WHAT HAPPENED IN 2007.
Look what happened the 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)

Nicolas Sarkozy takes office as President of France. (16. May 2007)

Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953. (17. May 2007)

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

Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the death of nine people and the grounding of a trade ship, the MV Pasha Bulker. (8. June 2007)

Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people. (11. June 2007)

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

The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina killing nine firefighters. (18. June 2007)

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

Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. (27. June 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)

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

Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. (1. July 2007)

Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world. (10. July 2007)

U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet. (12. July 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)

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)

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)

Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president. (25. July 2007)