footballer (b. [[1972]])
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| − | * [[December 31]] - [[Ettore Sottsass]], Italian architect (b. [[1917]])
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| − | == Nobel Prizes ==
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Gerhard Ertl]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] - [[Leonid Hurwicz]], [[Eric Maskin]], [[Roger Myerson]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Doris Lessing]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize for Peace|Peace]] - [[Al Gore|Albert Gore, Jr]], and the [[United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Albert Fert]], [[Peter Grünberg]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Mario Capecchi]], [[Oliver Smithies]], Sir [[Martin Evans]]
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| − | ==Holidays==
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[New Year's Day]].
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| − | * [[January 26]] - [[Australia Day]]. [[India]] Republic Day.
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| − | * [[February 6]] - [[Waitangi Day]] in [[New Zealand]].
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| − | * [[February 12]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Chile]].
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| − | * [[February 19]] - [[Presidents' Day]] in the [[United States]].
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| − | * [[February 20]] - [[Mardi Gras Day]].
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| − | * [[February 21]] - Western [[Christianity]]: [[Ash Wednesday]] and start of [[Lent]].
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| − | * [[March 1]] - [[Saint David's Day]]
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| − | * [[March 17]] - [[Saint Patrick's Day]].
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| − | * [[March 19]] - Feast of [[Saint Joseph]] in Christianity. In Judaism, start of the month of [[Nisan]].
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| − | * [[March 21]] - [[Norouz]], [[Iran]]ian and [[Bahá'í Faith|Bahá'í]] New Year.
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| − | * [[April 2]] - In [[Judaism]], 14/15 Nisan. [[Passover]] [[Passover Seder|Seder]].
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| − | * [[April 6]] - [[Good Friday]] in the Western Christian and Eastern Orthodox calendars.
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| − | * [[April 8]] - [[Easter]] (Western Christianity and Eastern Orthodoxy).
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| − | * [[April 10]] - End of [[Passover]] or Feast of Unleavened Bread.
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| − | * [[April 18]] - Zimbabwe independence from Britain
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| − | * [[April 22]] - [[Earth Day]].
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| − | * [[April 23]] - [[St George's Day|Saint George's Day]].
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| − | * [[April 23]] - [[Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel|Israeli Independence]] Day (Iyar 5) in the [[Hebrew calendar]].
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| − | * [[April 25]] - [[ANZAC Day]] in [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]].
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| − | * [[April 25]] - Liberation of [[Italy]] Day.
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| − | * [[April 27]] - [[Arbor Day]] in the USA.
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| − | * [[April 30]] - [[Koninginnedag]] (''Queen's Day'', in Dutch) - National Holiday in [[The Netherlands]].
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| − | * [[May 1]] - [[Beltane]], a [[cross-quarter day]]. Also [[Labor Day]] in most of the world, but not in the [[USA]] and [[Canada]]. [[May Day]].
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| − | * [[May 5]] - [[Cinco de Mayo]], celebrating the [[Battle of Puebla]], in [[Mexico]] and the USA.
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| − | * [[May 18]] - Somaliland Independence from Somalia.
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| − | * [[May 21]] - [[Victoria Day]] in Canada.
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| − | * [[May 23]] - [[Shavuot]] or [[Pentecost]] in the Jewish religion.
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| − | * [[May 28]] - [[Memorial Day]] in the [[USA]].
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| − | * [[June 1]] - Foundation Day [[Western Australia]], [[Australia]]
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| − | * [[June 2]] - [[Republic Day]] in [[Italy]]
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| − | * [[June 7]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Norway]]
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| − | * [[June 12]] - Independence Day in the [[Philippines]].
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| − | * [[June 14]] - [[Flag Day]] in the [[USA]].
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| − | * [[June 17]] - [[Iceland]]'s [[Independence Day]].
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| − | * [[June 26]] - Somaliland Independence From UK.
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| − | * [[July 1]] - [[Canada Day]].
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| − | * [[July 4]] - [[Independence Day (United States)|Independence Day]] in the [[USA]].
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| − | * [[July 5]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Venezuela]].
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| − | * [[July 9]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Argentina]].
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| − | * [[July 14]] - [[Bastille Day]].
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| − | * [[July 20]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Colombia]].
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| − | * [[July 24]] - Birthday of [[Simon Bolivar]] observed in [[Venezuela]], [[Colombia]], and [[Ecuador]]. [[Pioneer Day (Utah)|Pioneer Day]] observed in [[Utah]].
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| − | * [[July 28]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Peru]].
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| − | * [[August 1]] - [[Lammas]], "Loaf Mass," a Cross-quarter day, [[Switzerland|Swiss]] National Day.
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| − | * [[August 6]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Jamaica]].
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| − | * [[August 9]] - [[National Day]] in [[Singapore]].
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| − | * [[August 14]] - [[Pakistan]] [[Independence Day]].
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| − | * [[August 15]] - [[India]] [[Independence Day]].
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| − | * [[August 17]] - [[Indonesia]] [[Independence Day]].
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| − | * [[August 20]] - [[Stephen I of Hungary|St. Stephen]]'s day, the main national holiday in [[Hungary]].
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| − | * [[August 28]] - [[India]] [[Raksha Bandhan|Raksha Bhandhan]].
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| − | * [[August 31]] - [[National Day]] in [[Malaysia]].
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| − | * [[September 3]] - [[Labour Day]] in [[Canada]] and the [[USA]].
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| − | * [[September 7]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Brazil]].
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| − | * [[September 11]] - [[National Day]] in [[Catalonia]].
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| − | * [[September 12]]-[[September 14]] - [[Rosh Hashana]] begins at sunset: New Year 5768 in the [[Hebrew Calendar]].
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| − | * [[September 13]] - [[Ramadan]] begins for the religion of [[Islam]].
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| − | * [[September 16]] - [[Mexico]] [[Independence Day]].
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| − | * [[September 18]] - [[Chile]] [[Independence Day]].
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| − | * [[September 21]] - [[Yom Kippur]] or ''Yom ha-kippurim'', the Day of Atonement in the Jewish faith, begins at sunset, and continues until after sunset.
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| − | * [[September 21]] - [[Malta]] [[Independence Day]]
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| − | * [[September 22]] - [[Belize]] Independence Day.
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| − | * [[September 23]] - National Day of [[Kingdom of Saudi Arabia]]
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| − | * [[September 27]] - [[Sukot]] or [[Tabernacles]] in [[Judaism]].
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| − | * [[October 1]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Nigeria]].
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| − | * [[October 2]] - [[Gandhi Jayanti]] in [[India]].
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| − | * [[October 8]] - [[Thanksgiving]] in [[Canada]]. [[Columbus Day]] in the USA this year.
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| − | * [[October 8]] - [[Battle of Angamos]] Day in [[Peru]].
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| − | * [[October 12]] - [[Columbus Day]] in Central and South America.
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| − | * [[October 23]] - [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]] Anniversary in [[Hungary]]
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| − | * [[October 31]] - [[All Hallows' Eve]], [[Halloween]].
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| − | * [[November 1]] - [[All Saints' Day]]. [[Samhain]], a cross-quarter day. [[Neopagan]] New Year's Day.
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| − | * [[November 9]] - [[Diwali]] festival in [[India]].
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| − | * [[November 11]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Poland]].
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| − | * [[November 22]] - [[Thanksgiving]] in the USA.
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| − | * [[November 30]] - [[St. Andrew's Day|Saint Andrew's Day]]
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| − | * [[December 1]] - National Day in [[Romania]]
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| − | * [[December 6]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[Finland]].
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| − | * [[December 11]] - [[Independence Day]] in [[South Africa]]
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| − | * [[December 19]] - [[Eid ul-Adha]] in [[Islam|Muslim]] countries.
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| − | * [[December 22]] - [[Winter Solstice]] Winter festival/holiday for those of Pagan faiths.
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| − | * [[December 23]] - [[Festivus]] Winter festival/holiday for the rest of the general population.
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| − | * [[December 24]] - [[Christmas Eve]] People get ready for Christmas
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| − | * [[December 25]] - [[Christmas]] in Western [[Christianity]].
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| − | * [[December 26]] - [[Boxing Day]] in most [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]] countries.
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| − | * [[December 31]] - [[New Year's Eve]]
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| − | {{Events by month}}
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| − | ==References==
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| − | {{reflist}}
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | * [http://www.accuracyproject.org/2007calendar.html 2007 Calendar] at Internet Accuracy Project
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