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| 2007 |
| | | US Senator John McCain launches his 2008 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Democratic US Senator Barrack Obama announces to a cheering crowd in Illinois that he is joining the 2008 presidential race | |
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| 2007 |
| | | The Scottish National Party wins Scotland's election, becoming for the first time the party with the widest support in Scotland | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Nicolas Sarkozy defeats Ségolène Royal to become President of the French Republic | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Devolved government returns to Northern Ireland, with Ian Paisley as first minister and Martin McGuinness as his deputy | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Tony Blair gives June 27 as the date for his promised resignation as British prime minister | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party, takes over as first minister of Scotland | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Bertie Ahern and the Fianna Fáil win their third successive general election victory in Ireland | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Apple's iPhone goes on sale in the USA and 270,000 are sold in the first thirty hours | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Pratibha Patil is elected President of India, the first woman to hold the post | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Barry Bonds breaks baseball's previous record, hitting his 756th home run | |
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| 2007 |
| | | The civil rights group Reporters Without Borders demands improvement in civil rights abuses and censorship in China before the Beijing Olympics | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party and prime minister of the United Kingdom | |
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| 2007 |
| | | The Burmese government removes fuel subsidies, causing massive price rises for consumers | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Demonstrations begin in Burma against the recent increase in fuel prices | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Large numbers of monks in Burma march in support of the escalating nation-wide demonstrations against the government | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Burmese security forces raid the monasteries and begin beating and arresting monks to terrify the population into submission | |
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| 2007 |
| | | After continuing daily escalation of the protest in Burma, nation-wide, the junta order arrests and military intervention | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Burmese monasteries are raided, and monks are arrested and taken away all over the country | |
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| 2007 |
| | | The Burma junta seals the country off by blocking all internet access | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Ibrahim Gambari, a United Nations envoy, arrives in Rangoon | |
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| 2007 |
| | | The streets of Rangoon are virtually empty, with crowds dispersed by fear during the day and by curfew at night | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Ibrahim Gambari is allowed to visit Aung San Suu Kyi at her residence, and has another meeting on October 2 | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Estimates of the number of deaths in the suppression of the Burmese uprising range from a few hundred to several thousand | |
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| 2007 |
| | | The Chilean Supreme Court grants the Peruvian government's request for the extradition of Alberto Fujimori to Peru | |
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| 2007 |
| | | After eight years abroad, Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan to contest a coming election | |
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| 2007 |
| | | On the evening of Benazir Bhutto's return suicide bombers kill 136 of her supporters, who are lining the route, but fail to kill her | |
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| 2007 |
| | | The first passenger flight on the massive Airbus A380 goes from Singapore to Sydney, with Singapore Airlines | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner wins the presidential election in Argentina, becoming the first woman to do so | |
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| 2005 |
| | | Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest nearly 20 years after winning Burma' only free election | |
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| 2007 |
| | | The Labor Party, led by Kevin Rudd, wins the federal election in Australia, defeating John Howard's Liberal Party | |
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| 2007 |
| | | President Musharraf resigns as head of the Pakistan army, and is succeeded by General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani | |
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| 2007 |
| | | European leaders sign the Treaty of Lisbon, an attempt to achieve administrative reforms similar to those of the previously rejected Constitution | |
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| 2007 |
| | | Jacob Zuma is elected president of the African National Congress in South Africa, in place of Thabo Mbeki | |
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