WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO DECEMBER 2007
Find out what all happened February to December 2007

Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president. (18. September 2007)

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

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

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

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

An F5 tornado strikes Elie, Manitoba in Canada; part of the town is destroyed, but there are no fatalities or injuries. (22. June 2007)

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

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

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first woman elected President of Argentina. (28. October 2007)

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

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

Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the presidential election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis. (27. December 2007)

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

Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations. (4. 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)

Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years. (14. September 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 Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit. (7. December 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)

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

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