May 2007 calendar

Events

• 01 May 2007 The Los Angeles May Day melee takes place, and the Los Angeles Police Department's response is controversial to a May Day pro immigrant rally.
• 02 May 2007 Taliban gunmen kill Abdul Sabur Farid (a former Prime Minister and member of the House of Elders) in Afghanistan.
• 03 May 2007 British child Madeleine McCann disappears from an apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
• 04 May 2007 Greensburg, Kansas: Tornado hits, killing at most 12 people and destroying around 90 percent of the town.
• 05 May 2007 All 114 passengers on Kenya Airways Flight 507 are killed when the pilots lose control and the plane crashes in Douala Cameroon.
• 06 May 2007 In the ongoing Palestinian violence, Palestinian extremists attack a UN-run Gaza elementary school. At least one person was killed and at least seven others were injured.
• 07 May 2007 Israeli archaeologists find the tomb of Herod The Great south of Jerusalem.
• 08 May 2007 Six Islamic men from the Republic of Macedonia were arrested by the U.S. Police. They were tipped off by a Mount Laurel resident, NJ, who found their plot to attack Fort Dix in New Jersey and "kill as many Soldiers as possible."
• 09 May 2007 The subtropical storm Andrea forms just off Florida's coast. It is the first subtropical hurricane since Ana in 2003.
• 10 May 2007 The United States House of Representatives approves a $96 billion war expenditure measure that sets benchmarks for Iraqi achievements in return for funding.
• 11 May 2007 Malietoa Tanumafili, Samoa's Head Of State, dies at the ripe old age of 94.
• 12 May 2007 Upon arrival of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Karachi, riots break out in Karachi.
• 13 May 2007 After a 4-2 victory over Finland in the gold-medal game in Moscow (Russia), Team Canada won the 2007 IIHF World Hockey Championship.
• 14 May 2007 Hubbardton, Vermont, USA, is likely to be shaken by a meteor.
• 15 May 2007 Space Shuttle "Atlantis" rolls out to launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to prepare for the STS-117 mission. This is the second rollout for the mission. ''Atlantis’'’s External Tank was damaged in a hailstorm on February 26th. The shuttle was subsequently rolled back to Vehicle Assembly Building to be repaired.
• 16 May 2007 Recognizing the importance of multilingualism in promoting unity in diversity, international understanding, and mutual respect, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2008 International Year of Languages.
• 17 May 2007 In a test run agreed between the governments, trains from North Korea and South Korea crossed the 38th Parallel. This marks the first crossing of the Demilitarized Zone by trains since 1953.
• 18 May 2007 Six people are killed and 50 injured by a bomb that was planted in Juliaca, Peru's market place.
• 19 May 2007 In a sniper attack, three people were killed and two others were injured in Moscow, Idaho, United States.
• 20 May 2007 TPG Capital, L.P., and Goldman Sachs leveraged buyout acquire Alltel, a US mobile phone provider.
• 21 May 2007 2007 Israel-Gaza Conflict: Palestinian militants in Gaza launch 13 Qassam missiles into Israel, killing 1 woman and injuring many others.
• 22 May 2007 Premier Gary Doer, from the Canadian province Manitoba, secures a third consecutive NDP majority government at the general election.
• 23 May 2007 Three US soldiers captured in Iraq are found dead after a lengthy manhunt that occupied almost 3% of US troops.
• 24 May 2007 The United States House of Representatives approves the $US100 billion bill to finance the US war effort against Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq.
• 25 May 2007 The Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall will be equipped with more than 1,000 photovoltaic cells to provide all of its annual electricity needs.
• 26 May 2007 A meteorite blows through a warehouse roof in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA.
• 27 May 2007 Russian gay rights leaders, and foreign dignitaries, are arrested and beaten in Moscow. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov had refused permission to hold a gay pride parade.
• 28 May 2007 Al-Azhar University suspends a lecturer who gave the Breastfeeding fatwa.
• 29 May 2007 Former deputy secretary of State Robert Zoellick is nominated by George W. Bush to be President of the World Bank.
• 30 May 2007 The attack on the CH-47 Chinook helicopter, which was carrying out a NATO mission to Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, kills all seven service personnel (five Americans, one Canadian, and one British). Taliban fighters claimed responsibility for the attack.
• 31 May 2007 The National Assembly of Niger votes against the Government of Prime Minister of Niger Hama Amadou.

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• Dezi Cubiche

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Famous Deaths

• Jean-Claude Brialy

  Aumale, Algeria -- Actor (Circle of Love, Cousins).

• Malietoa Tanumafili II

  Samoan Head of State (O le Ao o le Malo) (Born 1913).

• ?or?e Novkovic

  Croatian songwriter (Born 1943).

• Yahweh ben Yahweh

  American cult leader (Born 1935).

• Edith Rodriguez

  woman refused emergency room treatment for gastrointestinal perforation (Born 1964).

• Mary Goldsmith

  American ceramist (Born 1908).

• Ulo Jogi

  Estonian freedom fighter (Born 1921).

• TK Doraiswamy (also known as Nakulan)

  Indian poet and author (Born 1921).

• Bill Johnston

  Australian cricketer (Born 1922).

• J Edward Oliver

  cartoonist and composer (Born 1942).

• Toshikatsu Matsuoka

  Japanese politician (Born 1945).

• Lois Browne-Evans

  Bermudian politician (Born 1927).

• Gunturu Seshendra Sarma

  Indian poet (Born1927).

• Jerry Falwell

  Pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church and Founder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA (Born 1933).

• Knock Yokoyama

  Japanese comedian and politician (Born 1932).

• Norman Von Nida

  Australian golfer (Born 1914).

• Gretchen Wyler

  American actress and dancer (d. 2007).

• Dwight Wilson

  second-to-last Canadian World War I veteran (Born 1901).

• David Lane

  American white nationalist (Born 1938).

• Octavian Paler

  Romanian journalist and politician (d. 2007).

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