What was cool about the year 2007?

President George W. Bush signed the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 into law. Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the House. The MESSENGER spacecraft performed a second flyby of Venus, NASA's Phoenix spaceship was launched, and Comet McNaught became the brightest comet in over 40 years.

What cool things happened in 2007?

What bad event happened in 2007?

Boston Marathon. Apr 16 Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 people and injures 23 others before committing suicide.

What happened in March 2007?

Iraq War: A car bomb in Baghdad kills at least 26 people. (CNN) Two car bombs kill at least 9 United States Army soldiers north of Baghdad.

What happened in July 2007?

Jul 16 An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake. Jul 17 TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo.

REMEMBER 2007

What happened happened in 2007?

June 8 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launches on mission STS-117. June 10 – The Sopranos ended with the infamous cut to black ending. June 14 – The San Antonio Spurs sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the 2007 NBA Finals. June 15 – The Price Is Right airs its final episode hosted by Bob Barker .

What happened in January 2007?

January 2007 North American Ice Storm hits parts of North America including United States and Canada, causing 74 deaths across 12 U.S. states and three Canadian provinces, and caused hundreds of thousands of residents across the U.S and Canada to lose electric power.

What happened in February 2007?

Iraq War: 18 February 2007 Baghdad bombings: At least 56 people are killed and more than 120 injured in two car bombs in a Shia district of Baghdad, police sources have said. (BBC) U.S. marine Robert Pennington is sentenced to eight years in military prison for his role in the killing of an Iraqi civilian.

What happened on May 19 2007?

The tsunami took place on 19th May 2007 and lasted for about 35 minutes, reaching peak speeds around 20 minutes after the initial blast.

What happened on September 5 2007?

5 Sept, 2007 South Korea First Astronaut

September 5th, 2007 : Thirty year old Ko San was chosen as South Korea's first astronaut. The engineer spent time training in Russia and was set to visit the International Space Station with two Russian cosmonauts in 2008.

What happened in 2007 2009 in American history?

Lasting from December 2007 to June 2009, this economic downturn was the longest since World War II. The Great Recession began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, which makes it the longest recession since World War II. Beyond its duration, the Great Recession was notably severe in several respects.

What happened on May 8 2007?

War in Iraq: A suicide bomber kills at least 10 people and injures many more in an attack on the Shi'ite city of Kufa in Iraq. (BBC) (Reuters)

What happened on July 10 2007?

Pakistani forces storm the Lal Masjid Mosque in Islamabad, bringing the Lal Masjid siege to an end. At least 3 soldiers and 40 militants die in the assault.

What decade was 2007?

2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.

What happened on jan 11 2007?

January 2007 North American Ice Storm hits parts of North America including United States and Canada, causing 74 deaths across 12 U.S. states and three Canadian provinces, and caused hundreds of thousands of residents across the U.S and Canada to lose electric power.

What happened on 14 November 2007?

On November 14, 2007, a dust storm swept over the borders of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite took this picture the same day.

What happened September 17 2007?

In Washington, tens of thousands of peace activists marched from the White House to the Capitol on Saturday to protest the war in Iraq. Police arrested around 190 protesters after they took part in a die-in in front of the Capitol.

What happened on July 17 2007?

2007 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, crashes into a warehouse after landing too fast and missing the end of the São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway, killing 199 people.

What happened on 11th October 2007?

The Ajmer Dargah bombing (also called the Ajmer Sharif blast) occurred on 11 October 2007, in the courtyard of Sufi maulana Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India, after the Iftar period had started.

What events happened in October 2007?

2007 California fires: At least nine wildfires burn out of control in Southern California leading to the death of a San Diego man. (Reuters) Fire engulf parts of Malibu, California leading to the evacuation of homes including those of James Cameron and Olivia Newton-John.

What happened in April 2007?

College Student Guns Down Dozens in Virginia (April 16): Male student kills two in a Virginia Tech dorm. Two hours later, he kills 30 more in a classroom building before committing suicide. The shooting rampage is the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others are wounded.

What happened on July 13 2007?

Typhoon Man-yi: The death toll in the sinking of the MV Blue Water Princess of the coast of Luzon in the Philippines rises to 15. (Fox News)

What happened on July 21 2007?

War in Iraq: United States forces attack an insurgent position in Hussainiya, a Shiite suburb north of Baghdad, inflicting casualties. (New York Times) US and Iraqi troops raid a Sunni mosque and detain 18 suspected militants.

What happened on April 1 2007?

APOD: 2007 April 1- Americans Defeat Russians in First Space Quidditch Match.