What Happened In January 2007 In History

Historical Events for January, 2007

• 1st » Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Slovenia joins Eurozone.
• 1st » Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
• 4th » The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives or Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
• 9th » Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first IPhone (original) or iPhone.
• 10th » A 2007 Guinean general strike named general strike begins in Guinea in an eventually successful attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
• 12th » Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches Apsis named perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years.
• 15th » Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
• 17th » The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
• 20th » A three-man team, using only kite skiing skis and kites, completes a convert 1093 mi km adj=on trek to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1958 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.
• 22nd » At least 88 people are killed when 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings e.g two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
• 31st » 31 January 2007 Birmingham raid e.g Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.

Famous Deaths for January 2007

• 1st » Leon Davidson, American engineer and scientist (b. 1922)
• 1st » Roland Levinsky, South African scientist (b. 1943)
• 1st » Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
• 2nd » Garry Betty, American businessman (b. 1957)
• 2nd » Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American historian (b. 1941)
• 2nd » Mauno Jokipii, Finnish academic and author (b. 1924)
• 2nd » Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician (b. 1911)
• 2nd » Paek Nam-sun, North Korean politician (b. 1929)
• 2nd » A. Richard Newton, Australian-American engineer and academic (b. 1951)
• 2nd » David Perkins (geneticist) known as David Perkins, American geneticist (b. 1919)
• 2nd » Robert C. Solomon, American scholar (b. 1942)
• 3rd » János Fürst, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1935)
• 3rd » Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (b. 1937)
• 3rd » Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
• 3rd » William Verity, Jr., American businessman (b. 1917)
• 3rd » Cecil Walker, Irish politician (b. 1924)
• 4th » Gren, Welsh cartoonist (b. 1934)
• 4th » Ben Gannon (producer) known as Ben Gannon, Australian film and television producer (b. 1952)
• 4th » Helen Hill, American director and producer (b. 1970)
• 4th » Lewis Hodges, English pilot (b. 1918)
• 4th » Steve Krantz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1923)
• 4th » Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1949)
• 4th » Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
• 4th » Jan Schröder, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
• 4th » Marais Viljoen, South African politician, 5th State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
• 4th » Osman Waqialla, Sudanese calligrapher (b. 1925)
• 5th » Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (b. 1910)
• 5th » Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
• 6th » Mario Danelo, American football player (b. 1985)
• 6th » Sneaky Pete Kleinow, American guitarist and songwriter (The Flying Burrito Brothers) (b. 1934)
• 6th » Roberta Wohlstetter, American historian (b. 1912)
• 7th » Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (b. 1957)
• 7th » Magnus Magnusson, Icelandic-Scottish journalist (b. 1929)
• 8th » Jane Bolin, American judge (b. 1908)
• 8th » Arthur Cockfield, Baron Cockfield, English politician (b. 1916)
• 8th » Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1922)
• 8th » David Ervine, Irish politician (b. 1953)
• 8th » Iwao Takamoto, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1925)
• 9th » Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
• 9th » Jean-Pierre Vernant, French anthropologist and historian (b. 1914)
• 10th » Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)
• 10th » Bradford Washburn, American explorer, photographer, and cartographer (b. 1910)
• 12th » Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• 12th » James Killen, Australian politician (b. 1925)
• 13th » Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (Steps Ahead) (b. 1949)
• 13th » Danny Oakes, American race car driver (b. 1911)
• 14th » Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
• 14th » Barbara Kelly, Canadian-English actress (b. 1924)
• 14th » Robert Noortman, Dutch art dealer (b. 1946)
• 14th » Vassilis Photopoulos, Greek painter, director, and set designer (b. 1934)
• 15th » Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Iraqi judge (b. 1945)
• 15th » Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Iraqi intelligence officer (b. 1951)
• 15th » James Hillier, Canadian-American scientist, inventor of electron microscope (b. 1915)
• 15th » Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino diplomat (b. 1905)
• 15th » David Vanole, American soccer player (b. 1963)
• 16th » Ron Carey (actor) e.g Ron Carey, American actor (b. 1935)
• 16th » Benny Parsons, American race car driver and sportscaster (b. 1941)
• 17th » Art Buchwald, American journalist (b. 1925)
• 17th » Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
• 18th » Brent Liles, American bass player (Agent Orange (band) known as Agent Orange and Social Distortion) (b. 1963)
• 19th » Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
• 19th » Hrant Dink, Turkish-Armenian journalist (b. 1954)
• 19th » Denny Doherty, Canadian singer-songwriter (The Mamas & the Papas and The Halifax III) (b. 1940)
• 19th » Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
• 21st » U;Nee, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (b. 1981)
• 21st » Maria Cioncan, Romanian runner (b. 1977)
• 22nd » Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer (b. 1962)
• 22nd » Ngo Quang Truong, Vietnamese general (b. 1929)
• 22nd » Abbé Pierre, French priest (b. 1912)
• 23rd » Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian sociologist and politician (b. 1928)
• 23rd » E. Howard Hunt, American CIA officer (b. 1918)
• 23rd » Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1932)
• 23rd » Tatiana Mamaki, Greek dancer and choreographer (b. 1921)
• 24th » Krystyna Feldman, Polish actress (b. 1916)
• 24th » Guadalupe Larriva, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1956)
• 24th » Emiliano Mercado del Toro, Puerto Rican soldier (b. 1891)
• 26th » Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 27th » Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
• 27th » Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese decathlete (b. 1933)
• 27th » Alberta Davis, American super-centenarian ( b. 1881)
• 28th » Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (b. 1929)
• 28th » Robert Drinan, American priest and politician (b. 1920)
• 28th » Beatrice Hsu, Taiwanese actress (b. 1978)
• 28th » Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (b. 1963)
• 28th » Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938)
• 28th » Teala Loring, American actress (b. 1922)
• 29th » Barbaro, American race horse (b. 2003)
• 29th » Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi cult leader (b. 1970)
• 30th » Nikos Kourkoulos, Greek actor (b. 1934)
• 30th » Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 31st » Kirka, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
• 31st » Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
• 31st » Molly Ivins, American journalist and author (b. 1944)
• 31st » Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1957)
• 31st » Olevi Kull, Estonian ecologist and academic (b. 1955)
• 31st » Adelaide Tambo, South African activist (b. 1929)

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