Dr. Who's History Time Warp: 2000's

3/8/16

Year: 2007

The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
Apple Inc CEO, Steve Jobs announces the iPhone.
Author J. K. Rowling finishes the 7th and last Harry Potter novel.
Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark.

A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
Burnley Tunnel catastrophe occurs in Melbourne, Australia. A car crash involving 7 cars, which started a fire in the tunnel and melted some of the vehicles involved so they were unrecognizable. Three people died.
Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 people and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7m wide EF-5 tornado.
The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.

Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvão.
Construction of the Calafat-Vidin Bridge between Romania and Bulgaria begins.
Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments. This is the first time that trains have crossed the Demilitarized Zone since 1953.
Cutty Sark, the last surviving tea clipper, is badly damaged by fire in Greenwich, England.

Jack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for second-degree murder in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk of Oakland County, Michigan.
Smoking is banned from United Kingdom's public places.
USS Carter Hall (LSD-50) engaged pirates after they boarded the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia.
First large scale exhibition of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work in Mexico opens at Palacio de Bellas Artes on the 100th anniversary of her birth.

The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours.
Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces: with the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK. Australia implements a similar ban.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide. 11 million copies sell in 24 hrs
Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president.

News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were no survivors. This was the first known incidence of two news helicopters colliding in mid-air, and the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.
The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.
The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day.
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
"The Big Bang Theory" premieres on CBS.

Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal.
Argentina elects its first female president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands.
Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.
The Mitchell Report is publicly released listing the names of 89 Major League Baseball players that have presumably used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria.
In October, after 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100 in the cheering crowd, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escaped uninjured. In December, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a suicide bomber.

Dr. Who's History Time Warp