WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 2007
Find out what all happened January to August 2007

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

TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with 199 deaths. (17. July 2007)

Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq. (15. January 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)

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

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

The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing. (17. January 2007)

Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world. (10. July 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)

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)

Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping. (3. August 2007)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. (15. August 2007)