November 2007

November 2007

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November 2007 is the eleventh month of that year. It began on a Thursday and 30 days later, ended on a Friday.

International holidays

November 1 - All Saints Day.
November 1 - World Vegan Day.
November 2 - Day of the Dead
November 5 - Guy Fawkes United Kingdom
November 10 - Diwali festival in India.
November 11 - Veterans Day (observed) in the United States.
November 11 - Independence Day in Poland.
November 15 - Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil.
November 22 - Thanksgiving in the United States.
November 28 - Independence Day in Albania.

Portal:Current events

November 1, 2007 (Thursday)

The Swedish Mint (Swedish: Myntverket) in Eskilstuna, Sweden, loses the competition to produce Swedish national coins to Rahapaja OY of Finland, ending a more than 1000-year-long tradition of minting Swedish coins in Sweden. (Dagens Nyheter)
Automaker Chrysler announces plans for cutting an additional 12,000 jobs worldwide as part of a major restructuring plan. (AP via CNN)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges over 360 points, or 2.6%, in its worst daily loss since February 27. Similar percentage losses occurred in Europe earlier in the day. (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
2007 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Noel strengthens into a Category 1 hurricane and heads towards Bermuda having killed at least 108 people so far. (Reuters)
Benazir Bhutto leaves Karachi for United Arab Emirates amidst speculations that President Pervez Musharraf might impose martial law in Pakistan. (Dailyindia.com/ANI)
2007 Tabasco flood: Massive flooding hits the Mexican state of Tabasco, with Governor Andrés Granier estimating that 80% of its 25,000 km² surface area is underwater. (BBC) (El Universal)
The London Metropolitan Police is found guilty of violations of Health and Safety law over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on the London underground in July 2005, and is fined £175,000 and ordered to pay £385,000 in legal costs. (Sky News) (BBC)
Flash floods in central Vietnam kill at least 13 people and injure 31 with 14,000 homes submerged in Quang Tri, Quang Binh and Quang Nam provinces. (Reuters)
A suicide bomber attacks a bus carrying Pakistan Air Force personnel in Punjab resulting in at least five deaths and 40 people being injured. (AP via NYT)

November 2, 2007 (Friday)

The United Nations will send home 108 of the 950 Sri Lankan peacekeepers in Haiti, accusing them of sexual abuse, including with underage girls. (BBC)
2007 Georgian demonstrations: Tens of thousands of Georgians protest outside parliament in Tbilisi, urging President Mikhail Saakashvili to step down. (BBC)
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November 3, 2007 (Saturday)

2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- President Pervez Musharraf declares a period of emergency rule amid rising militant violence. (BBC) (Reuters)

November 4, 2007 (Sunday)

At least six people are killed as a Learjet 35 crashes into a residential district in São Paulo, Brazil. (Reuters via News Limited)
The Wall Street Journal reports that Charles Prince has resigned as the head of Citigroup to be replaced by former United States Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin. (BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Former cricketer and leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan escapes from house arrest.^{citation needed}
- Lawyers prepare for a countrywide strike tomorrow.^{citation needed}
Guatemalan general elections are held to elect a new president. (BBC)
Antonio Cromartie of the San Diego Chargers breaks the record for the longest play in NFL history with a 109 yard missed field goal return.^{citation needed}

November 5, 2007 (Monday)

The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong drops over 1,500 points, or 5%, three days after a previous sizable decline. The Hang Seng registers its largest daily loss since September 2001. (Bloomberg)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- The Netherlands suspends aid to Pakistan following the imposition of emergency rule.^{citation needed}
- Several demonstrating lawyers protesting outside the Sindh High Court are arrested.^{citation needed}
- President of the United States George W. Bush calls on the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf to end the state of emergency and restore civilian rule. (BBC)
Italian police arrest Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo, his son Sandro and two other mafiosi in Carini, Palermo. (BBC)
A fire at a retirement home in a village near Tula, Russia, kills at least 23 people. (BBC)
The Writers Guild of America asks 12,000 of its members to join a Hollywood screenwriters strike over a dispute over residuals. (BBC)
Álvaro Colom is elected President of Guatemala in the 2007 general election. (Reuters)
Google and the Open Handset Alliance announce the Android mobile phone platform, a joint effort in handheld computing. (Ars Technica) (CNN)
The number of people in southern Mexico displaced by the 2007 Tabasco flood nears a million (VOA), with 300,000 more still trapped in their homes, waiting to be rescued. (BBC)

November 6, 2007 (Tuesday)

Queen Elizabeth II formally opens High Speed 1 and London's St Pancras station, the new home for Eurostar trains linking London with Paris and Brussels as of November 14, replacing the Eurostar terminus at Waterloo station. (BBC)
At least 35 people are killed and dozens more wounded in a suicide bombing in northern Afghanistan, officials say. (BBC)
2007 Belgian government formation: Belgium sets a new national record for the longest period without a new government – 149 days have passed since the general election – as parties are still trying to bridge their opposing views on state reforms. (Daily Telegraph)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency: Over 100 anti-emergency activists are arrested as part of a crackdown process in Pakistan.^{citation needed}
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia visits the Vatican in what is the first audience by the head of the Roman Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch. (BBC)
Scores of students are injured and arrested ahead of protests in Venezuela. The demonstrations, scheduled for Wednesday, are to demand a delay to a referendum aimed at expanding the powers of Hugo Chávez. (ABC News Australia)
Efficient wins the 2007 Melbourne Cup. (ABC News Australia)
The incumbent People's National Movement party retains power in the Trinidad and Tobago elections. (BBC)
John "Jordan" Lewis is arrested by the Miami-Dade Police Department for the killing of Police Officer Charles Cassidy at a Dunkin Donuts shop in the East Oak Lane section of Philadelphia on October 31, 2007. [1]

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November 7, 2007 (Wednesday)

About 80,000 students march in Caracas, Venezuela, to protest against a constitutional referendum that would give more power to President Hugo Chávez. Nine students are injured by riot controllers at the Central University of Venezuela. (NYT)
In Belgium, government formation discussions have gone on for a record 150 days as Flemish and Walloon politicians clash over Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde. (Economist)
Astronomers in the United Sates have found a fifth planet in orbit around the star 55 Cancri 41 light years from Earth. (BBC)
Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center, ending STS-120, a 15-day mission to the International Space Station. (Spaceflightnow.com)
A fire in Gwalior, India, ruins over 400 small stores. Losses are estimated at 10 million rupees (USD 250,000).^{citation needed}
Taliban militants capture the Pakistani town of Madyan in Waziristan's Swat region and hoist their flags over buildings.^{citation needed}
Four Albanian militants are killed in a Macedonian police operation. (Wikinews)
2007 Georgian demonstrations: Georgian riot police use tear gas, water and sonic^[1]^[2] cannons to break up thousands of anti-government protesters calling for the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili in Tbilisi. (Aljazeera) The President announces a 15-day nationwide state of emergency. (AP via CNN)
At least eight people are killed and several injured in a school shooting in Tuusula (Tusby), north of Helsinki, Finland. (BBC)
The U.S. dollar stumbles to new lows after Cheng Siwei, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, calls for China to shift more of its $1.43 trillion of currency reserves into "stronger currencies", such as the euro. (MarketWatch)
Brad Wall is elected as Premier of Saskatchewan as his Saskatchewan Party defeats the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party by a 37-21 margin in the 26th Saskatchewan general election. (CBC)

November 8, 2007 (Thursday)

EU interior ministers agreed that nine member states from central and eastern Europe are sufficiently prepared to join EU's Schengen border-free zone on December 21. (EUobserver)
A United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Santa Lucia di Piave, Italy, killing four people and injuring six. (BBC)
The United States Senate confirms Michael Mukasey as the Attorney General of the United States. (Reuters)
At least 29 miners are killed in a gas leak in a colliery in China's Guizhou province. (BBC)
Pakistan Television quotes President Pervez Musharraf as saying that Pakistan will hold elections before 15 February 2008.^{citation needed}
2007 North Sea flood: a 3 metre storm tide heads for the English Channel, causing dozens of flood warnings by the UK's Environment Agency. Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls an emergency COBRA meeting for Friday, as the wave could potentially affect thousands of properties and a threat to many lives. The tidal wave is thought to be caused by gale-force winds off Scotland and high tides. 200 are evacuated. (Daily Mail) (BBC)
At least seven construction workers are killed and 15 others injured when a bridge under construction collapses in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (BBC)
2007 Georgian demonstrations:
- Georgia's opposition says it is suspending anti-government protests in Tbilisi, after President Mikhail Saakashvili declared a state of emergency and closed all independent news outlets. (IHT)
- President Mikhail Saakashvili justifies the police action by saying that neighboring Russia was stirring trouble and that he had expelled three Russian diplomats. (VOA)
- President Mikhail Saakashvili announces that he will participate in a special presidential election on January 5, 2008, and that a referendum will held on the same day for the timing of parliamentary elections, which the opposition had demanded be held next spring. (NYT)
The United States Congress overrides President George W. Bush's veto of the $23 billion Water Resource Bill. (CNN)
Asian markets drop sharply for the third time in five sessions. The volatile Hang Seng Index drops nearly 1,000 points on the day, and the Shanghai Composite Index ends nearly 5% lower. (MarketWatch)

November 9, 2007 (Friday)

Student protests against the 2007 Venezuelan constitutional referendum continue. Five people are wounded in Mérida in a clash between rival student groups. (NYT)
The People's Republic of China suspends the export of toys covered in a toxic chemical 1,4-butanediol that have been recalled in both the United States and China. (AP via IHT)
The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a state of emergency to clean up an oil spill in San Francisco Bay caused by a container ship hitting the San Francisco Bay Bridge on Wednesday. (BBC)
At least 40 people die in Mogadishu in heavy fighting between Ethiopian forces and Somalian Islamist insurgents. (Reuters via News Limited)
Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony tells peace negotiator Norbert Mao that Vincent Otti, his former deputy, is not dead as rumored, but is under house arrest for espionage. (BBC)
Iraqi insurgency: The United States Army releases five Iranian suspects who had been arrested in Iraq. (BBC)
2007 North Sea flood: The Environment Agency of England and Wales issues eight severe flood warnings for eastern England with residents ordered to evacuate from 7,500 homes in Great Yarmouth. (CNN)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Benazir Bhutto is placed under house arrest hours before a proposed mass rally against the 2007 Pakistani state of emergency. Over 5000 supporters of Pakistan Peoples Party have been arrested to avert rally. (AFP via Channel News Asia) (BBC)
- Benazir Bhutto is released from house arrest bringing to an end a day long stand-off between the former prime minister and security forces. (CNN)
Protests break out in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, over the caricatures of Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a local newspaper. (Kashmir Observer)

November 10, 2007 (Saturday)

Iranian police arrest about 180 Sufi Muslims who attacked a Shia mosque in Borujerd after a cleric said their religion was "illegitimate". (BBC)
Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva uncovers a 4,000-year-old temple in the Ventarron site in the Lambayeque Region of Peru. (Reuters)
Six American forces serving under NATO's International Security Assistance Force are killed in an insurgent ambush while patrolling in eastern Afghanistan. (CNN)
2007 Bersih Rally: Malaysia sees its largest political protest in 10 years. (CNN)
Battle of Mogadishu (November 2007): More than 70 people die and over 200 are wounded in battles in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. (BBC)
2007 North Sea flood: The German ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven suffer in the floods. (Euronews)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Malik Mohammad Qayyum, the Attorney General of Pakistan predicts that the 2007 Pakistani state of emergency could be lifted within a month. (BBC)
- Benazir Bhutto is to lead a long march against the emergency on 13 November.
Stagehands belonging to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees go on strike, shutting down most Broadway plays and musicals. (AP via Fox News)
Workers at La Scala opera house in Milan go on strike in a dispute over pay and contracts. (BBC)

November 11, 2007 (Sunday)

Prince William, an officer in the Blues and Royals, laid a wreath for the first time by the Cenotaph as the Queen, his grandmother, and his father, the Prince of Wales, looked on. (AP)
A majority of French citizens would support a union with the French-speaking Belgian region of Wallonia if Belgium were to cease to exist, according to a survey. (Journal du Dimanche)
A similar survey held in the Netherlands shows that 45% of the Dutch would support a union with Flanders, whereas 49% would oppose such a union. (Trouw)
Danilo Türk wins the 2007 Slovenian presidential elections with a large margin. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister, Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith are arrested in Phnom Penh to face charges before that country's U.N. genocide tribunal. (AP via FOX News)
The Ulster Defence Association announces that its Ulster Freedom Fighters' units are to stand down from midnight. (RTÉ)
Gabriele Sandri, a 26-year old supporter of the sports club S.S. Lazio is killed by police in a service station near Arezzo, Italy. Football fans later clash with police in most Italian stadiums. (BBC)
Transport for London takes over the North London Line and the other suburban rail lines hitherto operated by Silverlink to form the London Overground. While remaining part of the National Rail network, the contracting authority for the franchise is Transport for London, rather than central Government.

November 12, 2007 (Monday)

Didymus Mutasa, the Minister of Lands and Security of Zimbabwe, admits in a court in Paris, France, that the Mugabe government stole land from ten citizens of the Netherlands. If the government does not voluntarily compensate the citizens then they have the right to seize property owned by the Zimbabwean government of equal value. (VOA)
The Milan Court of Appeal sentences Giovanni Consorte, Ivano Sacchetti and Emilio Gnutti to six months in jail for insider trading in the Unipol case. (Rainews24)
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki reappoints Samuel Kivuitu as the head of Kenya's Electoral Commission ahead of the 2007 general election. (BBC)
Georgian opposition parties choose Levan Gachechiladze as their common candidate to challenge President Mikhail Saakashvili in the 2008 presidential election. (BBC)
IBM announces it will buy business intelligence firm Cognos for US$5 billion. (BBC)
A 16-year-old Spanish anti-racism activist is killed during a far-right anti-immigration protest in Madrid. (BBC)
The trial of Yvan Colonna, a Corsican separatist accused of murdering former Prefect of Corse-du-Sud Claude Erignac in 1998, opens in Paris. (BBC)
Airbus and Boeing both win a giant order of 100 planes from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, a United Arab Emirates jet leasing corporation.htry5rytfyrt (BBC)
A new government headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, India's main opposition party, takes office in the state of Karnataka. (BBC)
Bank of America, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase agree to a US$75 billion plan designed to heal the credit markets. (BBC)
War in Afghanistan: The United States Army kills 15 insurgents and three civilians in the Helmand Province. (BBC)
Nigeria's State Security Service arrests a group of Islamic militants with suspected links to al-Qaeda. (BBC)
Thousands of Fatah supporters gather in Gaza to mark the third anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death. Hamas security forces kill seven people and wound several. (BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Pakistan Army renews air attacks in the Swat valley targeting extremists positions.^{citation needed}
- Foreign ministers of the Commonwealth of Nations meet in London to discuss the issue of Pakistan. They demand that President Pervez Musharraf lift the state of emergency, release political prisoners and step down as army chief by November 22, or otherwise the country will be "suspended from the Councils of the Commonwealth." (BBC)
- Pakistan Supreme Court summons President General Pervez Musharraf to the hearing of a petition filed against him for proclaiming the state of emergency.^{citation needed}
- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto tells journalists in Lahore that she has ended talks with President Pervez Musharraf over power sharing. (BBC)
Russian troops kill eight suspected militants in Makhachkala, Dagestan. (BBC)
Ceferino Namuncurá is the first indigenous Argentinian to be beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. 100,000 people attend the ceremony in Chimpay. (BBC)
Four ships sink during a powerful storm in the Sea of Azov and Black Sea. 2,000 tonnes of fuel oil are spilled into the Strait of Kerch. Three sailors die and eight are missing. (BBC)
Intel announces that it is using a hafnium compound instead of silicon dioxide to insulate transistors in its newly introduced Penryn microprocessor, eliminating power leakage through the gate (but not through the channel). (WSJ)

November 13, 2007 (Tuesday)

The fossil of a new prehistoric great ape species, named Nakalipithecus nakayamai, is discovered in Kenya. (BBC)
Turkish helicopters bomb several Kurdistan Workers Party positions in northern Iraq. (BBC)
21 Cameroonian soldiers are killed by unknown attackers in the Bakassi peninsula. (BBC)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that an overwhelming victory for United Russia in the legislative elections would give him the "moral right" to maintain a strong influence in the country. (The Moscow Times)
In France, rail workers and Paris Métro personnel go on strike in the first wave of public-sector strikes. (Reuters)
An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing three people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding 10. (BBC)
Clean-up operations continue in the Strait of Kerch after the oil spill disaster. Ten ships have sunk, 2,000 tons of fuel oil and 6,000 tons of sulphur have been spilled, three sailors have died and about 20 are missing. (BBC)
Hamas security forces arrest 400 Fatah supporters after a rally to commemorate Yasser Arafat's death ended in gunfire. (BBC)
The President of Israel, Shimon Peres, meets the President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, in Ankara, and he will also address the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. (BBC)
Danish voters go to the polls for an early parliamentary election called by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency: Backed by hundreds of police officers, the Pakistani government again placed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto under house arrest to prevent a protest against President Pervez Musharraf. (NYT) (BBC)

November 14, 2007 (Wednesday)

Strikes in France:
- French transport and energy workers' strike against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform broadens, disrupting especially rail services. (BBC)
- President Nicolas Sarkozy calls for negotiations and a speedy end to the strikes, but the unions refuse. (BBC)
The 2007 National Book Awards go to Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke), fiction, Tim Weiner (Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA), non-fiction, Sherman Alexie (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian), young people's literature, and Robert Hass (Time and Materials), poetry. (Reuters)
German train drivers start a 62-hour train strike against Deutsche Bahn, asking for a 31% pay increase. (BBC)
The European Parliament far right bloc, Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty, collapses after five Romanian MEPs resign following Alessandra Mussolini's claim that Romanians are "habitual law-breakers". (BBC)
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hits northern Chile, near the town of Calama. Two deaths and over a hundred injuries are reported. (BBC)
President of Ghana John Kufuor is involved in a car accident in Accra, but is not hurt. (BBC)
Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian nuclear negotiator, is charged with espionage by Iran's intelligence ministry. He allegedly gave classified information to the British embassy. (BBC)
Iraqi insurgency: A roadside bomb kills two civilians near Baghdad's Green Zone. (BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan is arrested at the University of the Punjab in Lahore. (BBC)
- Pakistani forces kill at least 16 Taliban militants in heavy fighting in the Swat valley. (BBC)
Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's liberal-conservative government has secured a third term in office following early parliamentary elections to the Folketing. (The Times)
High Speed 1 (formerly known as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) opens for commercial use in Britain, linking London St. Pancras, which also opened for commercial use, to the Channel Tunnel. (BBC)

November 15, 2007 (Thursday)

Strikes in France: French transport workers' strike against President Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reform enters its second day, but energy workers and CFDT members return to work. (BBC)
German train drivers extend their strike action against Deutsche Bahn, starting a 48-hour passenger service strike. (BBC)
The United Nations General Assembly Third Committee approves a resolution draft that calls for a moratorium on the capital punishment. (Reuters)
The City of Westminster Magistrates' Court rules Egyptian-born Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he is accused of terrorism. (BBC)
A New South Wales coroner concludes that a group of five journalists, known as the Balibo Five, were deliberately killed by Indonesian forces in 1975 in order to prevent them exposing Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor. (AAP via stuff.co.nz)
Major League Baseball player Barry Bonds is indicted by a federal grand jury in San Francisco for perjury and obstruction of justice, having allegedly lied under oath about his use of steroids. (AP via ESPN)
Nuclear program of Iran:
- The White House urges more sanctions on Iran, saying that "selective co-operation" is "not good enough". (BBC)
- The International Atomic Energy Agency reports that Iran is still enriching uranium. (BBC)
The Supreme Court of Canada denies asylum to Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, two United States soldiers who deserted the Iraq War. (BBC)
Iraqi insurgency: The United States Army announces it has killed 25 insurgents in Taji, but the Taji Awakening Council says airstrikes killed 45 pro-U.S. fighters. (BBC)
A Saudi Arabian gang rape victim is sentenced to jail and 200 lashes for being in the car of an unre