WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO AUGUST 2007
Find out what all happened April to August 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)

An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of Japan killing eight people, injuring at least 800 and damaging a nuclear power plant. (16. July 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)

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)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the fastest-selling novel ever is published. It sold 15 million copies in the first 24 hours of its release. (21. July 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)

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

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

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)

Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. (27. June 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 Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day (22. August 2007)

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

The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time. (13. June 2007)

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

The bulk carrier M/V New Flame collides with the oil tanker Torm Gertrud at the southernmost tip of Gibraltar, ending up partially submerged. (12. August 2007)

Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone. (29. June 2007)

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

Shambo, a black cow in Wales that had been adopted by the local Hindu community, is slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection, causing widespread controversy. (26. July 2007)