September 2007 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 2007 American professional cyclist Dave Zabriski won his National Time Trial Championship in Greenville, SC by 2 seconds.
• 02 Sep 2007 The spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that China would report its military expenditures to UN Register of Conventional Arms.
• 03 Sep 2007 Steve Fossett takes off at a private airport in western Nevada. The plane then vanishes.
• 04 Sep 2007 Priests in Moscow chanted prayers to honor the 12th Main Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry, which is responsible in part for the storage and maintenance Russia's nuclear arsenal.
• 05 Sep 2007 Three terrorists believed to be part of Al-Qaeda have been arrested in Germany. They are accused of planning attacks against the Frankfurt International Airport and US military installations.
• 06 Sep 2007 Operation Orchard: Israeli planes strike suspected nuclear sites in Syria.
• 07 Sep 2007 2007 Lebanon conflict: After ending a three-month conflict in Nahr el-Bared with Fatah al-Islam militants, the Lebanese Army declared victory.
• 08 Sep 2007 Ang Lee's spy thriller Lust, Caution'' won the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival.
• 09 Sep 2007 Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega is now serving 15 years in Miami, Florida Prison. He was convicted of drug trafficking.
• 10 Sep 2007 After seven years of exile, Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, returns to Pakistan following a military coup that took place in October 1999.
• 11 Sep 2007 Bruce Golding is elected Prime Minister of Jamaica after his victory in the parliamentary elections.
• 12 Sep 2007 The US dollar has fallen to a new low against the euro: $1.39
• 13 Sep 2007 The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
• 14 Sep 2007 Launch of the SELENE spacecraft. JAXA called it the "largest lunar mission since Apollo."
• 15 Sep 2007 Wildfires cause evacuation of thousands in San Bernardino and San Diego Counties, California.
• 16 Sep 2007 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 with 128 passengers and crew crashes in Thailand, killing 89 people.
• 17 Sep 2007 AOL, the former largest ISP in America, has officially announced plans to refocus and reorient the company as an advertising company. The corporate headquarters will be relocated from Dulles Virginia to New York, New York.
• 18 Sep 2007 To ease the continuing panic in financial markets caused by the subprime mortgage crisis, the Federal Reserve reduced interest rates in the U.S.A by half a percentage point (0.5%) for the first time in six years.
• 19 Sep 2007 After Driss Jettou's resignation, King Mohammed VI appointed Abbas El Fassi, the leader of the Istiqlal Party as Prime Minister of Morocco.
• 20 Sep 2007 The Native American $1 Coin Act has been signed into law.
• 21 Sep 2007 For the first time since 1976, the Canadian dollar has reached parity with the American currency.
• 22 Sep 2007 Turkey's Foreign Minister Ali Babacan condemned US support for the PKK terrorist organization, which is behind attacks against Turkish forces.
• 23 Sep 2007 General Motors must avoid a strike by the United Automobile Workers by Monday 11am.
• 24 Sep 2007 One Laptop Per Child launches the Give 1 Get 1 marketing campaign. A buyer can purchase two XO computers for US$399 and receive one in 2008; the other will be sent to a child living in Cambodia, Rwanda or Afghanistan.
• 25 Sep 2007 Microsoft launches Halo 3 on Xbox 360 in America.
• 26 Sep 2007 Excessive levels of lead paint have led to the recall of more than half a million toys made in China, including 269,000 RC2 Corp's "Thomas Friends" toy trains.
• 27 Sep 2007 Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index is a survey that ranks 180 countries.
• 28 Sep 2007 In Georgia's capital Tbilisi, opposition supporters gather to demonstrate against the government. This is the largest protest in Georgia since 2003.
• 29 Sep 2007 Calder Hall is destroyed in controlled explosion.
• 30 Sep 2007 General Sonthi Boonyaratglin was the one who overthrew Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra during the 2006 Thai coup. He resigned from his position as head of Council for National Security.

Famous Birthday

• Ruby Henson

  Welsh noted family member, the first child of singer Charlotte Church and Church's boyfriend, rugby star Gavin Henson.

Famous Deaths

• Robert Jordan

  author of the Wheel of Time series (Born 1948).

• D James Kennedy

  American televangelist (Born 1930).

• Hallgeir Brenden

  Norwegian Olympic gold medalist (Born 1929).

• Kenji Nagai

  Japanese photojournalist (Born 1957).

• Franz-Benno Delonge

  German game designer (Born 1957).

• Rajae Belmlih

  Moroccan singer (Born 1962).

• Carter Albrecht

  American keyboardist and guitarist (Edie Brickell & New Bohemians) (Born 1973).

• Steve Ryan

  American actor (Born 1947).

• Thomas Hansen

  Norwegian musician (Born 1976).

• Percy Rodrigues

  Canadian actor (Born 1918).

• Ramon Cardemil

  Chilean huaso (Born 1917).

• Vasyl Kuk

  Ukrainian nationalist, last leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Born 1913).

• Ted Stepien

  former basketball team owner (Born 1925).

• Jean Seguy

  French sociologist (Born 1925).

• Sir Jeremy Moore

  British Army commander (Born 1928).

• Pepsi Tate

  Welsh bassist (tigertailz) (Born 1965).

• Bodinho

  Brazilian footballer (Born 1928).

• Rene Desmaison

  French mountaineer (Born 1930).

• Jacques Martin

  French television host and producer (Born 1933).

• Johnny Gavin

  Irish footballer (Born 1928).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
2. Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
3. Soulja Boy Tell'em - Crank That (Soulja Boy)
4. Kanye West - Stronger
5. Timbaland - The Way I Are

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
2. Sugababes - About You Now
3. Kanye West - Stronger
4. Ida Corr vs Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Think About It
5. Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah