WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 2007
Find out what all happened February to November 2007

Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years. (24. September 2007)

Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end. (31. July 2007)

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

President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. (2. October 2007)

Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run. (7. August 2007)

¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez. (10. November 2007)

Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea. (24. February 2007)

Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people. (11. June 2007)

50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi. (2. November 2007)

Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894. (25. April 2007)

MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities. (23. November 2007)

Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. (13. February 2007)

China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon. (5. November 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)

10,000–40,000 people march toward the royal palace of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur to hand over a memorandum to the King demanding electoral reform. (10. November 2007)

Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution. (18. September 2007)

Colin McRae dies when the helicopter he was piloting crashes near his Lanarkshire home. (15. September 2007)

Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion. (29. September 2007)

Phoenix News Helicopter Collision: news helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; (27. July 2007)

Philippines: A bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people. (19. October 2007)

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