WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO MAY 2007
Find out what all happened April to May 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)

Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record. (3. April 2007)

President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension. (19. May 2007)

A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people. (12. April 2007)

Nicolas Sarkozy takes office as President of France. (16. May 2007)

At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (14. April 2007)

15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President. (4. April 2007)

The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision. (18. April 2007)

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

Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. (12. May 2007)

The Los Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy. (1. May 2007)

Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953. (17. 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)

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

Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem. (7. May 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)

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)

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