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July 6, 2007 (2007-07-06) (Friday) edit history watch The 6th United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio rejects a lawsuit against George W. Bush's domestic wiretapping program, saying that the plaintiffs did not have the right to sue. (CNET News) Newly declassified French government documents show that as President François Mitterrand knowingly supported the Rwandan Genocide because he believed it would limit "Anglo-Saxon influence." (The Independent) Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdullah is charged for his alleged involvement in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack. (BBC) Australian authorities increase security as the interrogation of Dr. Mohamed Haneef over his possible involvement in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack and the 2007 London car bombs incidents continues. The Australian Federal Police conducts raids on two hospitals in Perth, Western Australia. (Reuters) (AP via the Houston Chronicle) The No.1 Intermediate Court in Beijing sentences former State Food and Drug Administration chief Cao Wenzhuang to death with a two-year reprieve on charges of corruption. (NYT) An investigation concludes that an explosion in Tianshifu, China that killed 25 was caused by improperly stored explosives. (Wikinews)
This will be connected to science as the site is developed. Science including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth science, and biology will be useful.
2 July. Venus and Saturn were in conjunction, separation 46 arcsecs.
5 July Scientists announced the discovery of a new species of cephalopod, dubbed 'octosquid', found off the coast of Hawaii.
Personal studies including the human body, psychology, and biography will be useful.
Anthropology including social foundations, demography, physical anthropology, human ecology, human geography, and particular groups may be useful.
There will be connections to material culture, conceptual culture, and behavioral culture.
4 July. Sochi was selected as the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics. It was announced during the 119th International Olympic Committee Session in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Sochi was selected over Pyeongchang, and Salzburg.
7 July. Live Earth Concerts were held throughout 9 major cities around the world.
8 July. Boeing launched the new Boeing 787.
11 July. The ninth All Africa Games kick off in Algiers, Algeria
18 July. Nelson Mandela convened a group of world leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems as he turned 89. Members of the group include Graça Machel, Desmond Tutu, Muhammad Yunus, Jimmy Carter, Mary Robinson, Li Zhaoxing, and Kofi Annan.
19 July. Ol Doinyo Lengai mountain erupted, bringing a stop to the daily week long tremors experienced in Nairobi and Northern Tanzania. No deaths were reported.
Families, education, and economics are significant. Government including law, government activity, government structure, and particular governments has the most prominent events. Religion including religious beliefs, practice, religious organization, and particular religions is significant, though events are not as numerous as for other areas.
1 July. The African Union met in Accra, Ghana, for a summit with attention focussed on a proposal by Muammar al-Gaddafi of Libya for a pan-African government.
1 July Alison Brimelow became President of the European Patent Office.
2 July The Carlyle Group offered somewhere between £4 billion and £5 billion for the purchase of heavily-indebted Virgin Media.
2 July. The United States accused Iran of using Hezbollah to train Shia militants in Iraq. The Iranian Defence Minister had earlier called the US the "biggest sponsor of terrorism" in the world.
Social structure and change including social structure, social types, and social change can be connected to this period. Communities such as Tokyo will be connected to particular peoples.
These are being developed to include more nations [such as Mexico, The Philippines]
4 July The International Olympic Committee elected Sochi as the host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics during its session in Guatemala City.
These will include [Japan,].
1 July. Avraham Hirschson resigned as the Finance Minister of Israel as an investigation into alleged fraud and embezzlement continued.
2 July. Eight people died in a car bomb explosion at a tourist site in Yemen.
2 July The trial over the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink opened in Istanbul, Turkey. (BBC)
3 July. United States counterterrorism experts say some of the men arrested in connection to terror plots in the United Kingdom had links to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
4 July Ayman al-Zawahri, the second in charge of Al Qaeda, issued a video calling for further jihad and calling for the overthrow of "corrupt" governments in the Middle East.
4 July Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said the government is open to peace negotiations with Israel without preconditions.
4 July. BBC reporter Alan Johnston, held captive in Gaza for nearly four months, was released.
4 July. War in Afghanistan: Six Canadian soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the Panjwaii district.
5 July. Bahrain will no longer participate in the boycott of Israel.
5 July. A study at the University of Jordan concluded that the country's economic problems were not a result of the 750,000 Iraqi refugees who have sought sanctuary there. Iraqi refugees now comprise over 10% of the Jordanian population.
5 July. On the 25th anniversary of their captivity, the Iranian government announced that Iranian diplomats Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi, Ahmad Motevasselian, Kazem Akhavan and Taghi Rastegar Moghaddam were still alive and being held in Israeli jails. The men were captured in 1982 in Lebanon.
22 July. Parliamentary elections took place in Turkey.
29 July. Iraq won its first Asian Cup football championship, beating Saudi Arabia 1-0.
There are connections to South Asia, including events in Bangladesh.
3 July. The British government announced it would designate and ban Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh as terrorist organizations.
5 July. Armed residents of the Indian state of Nagaland burned down villages in the neighbouring state of Assam.
19 July. Prathiba Patil was elected as the first female President of India.
3 July. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said she would return to Pakistan and was considering contesting the next presidential election.
3 July. Lal Masjid clashes: At least seven people have been killed in clashes between security forces and militant students at a mosque in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
4 July Over 700 students surrendered at a mosque in Islamabad after being surrounded by Pakistani security forces.
5 July. Pakistani forces demolished the front walls of the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad.
Central Asian peoples such as are found in parts of China and Russia are of interest.
4 July A power blackout hit eastern Georgia, leaving 2.5m people without electricity and briefly stranding a thousand on the Tbilisi Metro.
Oriental peoples including China willl be considered.
1 July. Chinese archaeologists found a hidden underground chamber within the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.
1 July Hong Kong celebrated 10 years of Chinese rule.
3 July. Japan's Minister for Defense Fumio Kyuma resigned over comments he made about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the weekend.
4 July. Twelve defendants involved in the Chinese slave scandal were charged for illegal detention and murder.
4 July Japan's first female Minister of Defense, Yuriko Koike, was sworn in a day after the resignation of her predecessor, Fumio Kyuma.
4 July A tornado killed 14 people and injured at least 146 near Tianchang, Anhui Province, in eastern China.
5 July. Twenty-five people died and 33 were injured in an explosion in a karaoke bar in Tianshifu in northeast China. (AFP via ABC News Australia)
10 July. Zheng Xiaoyu, head of State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China was executed.
16 July. Earthquake occured in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and release about 300 gallons of radioactive water.
29 July. The ruling coalition of Japan lost its majority in the upper house after the election.
Southeast Asian peoples including those of Indonesia will be useful.
4 July Fretilin won more votes than any other party in the East Timorese election with 29 per cent of the vote but has to form a coalition with other parties to form a government.
7 July - 29 July. The Asian Cup 2007 Football (Soccer) tournament began, taking place in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
This includes, for instance, peoples of Russia
1 July. A law went into effect lowering the voting age in Austria from 18 to 16 in federal elections.
1 July. Russia was composed of 85 federal subjects instead of 86 as Koryakia was merged into the Kamchatka Oblast per a 2005 referendum.
5 July. A Belgian court sentenced former Rwandan army major Bernard Ntuyahaga to twenty years in jail for the murder of 10 Belgian Army peacekeepers and an undetermined number of civilians in the Rwandan genocide.
5 July. Russia has officially declined a request by the UK to extradite Andrei Lugovoi for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Russia's constitution bars extradition of its citizens.
14 July. Following a presidential decree, Russia withdrew from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
Anglic peoples including those in the United States are being considered.
1 July. Smoking in public and work places was banned in England.
1 July. Smoking banned in pubs and clubs in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia.
1 July. The Concert for Diana occured at the new Wembley Stadium on what would have been Princess Diana's 46th birthday.
1 July. Police conducted a controlled explosion of a suspicious car in a carpark of the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, where two suspects in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack were being held.
1 July. Authorities evacuated part of Heathrow Airport while they investigate a suspect package.
1 July. An evacuation was made of the American Airlines terminal of JFK airport because of a suspicious package. The package was found at 10:20 AM local time, and bomb squad was sent to the scene. The package turned out to be carrying cologne, so the terminal was cleared and operations returned to normal within an hour.
1 July. The Australian government upgraded its travel alert for the United Kingdom following the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack and the 2007 London car bombs discovery.
1 July Canada celebrated its 140th anniversary. Canada Day marks the creation of the Dominion of Canada through the British North America Act on July 1, 1867.
2 July Police of the Irish Garda Síochána found over 1.5 tonnes of cocaine worth over €105 million off the coast of West Cork after a small ship sank - the largest cocaine seizure in the history of Ireland. The naval diving squad were continuing the search, as experts believe more of the drug is still in the sea.
2 July U.S. President George W. Bush commuted Scooter Libby's prison sentence with a Grant of Executive Clemency for his role in the Plame Affair.
2 July U.S. President George W. Bush held talks with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Kennebunkport, Maine discussing missile defense and Iran.
2 July. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas K. Mooney, the military attaché at the United States Embassy was found dead in western Cyprus.
3 July. United States counterterrorism experts say some of the men arrested in connection to terror plots in the United Kingdom had links to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
3 July. The British government will designate and ban Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh as terrorist organizations.
2 July Wesfarmers bought Coles Group for $A22 billion in Australia's biggest corporate deal.
2 July British detectives continued the hunt for suspects in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack and the 2007 London car bombs plot. Two doctors were among the seven people currently in custody in the UK in connection with the attacks with another person held in Brisbane, Queensland.
2 July Corporal Bill Henry "Willie" Apiata of the Special Air Service of New Zealand was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery under fire in Afghanistan in 2004.
3 July. Alinghi beat Emirates Team New Zealand in the final race of the 2007 America's Cup, winning the regatta 5-2.
4 July. The 50-star U.S. flag replaced the 48-star flag, which flew from 1912 to 1959, as the longest-flying American flag.
4 July Investigators found a suicide note from the two men accused of involvement in the 2007 Glasgow International Airport attack.
4 July The terror threat level in the United Kingdom was reduced from critical to severe.
5 July A gunman opened fire at the New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, wounding three before being captured.
5 July. An armed man held several people hostage at a bank in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil. The situation was resolved without injury.
5 July Two died and seven were seriously injured when a small plane crashed after missing the runway at Aerfort na Minna, in County Galway, Ireland.
5 July. 12 boats capsized during a junior regatta in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland, on the Irish Sea, with 120 children swept out to sea. All had been rescued, according to the Irish Coast Guard, although 15 had been brought to hospital.
5 July. Eleven people were injured when a staircase collapses at the Natural History Museum in Dublin.
5 July. Eleven people were injured after a London Underground train derailed, leaving hundreds of passengers trapped in an east London tunnel.
7 July. Venus Williams won the Women's Singles, at Wimbledon for a fourth time.
7 July - 29 July. The 2007 Tour de France began, with the grand départ being from London.
8 July. Roger Federer won the Men's Singles, at Wimbledon for a fifth time in a row.
10 July. The American League defeated the National League 5-4 in the 2007 MLB All-Star Game in San Francisco, the AL's 10th straight All-Star Game victory (excluding the 2002 tie). Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners hit the first inside the park home run in the history of the All-Star Game.
10 July. A Cessna 310R twin-engine airplane crashes into two homes in Sanford, Florida, killing three adults and two children.
12 July. Queen Elizabeth II visited the world's largest Commonwealth war grave in Ypres, Belgium to pay respects to fallen soldiers of the Battle of Passchendaele.
16 July. Britain expelled four Russian diplomats in response to a refusal by the Russians to extradite Andrei Ludovoi, the suspect behind the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko in London.
18 July. Atlanta Falcons star quarterback Michael Vick was indicted on Federal dogfighting charges.
19 July. Russia expelled four British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of four of Russia's diplomats. Russia also refused to cooperate with Britain over the war on terror.
18 July. At the height of rush hour in New York City a major steam pipe burst, releasing millions of gallons of boiling water and super heated steam. Only one fatality occurred; a pedestrian who went into cardiac arrest.
21 July. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney served as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush underwent a colonoscopy procedure.
15 July. In Tacoma, Washington, the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened to traffic, making it the longest twin suspension bridge in the world.
22 July. Floods caused chaos through wide areas of Britain, especially the counties of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire, leaving hundreds homeless and thousands of vehicles stranded on major roads.
23 July. Comedian Drew Carey announced that he's succeeding Bob Barker as host of The Price is Right effective at the start of the show's 36th year on CBS.
26 July. Atlanta Falcons star quarterback Michael Vick was arraigned on Federal dogfighting charges.
27 July. Two television news helicopters collided in midair while covering a police chase in Phoenix, Arizona, killing both pilots and two photojournalists
30 July. New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited U.S. President George W. Bush for the first time as Prime Minister
. Latin peoples including those of Brazil can be examined.
1 July. Portugal took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Germany.
1 July. A helicopter crash in the Raveau forest near the town La Charité-sur-Loire in central France killed three people involved in the French Grand Prix and injures two.
2 July Brahim Déby, heir apparent to President Idriss Déby of Chad, was murdered in Paris, France.
4 July A landslide buried a bus carrying at least 40 people in mountains near Tehuacán in the Mexican state of Puebla.
5 July A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hit the southern state of Chiapas in Mexico.
5 July. Nine people were killed at Culiacán International Airport in the Mexican state of Sinaloa as a cargo aircraft failed to take off and careened across a roadway, hitting several vehicles and business premises.
9 July. While celebrating Argentinean Independence Day, snow fell in Buenos Aires for the first time in almost one hundred years.
13 July. The 15th Pan Am Games opens in Rio de Janeiro.
15 July. Brazil defeated Argentina 3-0 in the Copa América 2007 Final.
16 July. Radio Caracas TV resumed broadcasting via cable and satellite.
17 July. TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 overran the runway of Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport, crossing a major roadway during rush hour, crashing into a warehouse and exploding, killing all 186 on board plus some people on the ground and in the building.
African peoples including those of Nigeria have fewer events connected to them.
2 July Brahim Déby, heir apparent to President Idriss Déby of Chad, was murdered in Paris, France.
3 July. Torrential rains caused the onset of the 2007 Sudan floods, the worst in the Sudan's history.
3 July. Former President of Liberia Charles Taylor made a surprise appearance at his trial for military atrocities in The Hague.
3 July. Ghana redenominated Ghanaian cedi. The new currency started exchanging at GH¢ 0.92 to the US dollar, the highest valued African currency.
4 July The 9th summit of the Assembly of the African Union, which lasted for 3 days, ended in Accra, Ghana.
5 July The Nigerian kidnappers of three-year-old British toddler Margaret Hill threatened to kill her, unless her father, Port Harcourt bar owner Mike Hill, took her place.
5 July. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions voted to strike for higher wages as inflation in Zimbabwe rose above 10,000%.
American Indian peoples such as are found in the United States and Brazil are also mostly submerged.
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This is only weakly connected to other areas of history through classical and medieval times. It is also weakly connected to modern history through the 19th century, and to the 20th century through the late 20th century. It is weakly connected to earlier parts of the early 21st century through the early 2000s. This is indirectly connected to 2006. It is connected indirectly to the first quarter of 2007 and is directly preceded by the second quarter, including April, May, and June. |
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It is followed by August and September in the third quarter and is indirectly connected to the fourth quarter. It connects somewhat to the future. |
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