WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO SEPTEMBER 2007
Find out what all happened February to September 2007

All 114 aboard Kenya Airways Flight 507 die when the pilots lose control of the plane and it crashes in Douala, Cameroon. (5. May 2007)

An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889. (8. August 2007)

Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. (1. July 2007)

The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre. (27. June 2007)

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

Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia. (27. April 2007)

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

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

Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. (27. June 2007)

A series of bombings, two of them being suicides, occur in Baghdad, killing 198 and injuring 251. (18. April 2007)

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

The skeletal remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Anastasia are found near Yekaterinburg, Russia. (23. August 2007)

Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate. (20. September 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)

A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. (3. February 2007)

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

Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada is convicted of the crime of plunder. (12. September 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)

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)

Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 and injures 23 before committing suicide. (16. April 2007)

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