Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide. The 2007 Virginia Tech shooting was one of the deadliest…
Tag: 2007
13 September 2007
The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous…
20 December 2007
The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari, are stolen…
23 November 2007
MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands….
14 September 2007
Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years. The Financial Crisis of 2007–2008,…
7 July 2007
The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world. The Live Earth benefit concert was a series of music events…
27 April 2007
Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem. Herod the Great (c. 73 BCE – 4 BCE) was a king of…
12 July 2007
U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to…
7 November 2007
Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.