WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 2007
Find out what all happened January to December 2007

Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion. (29. September 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)

Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia. (27. April 2007)

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

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the fastest-selling novel ever is published. It sold 15 million copies in the first 24 hours of its release. (21. July 2007)

Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping. (3. August 2007)

Terrorist bombs explode on the Samjhauta Express in Panipat, Haryana, India, killing 68 people. (18. February 2007)

An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. (15. August 2007)

Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president. (18. September 2007)

Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. (12. May 2007)

15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President. (4. April 2007)

The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history. (22. August 2007)

Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea. (24. February 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)

At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. (14. April 2007)

Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894. (25. April 2007)

A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339. (3. February 2007)

Tony Blair resigns as British Prime Minister, a position he had held since 1997. (27. June 2007)

NASA launches the Dawn probe. (27. September 2007)

An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889. (8. August 2007)