WHAT HAPPENED IN 2007.
Look what happened the 2007.

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

Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board. (1. January 2007)

The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history. (4. January 2007)

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone. (9. January 2007)

A general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign. (10. January 2007)

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

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

The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people and Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. (18. January 2007)

Turkish Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast. (19. January 2007)

A three-man team, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance. (20. January 2007)

At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq. (22. January 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)

The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins. (2. February 2007)

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

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

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

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