WHAT HAPPENED IN 2007.
Look what happened the 2007.

China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon. (5. November 2007)

Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google. (5. November 2007)

Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people. (7. November 2007)

The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause. (9. November 2007)

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

10,000–40,000 people march toward the royal palace of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur to hand over a memorandum to the King demanding electoral reform. (10. November 2007)

Russia officially withdraws from the Soviet-era Batumi military base, Georgia. (13. November 2007)

Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans. (15. November 2007)

MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. There are no fatalities. (23. November 2007)

The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny. (29. November 2007)

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affects the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad. (29. November 2007)

Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, and close a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages are blamed on the floods. (3. December 2007)

Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska, mall, killing eight people before taking his own life. (5. December 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)

Three unidentified gunmen storm an office of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party in Balochistan. Three PPP supporters are killed. (8. December 2007)

Insurgency in the Maghreb: Two car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations. (11. December 2007)

Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days. (20. December 2007)

The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art. (20. December 2007)

An agreement is made for the Kingdom of Nepal to be abolished and the country to become a federal republic with the Prime Minister becoming head of state. (23. December 2007)

Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident. (27. December 2007)

   
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