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Events from the year 2007 in the United States.
Contents |
Incumbents
- President - George W. Bush
- Vice President - Dick Cheney
Events
January
- 10 January - President Bush announces a plan to station 21,500 additional troops in Iraq.
- 30 January - Microsoft releases Windows Vista and Office 2007
- January 31 - Delta Air Lines creditors officially reject US Airways' hostile takeover bid.
- January 31 - 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 2 - An unseasonal tornado in central Florida kills at least 20 people.
- February 28 - The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter which changes its trajectory towards Pluto.
March
- March 6 - Mega Millions sets a new world record for the highest lottery jackpot of US $370 million.
- March 16 - For the first time in the 23-year history of the modern version of the popular gameshow, Jeopardy!, a three-way tie occurred.
April
- April 1 - WWE put on Wrestlemania 23 in Detroit, Michigan.
- April 16 - 32 people are killed in the Virginia Tech massacre on the premises of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
- April 17 - The Pound Sterling hits a 15-year high against the US dollar, breaking through the US$2 level for the first time since 1992.
- April 19 - US and allied air forces conduct massive exercises over South Korea with over 500 planes.[1]
- April 25 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 135.95 points to close at 13089.89; its first close above 13000 in its history.
- April 25 - The Burj Dubai reaches the height of the Sears Tower on its way to becoming the tallest building in the world.
- April 25 - A U.S. Congressman introduces articles to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.[2]
May
- May 4 - Tornado strikes Greensburg, Kansas, killing at least twelve and destroying about 90% of the town.
- May 4 - Executive Directive 51, which specifies the procedures for continuity of the federal government in the event of a "catastrophic emergency" signed by President George W. Bush
- May 31 - A calendar blue moon occurred in the Western Hemisphere and parts of the Eastern Hemisphere.
June
- June 2 - Four people are charged with a terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York. Coincidentally, Kelsey Smith was killed on the same day.[3]
- June 3 - The Valley of Geysers in Russia was destroyed by a mudflow.[4]
- June 4 - Ten people, including a Californian National Guard officer and former Hmong general, are charged over plans to overthrow the Laotian Government.[5][6]
- June 5 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft made its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury.
- June 8 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched on mission STS-117.
- June 14 - The San Antonio Spurs sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers to win the 2007 NBA Finals.
- June 15 - Bob Barker airs his last episode of The Price is Right
- June 24 - South Lake Tahoe - A wildfire starts eventually destroying 254 homes in the area.
- June 25 - WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy Benoit, and son Daniel, are found dead as the result of a murder-suicide that took place over the previous weekend.
- June 25 - Groundbreaking of the Chicago Spire.
- June 30 - The Hawaii Superferry arrives in Honolulu after a 7,600 mile journey from Mobile, Alabama
July
- July 7 - Venus Williams wins the Women's Singles, at Wimbledon for a fourth time.
- July 7 - Live Earth Concerts are held throughout 9 major cities around the world.
- July 8 - Boeing launches the new Boeing 787.
- July 10 - A Cessna 310R twin-engine airplane crashes into two homes in Sanford, Florida, killing three adults and two children.
- 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 18 - At the height of rush hour in New York City a major steam pipe bursts, releasing millions of gallons of boiling water and super heated steam. Only one fatality occurred; a pedestrian who went into cardiac arrest.
- July 19 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14,000 for the first time in history.
- July 21 - Vice President Dick Cheney serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure.
August
- August 1 - The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on I-35W over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota between University Avenue and Washington Avenue collapses at 6:05 pm CST during the later part of rush hour, killing 13 people.
- August 1 - Scouting celebrates its 100th birthday with worldwide celebrations.
- August 4 - The Phoenix spacecraft launches toward the Martian north pole.
- August 6 - The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah collapses, trapping six miners.
- August 7 - Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron's home run record by hitting his 756th home run.
- August 8 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour is successfully launched on mission STS-118.
- August 9 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 387.18 points, its largest single-day drop since February 27.
- August 12 - Tiger Woods wins PGA Championship, his 13th career major.
- August 15 - NBA referee Tim Donaghy surrenders to police and pleads guilty to charges brought up by the FBI investigation that he placed bets on games that he refereed.
- August 21 - STS-118 lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing Space Shuttle Endeavour's 19th flight.
- August 22 - The Texas Rangers score thirty runs in one game, setting the modern (post-1900) MLB record for most runs by one team in a single game, in a 30-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
- August 27 - United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation, to be effective September 17.
- August 30 - 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident in which a B-52 flew from Minot AFB, ND to Barksdale AFB, LA carrying 6 nuclear warheads.
September
- September 25 - Halo 3 is released, breaking all previous records in entertainment history by generating $170 million in the first 24 hours of release.
October
- October 10 - The SuccessTech Academy school shooting occurs in Cleveland, Ohio.
- October 15 - Drew Carey debuts as host of The Price is Right replacing the retired Bob Barker.
- October 20 - Georgia's governor Sonny Perdue declares state of emergency due to drought cond* October 20–November 9 - Wildfires in Southern California result in the evacuation of more than 1,000,000 people and destroying over 1,600 homes and businesses.
- October 26 - Apple Inc. launch the sixth major release of their Mac OS X operating system entitled, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
- October 28 - The Boston Red Sox win the 2007 World Series in a four-game sweep against the Colorado Rockies.
- October 31 - World Economic Forum releases The Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008, at 11.00 CET.
November
- November 3 - DARPA Grand Challenge, a prized competition for driverless cars to navigate safely in traffic is scheduled.
- November 4 - Daylight saving time in the United States and most of Canada will end, one week later than the previous schedule, in accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
- November 5 - The Writers Guild of America goes on strike.
- November 6 - Legislative elections are held in the U.S. states of Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia; Kentucky and Mississippi also hold gubernatorial elections.
- November 8 - The 8th annual Latin Grammy Awards were held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, U.S.
- November 27 - The Annapolis Conference, a peace conference trying to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, is held in Annapolis, Maryland.
December
- The National Intelligence Estimate(NIE) controversially expresses "high confidence" that Iran's nuclear weapons program has not operated since 2003.
- December 4 - The United States Senate approves the Peru Free Trade Agreement.
- December 10 - WWE's RAW program celebrates it's 15th anniversity, the longest running entertainment series in television history.
- December 20 - In the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Tom Tancredo withdraws and endorses Mitt Romney.
- December 25 - An escaped tiger kills one human and injures two others at the San Francisco Zoo.
Scheduled events
November
- November 30 - The 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially ended.
December
Ongoing
Births
Deaths
January
- January 1 - Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b. 1909)
- January 1 - Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
- January 7 - Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (b. 1957)
- January 8 - Yvonne de Carlo, American actress (b. 1922)
- January 11 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author and conspiracy researcher (b. 1932)
- January 12 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
- January 13 - Michael Brecker, American jazz musician (b. 1949)
- January 14 - Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
- January 16 - Benny Parsons, American race car driver and television personality (b. 1941)
- January 17 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
- January 19 - Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
- January 30 - Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- January 31 - Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
- January 31 - Molly Ivins, American columnist (b. 1944)
February
See Deaths in 2007
References
- ^ (Japanese) News From Korean Central News Agency Of Dprk
- ^ Kucinich Files Impeachment Articles Vs. VP, Democratic Presidential Hopeful Dennis Kucinich Files Articles, Saying Threat Of War Vs. Iran "Is Very Real" - CBS News
- ^ "4 charged with terror plot at JFK airport, official says". CNN News. Retrieved on 2007-06-02.
- ^ Russian GEO, N10, 2007, p. 167
- ^ "2 charged in Laotian overthrow plot". Yahoo News. Retrieved on 2007-06-04.
- ^ "10 charged with alleged Laos plot". CNN. Retrieved on 2007-06-04.
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