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Clockwise from top-left: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a filling station, killing almost 200 people; former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated; 2007 marked the beginning of the Subprime mortgage crisis in the United States; a surge of troops is sent to fight in the Iraq War; the Virginia Tech community mourns the victims of the Virginia Tech shooting, in which 32 students were killed; Google Street View is unveiled to the world; the Treaty of Lisbon is signed by member states of the European Union
Millennium: 3rd millennium
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2007 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar2007
MMVII
Ab urbe condita2760
Armenian calendar1456
ԹՎ ՌՆԾԶ
Assyrian calendar6757
Baháʼí calendar163–164
Balinese saka calendar1928–1929
Bengali calendar1414
Berber calendar2957
British Regnal year55 Eliz. 2 – 56 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2551
Burmese calendar1369
Byzantine calendar7515–7516
Chinese calendar丙戌年 (Fire Dog)
4704 or 4497
    — to —
丁亥年 (Fire Pig)
4705 or 4498
Coptic calendar1723–1724
Discordian calendar3173
Ethiopian calendar1999–2000
Hebrew calendar5767–5768
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2063–2064
 - Shaka Samvat1928–1929
 - Kali Yuga5107–5108
Holocene calendar12007
Igbo calendar1007–1008
Iranian calendar1385–1386
Islamic calendar1427–1428
Japanese calendarHeisei 19
(平成19年)
Javanese calendar1939–1940
Juche calendar96
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4340
Minguo calendarROC 96
民國96年
Nanakshahi calendar539
Thai solar calendar2550
Tibetan calendar阳火狗年
(male Fire-Dog)
2133 or 1752 or 980
    — to —
阴火猪年
(female Fire-Pig)
2134 or 1753 or 981
Unix time1167609600 – 1199145599

2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.

2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year[1] and the International Polar Year.[2]

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  • Mauritania is the last country to criminalise slavery (officially "abolished" in 1981), making the practice illegal everywhere in the world.[54]

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