WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 2007
Find out what all happened January to June 2007

The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins. (2. February 2007)

Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq. (31. January 2007)

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker. (8. June 2007)

The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time. (13. June 2007)

Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7 mi wide EF5 tornado—the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita Scale. (4. May 2007)

2007 Algiers bombings: Two bombings in the Algerian capital of Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others. (11. April 2007)

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone. (9. January 2007)

The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. (7. March 2007)

Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama. (1. March 2007)

Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself. (20. April 2007)

The Al-Khilani Mosque in Baghdad is bombed, killing 78 people and injuring 218 others. (19. June 2007)

A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents. (23. February 2007)

The Chinese Correction: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in ten years. (27. February 2007)

Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board. (1. January 2007)

Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Slovenia joins Eurozone. (1. January 2007)

At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq. (22. January 2007)

Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people. (18. February 2007)

Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years. (12. January 2007)

The Left Front government of West Bengal sends at least 3,000 police to Nandigram in an attempt to break Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee resistance there; the resulting clash leaves 14 dead. (14. March 2007)

"Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots. (1. March 2007)

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