WHAT HAPPENED IN 2007.
Look what happened the 2007.

Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama. (1. March 2007)

"Squatters" are evicted from Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, provoking the March 2007 Denmark Riots. (1. March 2007)

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

Georgia claims Russian helicopters attacked the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later. (11. March 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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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)

   
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