<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[2007 Timeline]]></title><description><![CDATA[Articles]]></description><link>http://www.2007timeline.info/</link><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2007 Timeline]]></copyright><generator>sNews CMS</generator><item><title><![CDATA[2007 : The Year of the Pig]]></title><description><![CDATA[    
  
The Chinese Calendar is known for being cyclical, and it is closely related to the cycle of the moon. For the Chinese, 2007 started around February 18, because this is the first day of the new phase of the moon. According to the Chinese calendar, 2007 was a year which had characteristics that were closely related to fire. Last year was also known as the year of the Pig, and the Pig is the final sign of the zodiac cycle for the Chinese. It will generally be controlled by the element known as water. But fire also played an important role in 2007.
    
According to the Chinese Calendar, while 2007 was a good year to finish projects from the previous year, it was a bad year to start any new projects. Both the Pig and Fire require you to go back, analyze any projects you did in the previous year, and make calibrations to them to make sure you can reach your goals, and get rid of anything which has not been completed. This isn't just confined to business or education, as it can also apply to your personal life as well. Last year was also considered to be an important time to prepare for 2008, which is known as the year of the Rat.
    
During 2007, the calendar would have required you to make detailed preparations for the things you wanted in the future. For entreprenuers and people who own their own businesses, the good news about 2007 from the perspective of the Chinese calendar is that it was a great year for business. The Pig is known for being quite aggressive when it comes to scams and things of this nature, and if you were involved in any type of fraud or scams in 2007, it is said that you will suffer greatly from it. Another attribute of 2007 is that it was the year in which people faced a large number of dilemmas.
    
Perhaps you noticed last year that you were forced to make a number of tough decisions, or you had to make choices between which side to join. The Pig would find favor on those who are able to keep their minds open, who can express themselves to others about the feelings they have. The 2007 year according to the Pig was not a good year to try to take shortcuts, or to hide your feelings from others. Instead, last year was the year in which you would have been rewarded if you picked goals that suited you well.
    
If you followed the rules last year which I listed above, there is a good chance that 2007 was a year of prosperity for you. A number of new opportunities would have likely presented themselves, and if you took advantage of these opportunities, they would have made an imprint on your life for the better, and they would have given you the resources which would have allowed you to make better decisions in 2008.   
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was chosen the Time magazine's 2007 Person of the Year on December 18, 2007. 
Charismatic Russian leader became the acting President on December 31, 1999, succeeding Boris Yeltsin and was 
sworn in as President of Russia following the elections on May 7, 2000. On March 14, 2004, Putin was re-elected 
for a second term with 71 percent of the vote. On February 1, 2007, Putin rejected the speculations over his 
candidacy for the third term and later announced that he would run as first on the list for United Russia and 
might consider becoming Prime Minister of Russia.


    
  Timeline of December 2007 events  
    

  December 1    
- Zhang Zilin from the People's Republic of China won the Miss World.     
  December 2    
- Referendum on a series of far-reaching constitutional changes sought by President Hugo Chavez failed.   
- Vladimir Putin's United Russia won the Russian Parliamentary Elections.     
  December 3    
- The United Nations Climate Change Conference began at Nusa Dua in Bali, Indonesia.    
  December 5    
- 8 people were shot death and 5 more injured in the Westroads Mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska.    
  December 6    
- Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis resigned after the mass protests over his attempted sacking of 
  the anti-corruption chief.     
  December 8    
- The 2007 Africa-EU Summit took place.       
  December 9    
- Rajko Kuzmanovic was elected President of the Bosnian Serb republic.     
  December 10    
- Russian president Vladimir Putin supported candidacy of Dmitry Medvedev for the President of Russia in 2008.    
  December 11    
- Over 60 people, including 11 UN staff, were killed in two bombs explosions near UN office and the Algerian 
  Supreme Court in Algiers, Algeria.     
  December 12    
- Russia formally suspended the CFE treaty.     
  December 13    
- European Union leaders signed the Treaty of Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal.     
  December 15    
- President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf lifted the state of emergency.    
  December 16    
- Ak-Zhol or Ak-Zhol Eldik Partiyasy ("Bright Path Popular Party") won the Kyrgyzstani Parliamentary Elections.    
  December 17    
- Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the possibility of becoming a future prime minister.     
  December 18    
- The Ukraine's parliament (Verkhovna Rada) elected Yulia Tymoshenko as the new Ukraine Prime Minister.     
  December 19    
- Russian President Vladimir Putin was chosen the Time magazine's 2007 Person of the Year.    
  December 21    
- The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia joined the 
  Schengen border-free zone.  
- Queen Elizabeth II became the oldest-ever Monarch of the United Kingdom.     
  December 24    
- The Nepalese government announced the abolishment of monarchy and establishment of republic.       
  December 25    
- A suspension bridge collapsed near Nepalgunj, Nepal, killing at least 15 people.   
- At least 80 people were killed or reported missing after floods triggered landslides in the central Java 
  region of Indonesia.    
  December 26    
- A court in Chad has sentenced six French aid workers to eight years of hard labour for attempted child-kidnapping.     
  December 27    
- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. At least 20 others were killed by a suicide bomber.     
  December 28    
- Six French aid workers who were jailed in Chad arrived in France.     
  December 30    
- Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son Bilawal took over the leadership of People's Party.     
  December 31    
- Over 100 people were killed in Kenya due to riots over the results of the Kenyan Presidential Elections.   
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President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf stood down as the head of the Pakistan Army on November 28, 2007. Musharraf 
came to power in 1999 by effecting a military coup d'état and he has been since actively supported then by western 
countries including the United States and the United Kingdom. In 2001 he appointed himself to the office of President 
of Pakistan and in aim to legitimize his presidency and assure its continuance after the approaching restoration of 
democracy, he held a referendum on April 30, 2002 to extend his term to five years. After surviving a two assassination 
attempt in December 2003, Musharraf won a confidence vote in the Electoral College of Pakistan, consisting of both 
houses of Parliament and the four provincial assemblies on January 1, 2004 and was as a result of this vote re-elected 
as the President of Pakistan. On October 6, 2007, he won an indirect presidential election by an overwhelming majority. 
However, on November 3, 2007, before a bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan was to decide on a petition challenging 
the constitutional validity of his re-election as president, Musharraf suspended the constitution, jailed several 
justices and lawyers of the supreme court and declared the state of emergency. On November 22, 2007, Pakistan's Supreme 
Court dismissed a legal challenge against his re-election and on November 28, 2007, following the pressure for him 
to give up the army Pervez Musharraf stood down as the Chief of the Army Stuff and named Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Kayani as the 
head of the Pakistani Army. 


    
  Timeline of November 2007 events  
    

  November 1    
- Prime Minister of Bosnia and Hercegovina Nikola Spiric in protest at efforts by the High Representative and 
  EU Special Representative, Miroslav Lajcak.  
- The southern Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas were hit by the worst flooding in over 50 years.       
  November 2    
- Tamil Tiger political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan was killed in a Sri Lankan air force raid.  
- Several thousand people protested outside parliament in Georgia's capital Tbilisi calling for early elections 
  and for Saakashvili's resignation.    
  November 3    
- Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf declared state of emergency.      
  November 4    
- Chad released three French journalists and four Spanish air hostesses that were arrested on suspicion of 
  child-kidnapping.    
  November 6    
- Over 50 people, including five members of parliament, were killed by a suicide bomber in northern Afghanistan.     
  November 7    
- Mikheil Saakashvili declared state of emergency.   
- 8 people were killed and at least 10 others injured in a shooting at Jokela school in southern Finland.    
  November 8    
- The 8th annual Latin Grammy Awards were held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, US.    
  November 10    
- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency to help fight an oil spill.    
  November 11    
- About 2,000 metric tons of fuel oil leaked near the Black Sea from a Russian oil tanker that split in half after 
  a powerful storm hit the Black Sea. Four other ship sank as well and several more were in trouble.  
- Danilo Türk won the second round of the Slovenian Presidential Elections.     
  November 13    
- Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's coalition won the Danish Parliamentary elections.     
  November 14    
- The British military's Skynet 5B was successfully launched from Europe's Kourou spaceport, in French Guiana.  
- Prime ministers from North and South Korea met for the first time in 15 years in South Korean capital Seoul.     
  November 16    
- Over 3,000 people were killed after Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh.     
  November 17    
- Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo won the Parliamentary Elections in Kosovo. The Serbs boycotted the elections.     
  November 20    
- The UK's HM Revenue and Customs admitted that it misplaced two computer discs which contained the personal details 
  of all families in the United Kingdom with a child under 16.    
  November 22    
- Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge against the recent re-election of President Pervez Musharraf.    
  November 23    
- Pakistan has been suspended from the Commonwealth until President Musharraf gives up military rule.    
  November 24    
- Australian Labor Party won the Australian Federal Elections.    
  November 25    
- Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) won the Croatian Parliamentary Elections.  
- Georgian Mikhail Saakashvili resigned to run in Georgian Presidential Elections in January 2008.     
  November 26    
- Following the deaths of two teenagers whose whose motorcycle collided with a police vehicle broke out riots 
  in the Val-d'Oise department in France. Over 130 policemen were injured and over 70 cars and buildings were 
  burned.    
  November 28    
- President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf stood down as the head of the Pakistan Army.    
  November 29    
- British teacher Gillian Gibbons was jailed for 15 days for allowing children in her class to name a teddy 
  bear Muhammad.  
- A Moscow court sentenced the exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky to six years in jail in absentia after 
  finding him guilty of massive embezzlement.    
- Parties led by Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko - both leaders of the 2004 Orange Revolution - agreed to 
  form a coalition.     
  
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Argentine President Néstor Kirchner's wife, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won the Argentine Presidential Elections 
and became the second female president (after Isabel Martínez de Perón) in Argentina on October 28, 2007, but the 
first to be elected. She won the Presidential Elections in the first round with 45,29% of the vote, followed by 22% 
for Elisa Carrió (candidate for the Civic Coalition) and 16% for former Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna. Christina, 
as the majority of Argentines call her, sworn in on December 10, 2007.  


    
  Timeline of October 2007 events  
     

  October 2     
- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il met in Pyongyang.      
  October 3     
- Founder of Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) and co-founder of Ryanair, Tony Ryan died at age 71.    
- North Korea agreed to shut down its nuclear facilities in Yongbyon until December 31.       
  October 5     
- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf signed the National Reconciliation Ordinance which granted an amnesty to 
  Benazir Bhutto and other political leaders except former premier Nawaz Sharif.   
- Spanish authorities arrested 22 people associated with the banned Batasuna party.      
  October 6     
- US athlete Marion Jones pleaded guilty to lying about her steroid use to US investigators.   
- Pervez Musharraf won the Pakistani Presidential Elections.       
  October 9     
- About 250 people were killed in fighting between the Pakistani army and Islamic militants in North Waziristan.   
- Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics.      
  October 10     
- Gerhard Ertl won the 2007  Nobel Prize in Chemistry.       
  October 12     
- Former US Vice-President Al Gore and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel 
  Peace Prize.      
  October 14     
- Turkish forces bombed Kurdish rebel targets in Northern Iraq without the formal approval of the Turkish Parliament.       
  October 15     
- The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China took place.       
  October 16     
- Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero rejected proposals for a 2008 referendum on Basque County 
  future relationship with Spain.   
- Macedonian and Balkan pop star Toše Proeski died in a car accident at age 26.      
  October 17     
- Turkish Parliament approved the military operations in northern Iraq.       
  October 18     
- The French presidential office announced that Nicolas and Cecile Sarkozy divorced.    
- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto arrived in Pakistan.    
- Over 130 people were killed in a failed attack on the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.       
  October 20     
- South Africa won the Rugby World Cup 2007 final in Stade de France, Paris.
- A series of wildfires began burning across Southern California that destroyed at least 1,500 homes and 
  over 500,000 acres (2,000 km²) of land until the last fire was fully contained on November 9, 2007.       
  October 21     
- Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (CVP/PDC) won the Swiss Federla Elections.    
- Civic Platform led by Donald Tusk won the Polish Parliamentary Elections.    
- Finish Formula One racing driver became the Formula One World Drivers' Champion.      
  October 22     
- Hu Jintao was re-elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's 
  Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission.      
  October 23     
- Space Shuttle Discovery was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.      
  October 25     
- Sudanese human rights lawyer Salih Mahmoud Osman won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.       
  October 26     
- Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was cleared of corruption charges.    
- Apple Inc. released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.      
  October 28     
- Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won the Argentine Presidential Elections and became the first female elected 
  president in Argentina.   
- The Boston Red Sox won the 2007 World Series.      
  October 29     
- Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi resigned.      
- Nine French citizens and the Spanish crew of a chartered plane were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping of over 
  100 children in the eastern town of Abeche, Chad.      
  October 31     
- A bus bomb in the central Russian city of Tolyatti killed 8 and injured over 50 people.     
- 21 were convicted and 7 acquitted for their part in the Madrid bombings in 2004.   ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:13:57 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.2007timeline.info/october/argentine-gets-first-female-president-and-other-october-2007-events/</link><guid>http://www.2007timeline.info/october/argentine-gets-first-female-president-and-other-october-2007-events/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Luciano Pavarotti died and other September 2007 events]]></title><description><![CDATA[      

Italian tenor and one of the most beloved vocal performers, Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71 on September 6, 2007. 
Pavarotti was one of The Three Tenors (next to Plácido Domingo and José Carreras) and was well known for his 
televised concerts and media appearances. He was also noted for his charity concerts "Pavarotti and Friends" annually 
hosted in his home town of Modena in Italy, joining with singers from all parts of the music industry to raise money 
for several UN causes.


    
  Timeline of September 2007 events  
    

  September 2    
- British troops withdrew from the southern Iraqi city of Basra and handed it over to Iraqi control.   
- Danish police clashed with hundreds of rioting youths in Copenhagen.  
- The United States of America won the FIBA Americas Championship 2007.    
  September 3    
- Panama started the works to widen the Panama Canal.     
  September 4    
- At least 25 people were killed and 70 more were wounded killed in two bomb blasts near the town of Rawalpindi, 
  Pakistan.   
- Hurricane Felix hit Northeast Nicaragua, killing over 130 people.      
  September 6    
- Italian opera legend Luciano Pavarotti died at age 71.   
- 19 people were killed and 107 more were wounded in a suicide bombing against a crowd of people waiting for a visit 
  of Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Batna, Algeria.    
  September 8    
- At least 28 were killed and 60 more were wounded in a car bomb attack in Dellys, Algeria.   
- The al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden appeared on a video for the first time since October 2004.   
- Belgian tennis player Justin Henin won the US Open (the Women's Singles).    
  September 9    
- Swiss tennis player Roger Federer won the US Open (the Men's Singles).    
  September 10    
- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan but was promptly sent back into exile 
  in Saudi Arabia.    
  September 12    
- Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and nominated  
  Viktor Zubkov his successor.   
- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigned.     
  September 13    
- FIA stripped McLaren of their points in the 2007 Formula One constructors' championship after the outcome of the 
  "spygate" row.      
  September 14    
- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto announced her return to Pakistan on October 18.     
  September 16    
- At least 88 people were killed in a plane crash in the tourist resort of Phuket in southern Thailand.    
  September 17    
- US President George W. Bush named retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as successor of former US Attorney 
  General, Alberto Gonzales.    
- The governing conservative party of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis won Greece's general election.    
  September 19    
- 7 people, including anti-Syrian Parliament member Antoine Ghanim, were killed in a car bomb attack in Beirut, Lebanon.     
- Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov resigned.     
  September 20    
- US Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns resigned.     
  September 22    
- Chile extradited former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to Peru to face charges of human rights 
  abuse and corruption.    
  September 24    
- Between 30,000 and 100,000 people demonstrated against the military junta's government in Rangoon, Burma.   
- India won the ICC Twenty20 WorldCup.    
  September 25    
- Japan's parliament elected Yasuo Fukuda the new prime minister.    
  September 28    
- Burmese soldiers broke up the anti-government protests.   
- About 15,000 people protested against Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili in Georgia's capital, Tbilisi.    
  September 30    
- The President of the Bosnian Serb republic Milan Jelic died at age 51.   
- The Party of Regions of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych won the Ukrainian Parliamentary Elections but the 
  two Orange bloc parties won the majority.   ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:37:16 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.2007timeline.info/september/luciano-pavarotti-died-and-other-september-2007-events/</link><guid>http://www.2007timeline.info/september/luciano-pavarotti-died-and-other-september-2007-events/</guid></item></channel></rss>