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[baguhin] Marso 2007

  • Image:Bob Woolmer.JPG Bob Woolmer, former Test cricketer and coach of the Pakistan cricket team
    • March 22: Jamaican police announce that they are now treating the death of the Pakistan cricket team's coach Bob Woolmer (pictured) during the ongoing 2007 Cricket World Cup as a case of murder.
    • March 20: More than one hundred coal miners are confirmed dead in the Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster, Russia's worst mining accident in a decade.
    • March 18: Results of Finland's elections show the opposition gaining ground but incumbent Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen likely to remain in office.
    • March 16: The People's Republic of China adopts its first law regulating property ownership.
    • March 14: The World Wide Fund for Nature announces that the Bornean Clouded Leopard is a new species.
    • March 14 The beating and detention of Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai prompts renewed international condemnation of President Robert Mugabe's regime.
  • March 14: The British House of Commons votes to renew the Trident missile system.
  • The Cassini spacecraft images several sea-sized bodies of liquid on Saturn's moon Titan.
  • Image:Matti Vanhanen, G8 summit.jpg Matti Vanhanen, Finnish prime minister
  • March 18: UT Air Flight 471 crashes during an emergency landing at Samara Kurumoch Airport, Russia, killing at least seven people.
  • March 10: According to The Pentagon's released transcript, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed states he helped plan more than two dozen acts of terrorism, including the September 11, 2001 attacks.
  • Image:Giant Lake on Titan.jpg Titan, centered on large lake feature
  • Image:Khalid-cropped.jpg Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
  • March 11: Jacques Chirac, President of France since 1995, announces that he will not seek a third term of office in the upcoming presidential election.
  • Image:President Chirac (cropped).jpg Jacques Chirac
  • March 13: The Climate Change Bill, a proposed new law aiming to reduce carbon emission in the United Kingdom, is published.
  • March 9: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf suspends Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on charges of misuse of authority.
  • The Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin make gains in the Northern Ireland Assembly election, ensuring that in order for direct rule to cease, both parties must agree to cooperate in a powersharing Executive.
  • March 7: Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes upon landing in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing at least 22 people.
  • March 6: Lewis "Scooter" Libby former chief of staff to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, is convicted on four of five felony counts in connection with the Plame affair.
  • March 5: In Estonia, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip's Reform Party wins a plurality in the parliamentary elections.
  • March 2: Riots break out in Nørrebro, Copenhagen following the eviction of squatters from Ungdomshuset by Danish police.
  • Image:Scooter Libby crop.jpg Lewis "Scooter" Libby
  • March 2: Pakistani authorities report the capture of Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, the most senior Taliban official captured since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.
  • March 2: A scandal over unsanitary conditions at the United States Army's Walter Reed Medical Center prompts the departure of Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey.

[baguhin] Pebrero 2007

  • February 27: Abdoulaye Wade is re-elected as President of Senegal.
  • Image:Scooter Libby cropped.jpg Lewis "Scooter" Libby]
  • February 27 Abdoulaye Wade is re-elected as President of Senegal.
  • Image:Ungdomshuset M-cropped.jpg Ungdomshuset
  • February 26: The International Court of Justice finds Serbia not guilty of committing genocide in Bosnia, but finds that it failed to prevent the genocide in Srebrenica and violated its international obligations by not handing over individuals accused of the crime.
  • February 24/28: Prime Minister Romano Prodi and his government win a confidence vote in the Italian Senate, allowing them to continue in office.
  • February 25: The Departed wins four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Directing, giving director Martin Scorsese his first Academy Award.
  • February 24: Cyclone Favio makes landfall in Mozambique and is expected to worsen flooding in the Zambezi River valley.
  • February 22: A plan to withdraw 1,600 British troops from the multinational force in Iraq is announced.
  • February 22: In the Netherlands, the fourth Balkenende cabinet is sworn in by Queen Beatrix.
  • Image:Scorsese-MainPage.jpg Academy Award in Directing winner Martin Scorsese, in 2002.
  • February 19: Sixty-eight people are killed in bombings on the Samjhauta Express train traveling between India and Pakistan.
  • February 17: A Turkish court gives life sentences to seven al-Qaeda associates for their involvement in the 2003 Istanbul bombings.
  • Image:RomanoProdi cropped 2june2006 049.jpg Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi
  • Image:Tony Blair.jpg Tony Blair
  • February 17: The U.S. House of Representatives passes a non-binding resolution opposing President George W. Bush's troop surge plan for the Iraq War
  • February 17: The general strike in Guinea resumes; President Lansana Conté places the country under martial law and an eighteen-hour-a-day curfew.
  • February 15: A major winter storm affects much of the eastern half of North America, killing at least thirty-five people.
  • February 14: Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow is declared the winner of the presidential elections in Turkmenistan and sworn in immediately afterwards; the International Crisis Group states that the elections are "blatantly falsified".
  • February 13: In the six-party talks, North Korea agrees to shut down the Yongbyon nuclear reactor in exchange for fuel aid and steps towards normalization of relations with the United States and Japan.
  • February 12: The 49th Annual Grammy Awards take place in Los Angeles, California.
  • February 12: A court in Stuttgart rules that former Red Army Faction member Brigitte Mohnhaupt is to be paroled from prison almost thirty years after the German Autumn.
  • February 12: The 49th Annual Grammy Awards take place in Los Angeles, California.
  • February 12: A court in Stuttgart rules that former Red Army Faction member Brigitte Mohnhaupt is to be paroled from prison almost 30 years after the German Autumn.
  • February 11: Swede Anja Pärson becomes the first alpine skier in history to have World Ski Championship gold medals in all five disciplines.
  • February 7: Following two months of negotiations a coalition agreement is reached in the Netherlands.
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  • February 7: In the United Kingdom, the seventh letter bomb attack in three weeks occurs at the DVLA headquarters in Wales.
  • February 3: At least 132 people are killed and 339 injured in a truck bombing at a marketplace in Baghdad.
  • February 2: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that there is more than a 90% chance that global warming has a human cause.
  • February 2: The Italian Football Federation temporarily cancels all football-related events after match-related violence in Catania, Italy.
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  • February 5: The Indianapolis Colts defeat the Chicago Bears 29 to 17 in Super Bowl XLI.
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[baguhin] January 2007

  • January 30: Nearly three hundred people are killed during a battle between insurgents and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops in the Shi'a holy city of Najaf.
  • Image:Dolphinsmiamistadm.png Dolphin Stadium
  • January 30: Nearly three hundred people are killed during a battle between insurgents and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops in the Shi'a holy city of Najaf.
  • January 27: In Guinea, a general strike that has resulted in at least fifty-nine deaths in violent clashes between police and demonstrators ends after seventeen days.
  • January 27/28: Roger Federer wins the men's single title at the 2007 Australian Open without losing a single set; Serena Williams, unseeded for the tournament, wins the women's single title.
  • January 27: In Guinea, a general strike that has resulted in at least fifty-nine deaths in violent clashes between police and demonstrators ends after seventeen days.
  • January 26: The Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan rejects the nomination of Felix Kulov for a second time and instead approves Azim Isabekov as the new Prime Minister.
  • Image:Federer cropped.jpg Roger Federer (2005 photo)
  • January 25: Moshe Katsav temporarily relinquishes his position as President of Israel amid allegations of multiple offenses, including rape and obstruction of justice.
  • Image:Moshe Katsav 2003-05-11 cropped.jpg Moshe Katsav
  • January 25: Amidst continued civil unrest between pro and anti-government groups in Lebanon, the military imposes an overnight curfew on Beirut.
  • January 24: The black boxes of Adam Air Flight 574, which disappeared on New Year's Day, are located off the coast of West Sulawesi, Indonesia.
  • January 22: Indian spacecraft SRE 1 successfully completes a twelve-day orbital test flight, making India one of the few nations to return a craft from orbit.
  • January 22: Vojislav Šešelj's Serbian Radical Party wins a plurality of seats in Serbian elections but admits it will be unlikely to form a government.
  • January 21: Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to appear in over forty years, becomes visible over the Southern Hemisphere
  • Image:Flag of Lebanon.svg Flag of Lebanon.
  • January 19: Ogün Samast, alleged assassin of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, is arrested in Samsun.
  • Image:Comet McNaught - Levin.NZ.jpg Comet McNaught
  • Image:ISRO-SCRE-1-Spacecraft-1.jpg SRE1
  • January 19: Major winter storms kill at least 45 in Europe and 85 in North America.
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[baguhin] December 2006

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    • December 11: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (pictured) opens a conference aiming to "review the Holocaust".
    • December 11: In his final speech in office, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan encourages the United States to provide global leadership whilst respecting multilateralism.
    • December 11: Christer Fuglesang, the first Scandinavian in space, and six other astronauts on mission STS-116 arrive at the International Space Station.
    • December 10: Incumbent Igor Smirnov wins presidential elections in the internationally unrecognized state of Transnistria.
    • December 10: Former Chilean head of state Augusto Pinochet (age 91) dies one week after suffering a heart attack.
    • December 9 Marc Ravalomanana is re-elected as President of Madagascar.
  • December 10: Christer Fuglesang becomes the first Scandinavian astronaut in space as the Space Shuttle Discovery (pictured) is launched on a mission to the International Space Station.
  • December 8: Ethiopia begins to intervene in the Somali Civil War.
  • December 6: The Iraq Study Group releases its final report, describing the situation in the Iraq War as "grave and deteriorating" and making seventy-nine policy recommendations.
  • December 5: The Fijian military under Commodore Frank Bainimarama takes control of the government.
  • December 5: After killing nearly six hundred people in the Philippines, Typhoon Durian (Reming) strikes Vietnam, leading to over eighty more deaths.
  • December 4: Hugo Chávez is re-elected as President of Venezuela.
  • December 4: Fijian troops occupy the police headquarters in Suva, as their conflict with the government continues to escalate.
  • December 3: The Sudan People's Liberation Army clashes with government forces in Malakal, Sudan, resulting in more than three hundred deaths.
  • December 1: The 15th Asian Games, a multi-sport event with forty-five countries participating, open in Doha, Qatar.
  • December 1: Typhoon Durian (Reming) strikes the Philippines and Vietnam, killing more than four hundred people.

[baguhin] November 2006

  • November 28: Economist and former Finance Minister Rafael Correa wins the Ecuadorian presidential election after a run-off.
  • November 23: A series of car bombs and mortar attacks kills more than 200 people in Sadr City, Iraq.
  • November 23: The Socialist Party gains in Dutch elections, while Jan Peter Balkenende's Christian Democrats retain their plurality in the Tweede Kamer.
  • November 23: Former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko dies in a hospital in London after being poisoned with polonium.
  • November 21: Maoist rebels in Nepal sign a peace treaty with the government, officially ending a ten-year civil war.
  • November 21: An international consortium signs a deal to formally launch ITER, a project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor.
  • November 21: Pierre Amine Gemayel, Minister of Industry in Lebanon, is assassinated in Beirut.
  • November 21: Former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko is critically ill in a London hospital after a suspected thallium poisoning.
  • November 21: Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, winner of five Olympic, eleven World Championship and ten Commonwealth gold medals, announces his retirement at the age of twenty-four.
  • November 18: A Malagasy general fails in his military coup attempt against President Marc Ravalomanana.
  • November 16: Ségolène Royal wins the Socialist Party's nomination for President of France in next year's election to become France's first female presidential candidate representing a major party.
  • November 15: Joseph Kabila is declared winner of the election for the presidency of the Democratic Republic of Congo. His opponent, Jean-Pierre Bemba, alleges fraud.
  • November 14: The Parliament of South Africa votes to legalize same-sex marriage.
  • November 10: Nadarajah Raviraj, a human rights lawyer and legislator from the Tamil National Alliance, is assassinated in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  • November 9: A new Constitution of Kyrgyzstan adopted by the Joghorku Keneš is signed into law by President Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
  • November 8: Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense; Robert Gates is nominated as his replacement.
  • November 8: The Democratic Party wins control of both chambers of the United States Congress.
  • November 8: Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense; Robert Gates is nominated as his replacement.
  • November 8: Margaret Chan is elected as the next Director-General of the World Health Organization.
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[baguhin] Hunyo

  • June 30: A controversial new law on authors' rights is approved by the French Parliament.
  • June 29: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that planned Guantanamo Bay military tribunals are illegal.
  • June 29: Democrats 66 prompts a Dutch coalition cabinet collapse over the Ayaan Hirsi Ali affair, resulting in early elections in November.
  • June 29: Women in Kuwait participate in general elections for the first time.
  • June 28: The Republic of Montenegro becomes the 192nd member of the United Nations.
  • June 28: Israel launches a major incursion into the Gaza Strip to free captured soldier Gilad Shalit.
  • June 27: Nguyễn Minh Triết is elected by the National Assembly as President of Vietnam, and appoints Nguyễn Tấn Dũng as Prime Minister.
  • June 26: Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri of East Timor resigns in the wake of a national crisis.
  • June 25: The world's two leading steel producers, Arcelor and Mittal, announce their merger.
  • June 25: Billionaire Warren Buffett pledges a record US$30.7 billion in shares to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
  • June 24: The death penalty is abolished in the Philippines.
  • June 24: The U.S. Navy concludes Valiant Shield, its largest Pacific military exercise since the Vietnam War.
  • June 22: 2014 Winter Olympics bids are approved for Sochi, Salzburg, and Pyeongchang.
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[baguhin] Enero

  • Enero 27: Germany's former President, Johannes Rau, has died at the age of 75.
  • Enero 25: Deus Caritas Est (Latin: "God is love"), the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI, is published.
  • Enero 25: Google agrees to block certain search terms from its service in China.
  • Enero 25: Elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council are held for the first time in ten years.
  • Enero 23: In the Canadian federal election Stephen Harper's Conservatives defeat Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberals and will form a minority government.
  • Enero 23: The new Emir of Kuwait, Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, agrees to abdicate after only ten days on the throne.
  • Enero 23: At least 39 people die in the Bioče train disaster, Montenegro's worst-ever train accident.
  • Enero 23: The Ford Motor Company announces plans to lay off nearly a quarter of its North American workforce.
  • Enero 21: Aníbal Cavaco Silva is elected the first right-wing President of Portugal since the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
  • Enero 21: President Ibrahim Rugova of Kosovo dies in office at age 61.
  • Enero 20: Final results of the Iraqi elections are released, with the United Iraqi Alliance winning 128 of 275 seats in the National Assembly.
  • Enero 19: The New Horizons spacecraft is launched successfully from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a nine-year mission to Pluto.
  • Enero 18: Alleged fraud prompts heavy sales of livedoor stock, forcing the Tokyo Stock Exchange to close early for the first time.
  • Enero 16: Tarja Halonen and Sauli Niinistö take the first round of the Finnish presidential election.
  • Enero 15: Socialist Michelle Bachelet is elected the first female President of Chile.
  • Enero 15: Voting begins in the Finnish presidential election.
  • Enero 15: The Stardust sample return capsule lands near Dugway Proving Ground with particles from Comet Wild 2.
  • Enero 15: Sheikh Jaber, the Emir of Kuwait, dies after 28 years in office, and is succeeded by the Crown Prince, Sheikh Saad.
  • Enero 14: A U.S. missile strike targets al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri but instead kills 18 civilians in the tribal areas of Pakistan. The Pakistani government protests the strike as a violation of Pakistani sovereignty.
  • Enero 14: Augustine Volcano in Alaska erupts for the first time in almost two decades.
  • Enero 12: Hundreds of pilgrims are killed in a Hajj stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual.
  • Enero 12: Mehmet Ali Ağca, who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, is released from prison.
  • Enero 12: The first annual ministerial meeting of the APPCDC climate conference is held in Sydney, Australia.
  • Enero 9: Doctors treating Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attempt to wake him from an induced coma.
  • Enero 9: U.S. Senate confirmation hearings continue for United States Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito.
  • Enero 7: Embattled U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay officially resigns from his leadership post.
  • Enero 7: Doctors say Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's chances of survival from his massive stroke are "very high" but that he will likely suffer permanent cognitive impairment.
  • Enero 7: Following controversy over his confessed alcoholism, Charles Kennedy resigns as leader of the British Liberal Democrats party.
  • Enero 6: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization warns that 11 million are threatened by the Horn of Africa food crisis.
  • Enero 5: Microsoft releases a high priority fix for the Windows Metafile vulnerability.
  • Enero 5: Fifteen bodies are recovered from the Bad Reichenhall ice rink roof collapse in Bavaria, Germany.
  • Enero 5: Reports suggest Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may never recover from a hemorrhagic stroke.
  • Enero 4: Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Emir of Dubai and PM of the United Arab Emirates, dies.
  • Enero 4: Twelve of thirteen trapped coal miners are found dead in the West Virginia Sago Mine in the U.S.
  • Enero 4: Russia agrees to resume the supply of gas to Ukraine.
  • Enero 3: U.S. lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to three felony counts in a political corruption scandal.
  • Enero 2: Ugandan presidential candidate Kizza Besigye is released from prison.
  • Enero 2: One coal miner is rescued from the Sago Mine accident in the U.S. state of West Virginia despite initial reports of 12 survivors.
  • Enero 2: Several exploits of a severe Microsoft Windows security vulnerability spread over the Internet, with no patch from Microsoft available.
  • Enero 1: Russia cuts gas supplies to Ukraine, leading to a significant drop in gas imports for many European countries.
  • Enero 1: Tropical Storm Zeta (pictured) continues activity in the Atlantic Ocean, becoming only the second tropical cyclone on record to exist across two calendar years in the Atlantic.