2007 Timeline

Wimbledon and other July 2007 events

Swiss professional tennis player and Number one at the ATP Ranking since February 2, 2004, Roger Federer won his fifth Wimbledon Championship on July 8, 2007, and equaled Björn Borg's Open Era record of 5 consecutive Wimbledon singles titles. Federer won Australian Open and US Open three times, while he never won the French Open. Roger Federer is the only tennis player in history who won three different Grand Slams for three times or more and beat Jimmy Connors' record of 160 consecutive weeks as #1 men's player and Steffi Graf's record of 186 weeks as #1 singles player in the world.

Timeline of July 2007 events

July 1
- Portugal took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
- The wife of Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner, Cristina Fernandez announced candidacy for the President of Argentina.

July 2
- A suicide bomber at the Queen of Sheba temple in Marib, Yemen, killed at least 9 people.

July 4
- BBC correspondent Alan Johnston was released by kidnappers in the Gaza Strip after 114 days in captivity.

July 7
- American tennis player Venus Williams won the 2007 Wimbledon Championship (the Women's Singles).
- Live Earth Concerts were held throughout 9 major cities around the world.

July 8
- Swiss tennis player Roger Federer won the 2007 Wimbledon Championship (the Men's Singles).

July 11
- The Pakistani army stormed the Red Mosque in Islamabad which was held by the mosque's militants fro 8 days.
- The former first lady and the widow of Lyndon B. Johnson, Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson died at age 84.

July 13
- American newspaper magnate Conrad Black was convicted of fraud.
- The IAEA reached an agreement with Iran to allow new inspections and safeguards at its key nuclear facilities.

July 14
- North Korea closed the Yongbyon reactor.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that suspended the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE) which limited the number of heavy weapons deployed between the Atlantic Ocean and the Urals mountains.

July 15
- Shimon Peres was formally inaugurated as the President of Israel.
- Brazil won the Copa América 2007 Final.

July 16
- At least 85 people and over 180 were wounded in bomb attacks in Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk.

July 17
- The death sentences on six foreign medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV were commuted to life in prison.
- An independent candidate on Turkish general election Tuncay Seyranlioglu was shot death.
- About 200 people were killed in a plane crash upon landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo.

July 19
- 23 South Korean aid workers were taken hostages by the Taleban rebels in Afghanistan.

July 20
- Bamir Topi was elected President of Albania by the Albanian parliament.

July 21
- Pratibha Patil was elected the first female President of India.
- The final epic novel in J.K. Rowling's bestselling series Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released.

July 22
- Justice and Development Party won the Turkish general elections.

July 23
- The last King (Shah) of Afghanistan, Mohammed Zahir Shah who reigned from 1933 to 1973 died at age of 92.

July 24
- All six Bulgarian medical workers who were imprisoned in Libya were pardoned on their arrival by Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov.

July 25
- The Taleban in Afghanistan said they killed one of the 23 South Korean hostages.

July 27
- French former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was placed under formal investigation over Clearstem affair.

July 29
- The ruling Liberal Democratic Party lost its majority in the upper house after the Japanese House of Councillors election.

July 30
- A second South Korean hostage was killed by the Talebans.