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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in April 2007.
The US president was George W. Bush (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Tony Blair (Labour), Pope Benedict XVI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on April 2007: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of April 2007?

Events

01 Apr 2007 Second and final day of the 177th Annual General Conference
02 Apr 2007 New Century, an American mortgage lender, files bankruptcy protection.
03 Apr 2007 Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train riding on the LGV Est highspeed line breaks an official world speed record.
04 Apr 2007 Iranian President releases 15 British Royal Navy personnel currently held in Iran.
05 Apr 2007 Georgia creates a Provisional Administrative entity in South Ossetia.
06 Apr 2007 Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys controversy: Monica Goodling (assistant counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales) resigns after refusing testify in front of the Congress.
07 Apr 2007 In Sirnak, Turkish soldiers were killed during a clash between Kurdistan Workers Party forces.
08 Apr 2007 In a message on church bulletin boards, Zimbabwe's Roman Catholic bishops ask President Robert Mugabe to resign or face an "open revolt"
09 Apr 2007 New York Governor Eliot Spitzer signs legislation to change the date for the New York primary elections to February 5, 2008.
10 Apr 2007 A Somali committee has estimated that the death toll from fighting in Mogadishu between Somali Government forces in Somalia and Ethiopian government forces in Somalia is more than 1000.
11 Apr 2007 2007 Algiers bombings. 33 people are killed and 222 more are injured in two bombings that took place in Algiers, Algeria's capital.
12 Apr 2007 CBS fired Don Imus in the USA for controversial comments he made about Rutgers' women's basketball team.
13 Apr 2007 Science has published the genome sequence for the Rhesus Macaque monkey.
14 Apr 2007 Protests against Recep Tayyip Erdoan's possible candidacy for Prime Minister in Turkey have attracted more than 200,000 people to Ankara.
15 Apr 2007 India's Essar group buys Canadian steelmaker Algoma at a price of US$ 1.63 billion
16 Apr 2007 Virginia Tech massacre: This is the most brutal mass killing in American history. Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 people and injures 23, before taking his own life.
17 Apr 2007 Cho Seung-hui, a student, kills 32 people and himself on the grounds of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia USA.
18 Apr 2007 In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court of the United States has upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
19 Apr 2007 With over 500 aircraft, the US and its allies conduct large exercises over South Korea.
20 Apr 2007 Johnson Space Center Shooting: Before killing a man and his hostage, a man using a handgun barsacked himself at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
21 Apr 2007 Chile's 6.2 magnitude earthquake has left at least 10 people missing.
22 Apr 2007 Turkey Christians were tortured and killed and Turkey's government, headed by Recep Tayyip Erdan, an ex-Islamist, expressed concern about the growth of Christian activity in Turkey, VOA reported.
23 Apr 2007 Boris Yeltsin, former Russian President, has died at the age 76.
24 Apr 2007 Kevin Tillman is the brother of Pat Tillman, a former American football player. He claims that the U.S. military conspired to cause his death in testimony before Congress.
25 Apr 2007 Dennis Kucinich, a US Representative (Democrat-Ohio), introduced articles to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.
26 Apr 2007 In the midst of several hours of intense clashes in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, at least 22 people are killed and many more injured.
27 Apr 2007 Estonian authorities have removed the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war monument in Tallinn amid political tension with Russia.
28 Apr 2007 Australia wins the third consecutive Cricket World Cup by beating Sri Lanka in Barbados' 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup finals.
29 Apr 2007 Three people, including the gunman, were killed in a shooting at Ward Parkway shopping center in Kansas City. (AP via Wichita Eagle) (BBC).
30 Apr 2007 The European Union and America sign a new Open Skies Agreement. It will replace the Bermuda II restrictive agreement and take effect on the 30th March 2008.
05 Apr 2007 The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.