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2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.

2007 was designated as:

International Heliophysical Year.^[1]
International Polar Year.^[2]
European Year of Equal Opportunities for All.^[3]
Year of Rumi.^[4]
Year of the Dolphin.^[5]
Scotland's Year of Highland Culture.
Scouting Centenary, celebrating 100 years of the Scout Movement.

UNESCO has recognized fifteen anniversaries for 2007.^[6]

Events

January

Nancy Pelosi

January 1
- Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union.
- Slovenia adopts the Euro as its official currency, replacing the tolar.
- South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new United Nations Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
- Smoking is banned in all public places in Hong Kong.
- Adam Air Flight 574, a routine domestic flight in Indonesia, disappears; debris is found 10 days later, but the aircraft remains missing.
- Angola joins OPEC.
- War in Somalia: Fighters of the Islamic Courts Union abandon their last stronghold in Kismayo and flee for the Kenyan border.
January 2 – The new constitution of Gibraltar comes into force.^[7]
January 3 – China conducts an anti-terror raid in Xinjiang.
January 4 – Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
January 5 – War in Somalia: The first shots are fired in the Battle of Ras Kamboni.
January 8
- Daniel Ortega becomes President of Nicaragua for the second time.
- Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia-Belarus energy dispute escalates; they are restored 3 days later.
January 9
- War in Somalia: U.S. planes conduct air strikes in Somalia against suspected terrorists.
- An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in Balad, Iraq; the Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down.
- Apple Inc. announces and introduces the highly speculated iPhone at the 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo.^[8]
January 10 – President of the United States George W. Bush announces a plan to station 21,500 additional troops in Iraq.
January 11
- In Bangladesh, a state of emergency is declared by caretaker President Iajuddin Ahmed, following weeks of violent protests preceding upcoming parliamentary elections.
- Vietnam joins the World Trade Organization as its 150th member.
- China successfully tests a ground-based ballistic missile capable of destroying satellites in orbit, drawing criticisms from other countries.
January 12
- An Argentine judge issues a warrant for the arrest of former President Isabel Martínez de Perón, in connection with the disappearance of a human rights worker in 1976.
- The U.S. Embassy in Athens is attacked with a rocket propelled grenade, which causes minimal damage and no injuries.
- Comet McNaught, the brightest comet in more than 40 years, makes perihelion.
January 13 – The Greek ship Server breaks in half off the Norwegian coast, releasing over 200 tons of crude oil.
January 14 – The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement adopts the Red Crystal as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations.
January 17
- Hurricane force winds from storm Kyrill claim at least 40 lives in western Europe.
- Protests occur in India and the United Kingdom against the British series of Celebrity Big Brother, after Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara were allegedly racially abusive towards Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
- The Doomsday Clock is advanced from 7 to 5 minutes to midnight.
January 18
- Comet McNaught, the brightest comet to appear in more than 40 years, becomes visible over the Southern Hemisphere.

Hurricane Kyrill creates havoc as it passes across northern Europe.

- The strongest storm in the UK 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.
January 19 – Israel releases $100 million in frozen assets to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority, in order to bolster the president's position.^[9]
January 22 – A bombing in a market in Baghdad, Iraq kills 88 people.
January 24 – The Israeli Ministry of Justice announces that the President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, will be charged with rape and abuse of power.
January 25 – The President of Israel, Moshe Katsav, takes a temporary leave of absence due to a sex scandal.
January 28 – A battle between insurgents and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops kills 300 suspected resistance members in Najaf, Iraq.
January 28 – February 4 – The 2007 Asian Winter Games are held in Changchun, China.
January 30 – Microsoft releases Windows Vista and Office 2007.
January 31
- The Venezuelan National Assembly gives President Hugo Chávez the power to rule by decree for 18 months.
- Delta Air Lines creditors reject US Airways' hostile takeover bid.
- The Mooninite scare occurs in Boston, when devices used in a guerrilla marketing campaign for the animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force are mistaken for improvised explosive devices.

February

February 1 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair is questioned for a second time in the 'cash for peerages (Cash for Honours)' probe as a witness.
February 2
- An unseasonal tornado in central Florida kills at least 20 people.
- Palestinian factional violence: Hamas and its rival Fatah renew their truce after violence broke out following the initial ceasefire.
- Chinese President Hu Jintao signs a series of economic deals with Sudan.
- War in Somalia: Eight people are killed in a mortar attack in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
- Martti Ahtisaari unveils a United Nations plan for the final status of Kosovo; Serbian leaders denounce the proposal.
- The IPCC publishes its fourth assessment report, having concluded that global climate change is "very likely" to have a predominantly human cause.
February 3
- The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu is found at a Bernard Matthews turkey farm in Suffolk, England.
- A state of emergency is declared in Indonesia after 'El Nino'-like flooding.
- A truck bombing in a crowded Baghdad market kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339 others.
February 11 – Portuguese voters agree to legalise abortion in a national referendum.
February 12 – An armed gunman shoots and kills 5 people at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to 6.
February 13
- North Korea agrees to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon by April 14 as a first step towards complete denuclearization, receiving in return energy aid equivalent to 50,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.^[10]
- Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as Kuomintang party chairman after being indicted on charges of embezzlement; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
February 22 – A large fire causes 26 fatalities in the "Reģi" care center in Alsunga, Latvia.
February 25 – The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, is held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. The Departed wins Best Picture.
February 26 –
- The International Court of Justice finds Serbia guilty of failing to prevent genocide in the Srebrenica massacre, but clears it of direct responsibility and complicity in the case.
- Estonia becomes the first country to hold general Internet elections.
February 27
- The Chinese Correction: World stock markets plummet after China and Europe release less-than-expected growth reports.
- 2007 Bagram Air Base bombing: A Taliban suicide attack at Bagram Air Base while Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney is visiting kills 23, but he is not injured.
February 28 – The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter, which changes its trajectory towards Pluto.

March

March 1
- The International Polar Year, a $1.5 billion research program to study both the North Pole and South Pole, is launched in Paris.
- Airbus announces that it will cease work indefinitely on the A380F freight aircraft.
March 3 – A total lunar eclipse occurs.
March 6 – Mega Millions sets a new world record for the highest lottery jackpot of US $370 million.
March 7 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 (Boeing 737-400) crashes at Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java, killing many on board.
March 8 – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admits that Israel had planned an attack on Lebanon in the event of kidnapped soldiers on the border, months before Hezbollah carried out its kidnapping.
March 12 – BBC journalist Alan Johnston disappears in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip.
March 17 – Chlorine bombs injure hundreds in Baghdad, Iraq.
March 22 – NATO troops kill 38 in 2 assaults in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
March 23 – Naval forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard seize Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters.
March 27 – Prime Minister of Latvia Aigars Kalvitis and Prime minister of Russia Mikhail Fradkov finally sign a border treaty between Latvia and Russia.
March 31 – Sydney, Australia turns off its lights for 1 hour between 7:30pm and 8:30pm as a political statement about Global Climate Change.

April

April 2 – The Solomon Islands are shaken by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake, and hit by a subsequent tsunami killing 52.
April 3 – Second Orange Revolution: Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko dissolves the Ukrainian Parliament, following defections that increased the majority of his opponents.
April 4
- NATO and Afghan forces retake a key town from the Taliban, Sangin in southern Helmand Province.
- Iran announces it will release the British sailors and marines that they captured on March 23. The captives arrive back in the UK the next day.
April 5 – The Greek cruise ship M/S Sea Diamond strikes a reef off the harbor of Santorini; the ship sinks the next day.
April 6 – Severe clashes between 2 rival factions erupt in Parachinar, a tribal area of Pakistan bordering the famous Tora Bora Heights.
April 11 – Al Qaeda claims responsibility for 2 bomb blasts in the Algerian capital of Algiers, which kill 33 people and injure 222 others.
April 14 – Retired chess champion Garry Kasparov is detained in Moscow for participating in a banned march.

United States President George W. Bush with Virginia Tech Student Government Association President James Tyger after his speech at the school's convocation.

April 16 – Thirty-two people are killed in the Virginia Tech massacre on the premises of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
April 18 – Thirty-two Chinese steel workers are burnt to death in the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster.
April 19 – U.S. and allied air forces conduct massive exercises over South Korea with over 500 planes.^[11]
April 23 – Bogotá, Colombia begins its term as World Book Capital.
April 24 – Gliese 581 c, a potentially habitable Earth-like extrasolar planet, is discovered in the constellation Libra.
April 25 – U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduces articles to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.^[12]
April 26 – Russians riot in Tallinn, Estonia, about moving the Bronze Soldier; 2 nights of rioting leave 2 dead.

May

May 3 – The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Matthew Shepard Act. It is the first time that the House brings a gay rights bill to the floor for a vote.
May 4 – A tornado kills 12 in Greensburg, Kansas, destroying about 90% of the town.
May 5 – Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
May 6 – French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy wins the French presidential election, succeeding incumbent President Jacques Chirac 10 days later.
May 7 – The 2007 Chinese slave scandal is exposed.
May 9 – Subtropical Storm Andrea forms off the coast of Florida, the earliest since Subtropical Storm Ana in 2003.
May 15 – The coalition government of Fatah and Hamas in the Palestinian National Authority breaks down, as massive fighting breaks out in Gaza Strip.
May 16 – The United Nations General Assembly, recognizing that genuine multilingualism promotes unity in diversity and international understanding, proclaims 2008 the International Year of Languages [1].
May 17 – The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate re-unite after 80 years of schism.
May 20
- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum of Dubai makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East.
- Clashes in Tripoli, Lebanon, spark the 2007 Lebanon conflict.
May 21 – The 19th century ship Cutty Sark is badly damaged by fire in London, UK.
May 26 – Russia is once again recognized as a full-fledged superpower by the United States.^[13]
May 27 – Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) is taken off the air after the government of Venezuela refuses to renew its license. This action results in protests. On July 16, 2007, RCTV resumes broadcasting via cable and satellite.
May 31 – A calendar blue moon occurs in the Western Hemisphere and parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.

June

June 1
- A 2,100-year-old melon is discovered by archaeologists in western Japan.^[14]
- U.S. warships bombard a Somali village where Islamic militants had set up a base.^[15]
June 2 – Four people are charged in a terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York.^[16]
June 3 – The Valley of Geysers in Russia is destroyed by a mudflow.^[17]
June 4 – Ten people, including a Californian National Guard officer and former Hmong general, are charged in a plot to overthrow the Laotian Government.^[18]^[19]
June 5
- NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
- A mass grave in southern Ukraine, found accidentally by workers in May, is confirmed to be filled with thousands of Holocaust victims.^[20]
- A train crash near Kerang in Victoria, Australia kills 11 people and injures 23 others.
June 6 – Twelve people are killed by cyclone Gonu in Oman.
June 6–8 – The 33rd G8 summit takes place amid strong protests in Heiligendamm, Germany.

Launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis

June 8
- The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-117.
- Storms in the coastal city of Newcastle, New South Wales^[21] kill 9 and flood the city and its surrounding areas.^[22]
June 18 – Nine Charleston, South Carolina firefighters are killed by a roof collapse while battling a furniture store fire.
June 22 – An F5 tornado tears through Elie, Manitoba; no injuries are reported.
June 24
- The refurbished Millennium Dome, now called The O₂, reopens in London.
- Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2007: Gordon Brown is elected Leader of the Labour Party UK, succeeding incumbent Tony Blair, and becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 3 days later.
June 25 – Following the wettest June on record in the United Kingdom, Sheffield and South Yorkshire are affected by flooding. Much of Sheffield, Doncaster and Rotherham is flooded when the River Don breaches its banks.
June 27 – The military police of the state of Rio de Janeiro invades the favela of Complexo do Alemão, causing a massacre.
June 28 – In the aftermath of Greece's worst heatwave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from heatstroke, approximately 200 wildfires break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand.
June 29 – British police defuse a bomb in Haymarket, Central London.^[23]
June 30
- A Jeep Cherokee drives into the entrance of the main terminal of Glasgow International Airport in an apparent terrorist incident, resulting in a petrol-driven fire.^[24]
- A calendar blue moon occurs in most of the Eastern Hemisphere.
- The Hawaii Superferry arrives in Honolulu after a 7,600 mile journey from Mobile, Alabama.

July

July 1
- Portugal takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Germany.
- The Concert For Diana is held at Wembley Stadium to commemorate Diana, Princess of Wales.
July 2 – Venus and Saturn are in conjunction, separation 46 arcsecs.
July 3 – Torrential rains cause the onset of the 2007 Sudan floods, the worst in the Sudan's history.
July 4 – After being held captive for 114 days, BBC journalist Alan Johnston is freed by his Palestinian kidnappers.
July 7 – Live Earth Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world.
July 8 – Boeing launches the new Boeing 787.
July 10 – Zheng Xiaoyu, head of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China, is executed.
July 12 – Queen Elizabeth II visits the world's largest Commonwealth war grave in Ypres, Belgium to pay respects to fallen soldiers of the Battle of Passchendaele.
July 14 – Following a presidential decree, Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
July 15 – In Tacoma, Washington, the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens to traffic, making it the longest twin suspension bridge in the world.
July 16 – An earthquake in Japan kills 7 and causes a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break, releasing about 300 gallons of radioactive water.^{[citation needed]}
July 17 – TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 overruns the runway of Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport and crashes, killing all 186 and others on the ground.
July 18 – Nelson Mandela convenes a group of world leaders to contribute their ideas to tackle some of the world's toughest problems.^{[citation needed]}
July 19
- Russia expels 4 British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of 4 of Russia's diplomats. Russia also refuses to cooperate with Britain over the war on terror.^{[citation needed]}
- Prathiba Patil is elected as the first female President of India.
July 21 – The final book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is released and sells over 11 million copies in the first 24 hours, becoming the fastest selling book in history.^[25]
July 22
- Floods cause chaos through wide areas of Great Britain, especially the counties of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and Oxfordshire, leaving hundreds homeless and thousands of vehicles stranded on major roads.
- A bus carrying 50 Polish pilgrims crashes near Grenoble, France, killing 26 people and injuring 24.^{[citation needed]}

August

Security camera images show the collapse in animation of the I-35W bridge, looking north.

August 1
- The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on I-35W over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota collapses at 6:05 pm CST during the later part of rush hour, killing 13 people.
- Scouting celebrates its 100th birthday with worldwide celebrations.
- In a decision in the Supreme Court of South Australia by Justice Thomas Gray, Bruce Trevorrow, a member of the Stolen Generation, is awarded $775,000 compensation.
August 3 – Foot and mouth disease is found on a farm at Wanborough, near to Guildford, Surrey. A UK-wide ban on movement of all livestock is put in place the following day.
August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft launches toward the Martian north pole.
August 6
- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrives in the historic Palestinian town of Jericho, becoming the first Prime Minister of Israel to visit the West Bank or Gaza Strip in more than 7 years. Olmert meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
- The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah collapses, trapping 6 miners.
August 14
- Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq.
- At least 22 people are killed, and at least 39 missing, as a bridge collapses in the southeastern province of Hunan, China.^{[citation needed]}
August 15 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.
August 16 – The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah, collapses a second time, killing 3 rescue workers and injuring 6 more.
August 17 Vladimir Putin issues a statement, revealing that Russia is to resume the flight exercises of its strategic bombers in remote areas. The flights were suspended in 1991 after the Collapse of the Soviet Union.

Rapidfire – NASA image of the Greek wildfires, taken on 25 August.

August 18
- Typhoon Sepat makes landfall in eastern Taiwan.
- The remnants of Tropical Storm Erin re-strengthen into a tropical storm over Oklahoma, causing widespread flooding and wind damage.
August 21 – Hurricane Dean, a powerful Category 5 storm, slams into a largely evacuated Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.
August 25
- Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis declares a national state of emergency after a series of devastating wildfires ravage western Peloponese and southern Euboea, killing 68 people.
- Forty-four people are dead after 2 bombs explode in Hyderabad, India.
August 30 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: A B-52 flies from Minot AFB, ND to Barksdale AFB, LA carrying 6 nuclear warheads.

September

September 1 – Finland switches off all of its analogue terrestrial television signals as part of the digital switchover.
September 2–9 – The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit hosts its 19th annual city meeting in Sydney.
September 3 – British troops withdraw from the Basra region of Iraq.
September 4 – Northeast Nicaragua takes a direct hit from Hurricane Felix. The hurricane is a strong Category 5 storm when it reaches the coast.
September 6
- Operation Orchard: Israeli airplanes strike a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
- A bomb explodes in Batna, Algeria as a crowd gathers to see Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika; 19 people die, 107 are wounded by the attack.
September 8 – Over 50 people die when a car bomb explodes in the Algerian port city of Dellys.
September 12
- The Sandiganbayan finds former Philippines President Joseph Estrada guilty beyond reasonable doubt on the charges of plunder, but acquits him on the charges of perjury.
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces his resignation, effective September 19.
- Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and his entire cabinet resign.
September 13 – The Burj Dubai becomes the world's tallest free standing structure, after surpassing the CN Tower in Toronto.
September 14
- The SELENE spacecraft launches. JAXA has called the mission, "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program."
- Viktor Zubkov is approved as the new Prime Minister of Russia after a vote in the Duma.
September 15 – Over 3,000 Taiwanese Americans and their supporters rally in front of the UN in New York City to demand that the UN accept Taiwan. At the same time, over 300,000 Taiwanese people rally in Taiwan to make the same plea.

Myanmar protests

September 16 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 crashes in Phuket, Thailand, killing 89 passengers and crew.
September 19 – Typhoon Wipha hits Fuding, China. Authorities had evacuated over 2 million people prior to the storm's landfall.
September 20 – The 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures opens in Monterrey, Mexico.
September 21 – The Supreme Court of Chile rules that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori must be extradited to Peru, to face charges of corruption and human rights abuse.
September 26
- Emperor Akihito swears in Yasuo Fukuda as the 91st Prime Minister of Japan.
- The first confirmed deaths result from the Myanmar military's crackdown on weeks-long anti-government protests. Buddhist monks are arrested and Internet access is cut from the public.^[26]
- In southern Vietnam the Can Tho Bridge, which is under construction, collapses, killing scores of workers.

October

October 2 – South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il meet in Pyongyang, for the second Inter-Korean Summit.
October 4 – Spanish authorities arrest 22 people associated with the banned Batasuna party, which campaigns for Basque independence, but also has ties to the terrorist group ETA.
October 8 – Track and field star Marion Jones surrenders her 5 Olympic medals she won in the 2000 Sydney Games, after admitting to doping.

Flames burn Santa Clarita, California during the California wildfires of October 2007.

October 14
- Robert Dziekanski, a Polish immigrant to Canada, dies after being tasered twice by the Vancouver RCMP.
- Al-habileen/lahij: Four citizens are killed on the 44th anniversary of the revolution against British colonial rule in South Yemen.
October 15
- Members of the Armed Offenders Squad, Special Tactics Group and several hundred New Zealand Police officers take part in anti-terror raids in New Zealand.
October 17 – Whitehaven becomes the first place in the United Kingdom to have one of its analogue terrestrial television signals switched off as part of the digital switchover.
October 18
- After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing 136, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escapes uninjured.
- In New York City, one of the worlds leading art galleries, the Salander/O'Reilly Galleries, is forced into closure amidst scandal and lawsuits.
- Lucky Dube, a famous South African reggae artist, is murdered in front of two of his children in an attempted carjacking in the Johannesburg suburb of Rosettenville.
October 19 – A gas explosion rocks Glorietta, a shopping mall in Makati, Philippines, killing 11 and injuring more than 100.
October 20 – November 9 – Wildfires in Southern California result in the evacuation of more than a million people, and destroy over 1,600 homes and businesses.

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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

October 24 – In the space of a few hours, Comet Holmes develops a coma and flares up to half a million times its former brightness, becoming visible to the naked eye. Its coma later becomes larger in volume than the Sun, making it the second comet to do so in 2007 after Comet McNaught.
October 28
- The Vatican beatifies 498 Spanish victims of religious persecution from before and during the Spanish Civil War.^[27]
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first female elected president of Argentina.
October 31 – The World Economic Forum releases The Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008.

November

November 3 – President Pervez Musharraf declares a state of emergency in Pakistan.
November 4
- The DARPA Grand Challenge, a prized competition for driverless cars to navigate safely in traffic is scheduled.^{[citation needed]}
- Reformation Sunday is observed by Lutherans and other Protestants around the world, to commemorate the 490th anniversary (October 31) of the Ninety-Five Theses, which began the Protestant Reformation.
November 5 – The Writers Guild of America goes on a strike that lasts until February 12, 2008.
November 6 – A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan, including 6 members of the National Assembly.
November 7
- Jokela school shooting: Finnish youth Pekka-Eric Auvinen kills 8 people and wounds 1 at the Jokela School Centre.
- A 48-hour-long state of emergency for Tbilisi is declared by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, due to the intense anti-government protests that have gripped the capital city.
November 13 – An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, north of Manila, killing 4 people, including Basilan Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding 6 others.
November 14
- High Speed 1 from London to the Channel Tunnel is opened to passengers.
- A 7.7 magnitude earthquake occurs in northern Chile.
November 16 – Over 3,000 people are believed to have died after Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, with the death toll expected to rise.
November 18 – The Zasyadko mine disaster in eastern Ukraine claims the lives of 101 miners.

Kevin Rudd

November 20 – The UK's HM Revenue and Customs admits that it has misplaced 2 computer discs which contained the records of child benefit claimants data, including bank details and National Insurance numbers, in the United Kingdom, leaving up to 7.25 million households susceptible to identity theft.
November 21
- Senegalese street vendors riot in Dakar, after government attempts to ban them from operating in the center of the capital city.^{[citation needed]}
- In Calcutta, protests over Bangladeshi feminist writer Taslima Nasreen turn into deadly riots; troops are deployed.^[28]
November 24 – Police break up anti-Putin demonstrations in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
November 25
- Nawaz Sharif makes a second attempt to return to Pakistan along with his brother Shahbaz Sharif and other family members.
- Riots continue for a second night in Val-d'Oise, France following the death of 2 youths in a motorcycle collision with a police vehicle.
- The United Nations Development Programme releases the 2007/2008 Human Development Report.

Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Annapolis Conference.

November 27 – The Annapolis Conference, a peace conference trying to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, is held in Annapolis, Maryland in the United States.
November 28 – President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf stands down as the head of the Pakistan Army, and is successed by Lt. General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
November 29 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lays siege to The Peninsula Manila, after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
November 30 – Atlasjet Flight 4203 crashes near Keçiborlu, Turkey, killing all 56 people on board.

December

December 2 –
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's proposed changes to the Venezuelan constitution are narrowly defeated in a nationwide referendum.
- Brazil started to broadcast ISDB-based SBTVD in a ceremony with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
December 3 – Winter Storms bring record amounts of rain fall in the Pacific Northwest, causing flooding and closing a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days. At least eight deaths and billions of dollars in damages occur in Washington.
December 3 – 14 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference is held at Nusa Dua in Bali, Indonesia.
December 5 – Robert A. Hawkins shoots 8 people dead and injures 5 at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, then commits suicide.
December 7 – Uranus' orbit is positioned such that the sun shines directly above its equator (i.e. an equinox).
December 8 – The 2007 Africa-EU Summit takes place as European Union and African Union leaders gather in Lisbon, Portugal, for their first joint summit in 7 years. The British and Czech prime ministers boycott the event due to the presence of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
December 10 – The United Nations deadline for a negotiated settlement on the future of Kosovo passes without an international agreement.
December 11 – In Algiers, Algeria, 2 bombs explode within 10 minutes of each other, the first near a UN office and the other detonated close to the Algerian Supreme Court. The official death count for both blasts stands at 31.
December 13
- European leaders sign the Treaty of Lisbon in Lisbon.
- The revised version of the European Patent Convention (EPC), known as the EPC 2000, enters into force.
- Former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell publicly releases a report, accusing 89 retired and active Major League Baseball players of anabolic steroid use.
December 15 – President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf lifts the state of emergency in Pakistan.
December 19
- Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is announced as Time magazine's 2007 Person of the Year.
- An explosion and fire at the T2 Laboratories facility in Jacksonville, Florida kills 4 and injures 14.
- The Flying Phantom sinks in the River Clyde, killing 3 crew personnel.
December 20
- A group of activist Lakota people send a letter to the United States State Department, declaring their secession from the Union as the Republic of Lakotah.
- An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 M_L hits the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, causing 1 death and significant damage in the town of Gisborne.
- The Pablo Picasso painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, together with Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.
December 21 – The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the Schengen border-free zone.
December 23 – Conjunction (astronomy and astrology): A grand celestial alignment takes place.
December 24 – The Nepalese government announces that the country's 240-year-old monarchy will be abolished in 2008 and a new republic will be declared.
December 25 – An overcrowded suspension bridge collapses near Nepalgunj, Nepal. At least 15 people are dead, with 100 to 200 missing.
December 27 – Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated, and at least 20 others are killed by a bomb blast at an election rally in Rawalpindi.
December 31 – Over 200 people are killed in Kenya, due to riots over the results of the December 27 presidential election.

Births

February 28 – HRH Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco, daughter of Mohammed VI of Morocco and his wife, Princess Lalla Salma.
March 12 – Xan Windsor, Lord Culloden, son of Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster and Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster.
March 14 – Simeon Hassan Muñoz, son of Princess Kalina of Bulgaria and Kitín Muñoz.
March 17 – HRH Prince Abdul Muntaqim, son of HRH Al-Muhtadee Billah and his wife, HRH Pengiran Anak Sarah, the Crown Prince and Princess of Brunei.
March 19 – HRH Prince Abdullah bin Al Ali, son of Prince Ali bin Al Hussein and Rym Brahimi.
April 7 – HRH Princess Haalah bint Al Hashim, daughter of Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein and Princess Fahdah Mohammed Abu Neyan.
April 10 – HRH Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, daughter of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima.
April 18 – HRH Princess Hayah bint Al Hamzah, daughter of Prince Hamzah and Princess Noor bint Asem bin Nayef.
April 18 – HRH Prince Lerotholi Seeiso, son of King Letsie III of Lesotho and Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso.
April 21 – HRH Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark and his wife, Crown Princess Mary.
April 29 – HRH Infanta Sofía of Spain, daughter of Felipe, Prince of Asturias and his wife, Letizia, Princess of Asturias.
September 22 – Albert Windsor, son of Lord Nicholas Windsor and Paola Doimi de Frankopan.
December 17 – James Windsor, Viscount Severn, son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, The Countess of Wessex.