2007 Timeline

Oscars and other events in February 2007

The 79th Academy Awards took place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 25, 2007. The most successful were films: The Departed (4), Pan's Labyrinth (3), An Inconvenient Truth (2), Dreamgirls (2) and Little Miss Sunshine (2). Oscar for the best performance by an actor in a leading role was won by Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland), while the Oscar for the best performance by an actress in a leading role went to Helen Mirren (The Queen). The Oscar for best picture was won by The Departed which also won the Oscar for the achievement for directing (Martin Scorsese).

Timeline of February 2007 events

February 2
- Martti Ahtisaari presented his plan for the final status of Kosovo which involves an internationally-monitored independence for Kosovo. Serbian leaders refused Ahtisaari's proposal.
- A policeman was killed during a violent riot between football fans in the Sicilian town of Catania.

February 4
- The Indianapolis Colts won the Super Bowl XLI at Dolphin Stadium in Miami, USA.
- Germany won the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship in Köln, Germany.

February 5
- Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced candidacy for the President of the United States of America.
- United States Naval officer and a former NASA astronaut, Lisa Nowak was arrested in Orlando, Florida and charged for the attempted kidnapping of U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman.

February 6
- George Gillett and Tom Hicks bought Liverpool F.C.

February 7
- Ehren Watada, the First Lieutenant of the United States Army who deserted to avoid deploying to Iraq was court-martialed.
- An e-mail service provided by Google, Gmail was opened to all as a public beta.

February 8
- American model and actress Anna Nicole Smith died aged 39.
February 9
- Over 10,000 Serbs protested in Kosovska Mitrovica against the Ahtisaari's proposal for the final status of Kosovo.
- British entrepreneur Richard Branson offered a award of $25 million to the individual or group who will find a solution for the stabilization of the Earth’s climate.

February 10
- UN police clashed with Albanians in Pristina protesting against Ahtisaari's plan.

February 11
- Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov was elected President of Turkmenistan.
- American historian Drew Gilpin Faust became the first female Harvard's president.
- The 49th Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, USA.

February 12
- Three bombings on two markets in Baghdad, Iraq killed at least 76 people and wounded 170.
- An armed gunman shot and killed five people in shopping centre in Salt Lake City, Utah, while at least four people were killed after a separate shooting incident in the US city of Philadelphia.

February 13
- North Korea agreed to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon.

February 14
- Serbian parliament has adopted a resolution which rejected a United Nations proposal on the future status of Kosovo.

February 15
- Ramzan Kadyrov was named the Chechen president by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

February 17
- Austrian-born American inventor Robert Adler, best known for invention of the wireless remote control for televisions died aged 93.
- Maurice Papon, French bureaucrat convicted for deporting Jews during the World War II died aged 98.

February 18
- Chinese New Year began (Pig).
- The 56th annual NBA All-Star Game was won by the Western Conference.
- Two car bombs in Baghdad, Iraq killed 60 people and wounded 131.

February 19
- Colombian Minister of Foreign Relations Maria Consuelo Araujo resigned due the arrest of her brother, Senator Alvaro Araujo Castro.
- The French parliament voted to amend the French Constitution to include an explicit ban on the death penalty, which has been outlawed in France since 1981.

February 21
- American computer scientist Francis E. Allen became the first female to win the Turing Award.

February 25
- Chelsea F. C. won the 2007 Football League Cup Final.
- The 79th Academy Awards ceremony was held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, USA.
- Abdoulaye Wade was re-elected President of Senegal.
- The European Space Agency confirmed Rosetta's successful Mars trajectory fly-by.

February 26
- The International Court of Justice cleared Serbia of responsibility for genocide during the Bosnian war.

February 27
- A suicide attack at Bagram Air Base during the visit of Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney killed over 20 people. Cheney was not injured.

February 28
- Cuban President Fidel Castro spoke on the telephone with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez live on Chavez' daily radio programme in Caracas.
- English-born Australian musician and singer of rock band Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Billy Thorpe died aged 60.