{{Events by month|2007|prefix=Portal:Current events/}}
'''[[July]]''' '''[[2007]]''' was the seventh month of that common year. The month, which began on a [[Sunday]], ended on a [[Tuesday]] after 31 days.
'''[[July]]''' '''[[2007]]''' was the seventh month of that common year. The month, which began on a [[Sunday]], ended on a [[Tuesday]] after 31 days.
== International holidays ==
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* July 1 – [[Canada Day]] ([[Canada]])
* July 1 – [[July Morning]] ([[Bulgaria]])
* July 1 – [[Republic Day]] ([[Ghana]])
* July 3 – [[Independence Day]] ([[Belarus]])
* July 4 – [[Independence Day]] ([[United States]])
* July 5 – [[Independence Day]] ([[Venezuela]])
* July 6 – [[Independence Day]] ([[Malawi]])
* July 7 – [[Saba Saba Day]], [[Tanzania]]
* July 7 – [[San Fermin]] ([[Pamplona]] and [[Spain]])
* July 7 – [[Tanabata]] ([[Japan]])
* July 9 – [[Independence Day]] ([[Argentina]])
* July 14 – [[Bastille Day]] ([[France]])
* July 20 – [[Independence Day]] ([[Colombia]])
* July 21 – [[Racial Harmony Day]] ([[Singapore]])
* July 21 – [[Independence Day]] ([[Belgium]])
* July 24 – [[Tisha B'Av]] ([[Jewish]])
* July 25 – [[Commonwealth Day]] ([[Puerto Rico]])
* July 28 – [[Independence Day]] ([[Peru]])
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== [[Portal:Current events]] ==
== [[Portal:Current events]] ==
''This is an [[Portal:Current events/How to archive the portal|archived version]] of Wikipedia's [[Portal:Current events|Current events Portal]] from July 2007.''
''This is an [[Portal:Current events/How to archive the portal|archived version]] of Wikipedia's [[Portal:Current events|Current events Portal]] from July 2007.''
An evacuation is made of the American Airlines terminal of JFK airport because of a suspicious package. The package was found at 10:20 AM local time, and bomb squad was sent to the scene. The package turned out to be carrying cologne, so the terminal was cleared and operations returned to normal within an hour. (Newsday)[dead link](San Jose Mercury News)[dead link](Wikinews)
Canada celebrates its 140th anniversary. Canada Day marks the creation of the Dominion of Canada through the British North America Act on July 1, 1867. (CBC)
The United States accuses Iran of using Hezbollah to train Shia militants in Iraq. The Iranian Defence Minister had earlier called the US the "biggest sponsor of terrorism" in the world. (BBC)(Press TV)
Law and crime
Garda Síochána find over 1.5 tonnes of cocaine worth over €105 million off the coast of West Cork after a small ship sinks - the largest cocaine seizure in the history of Ireland. The naval diving squad are continuing the search, as experts believe more of the drug is still in the sea. (RTÉ)
On the 25th anniversary of their captivity, the Iranian government announces that Iranian diplomats Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi, Ahmad Motevasselian, Kazem Akhavan and Taghi Rastegar Moghaddam are still alive and being held in Israeli jails. The men were captured in 1982 in Lebanon. (PressTV)
The No.1 Intermediate Court in Beijing sentences former State Food and Drug Administration chief Cao Wenzhuang to death with a two-year reprieve on charges of corruption. (NYT)
An investigation concludes that an explosion in Tianshifu, China that killed 25 was caused by improperly stored explosives. (Wikinews)
Roger Federer defeats Rafael Nadal 7–6, 4–6, 7–6, 2–6, 6–2 to claim his fifth consecutive Wimbledon title, equaling an Open Era record set by Björn Borg in 1980. Borg was in attendance to present the Wimbledon trophy to Federer. (BBC)
A Piper Cherokee fixed-wing single engine airplane crashes during thunderstorms in Tyringham, Massachusetts, killing the two people on the plane. (The Berkshire Eagle)
On the country's Independence Day, snow falls in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the first time in 89 years and the second time in recorded history. Two people die of exposure in Argentina while one person dies in Chile. (BBC)
Mortars hit the Green Zone in Baghdad. The Green Zone has been attacked at least 80 times since March, killing 26. (CBS News)
A Cessna 310 registered to the Competitor Liaison Bureau, an arm of NASCAR, attempting an emergency landing at Orlando Sanford International Airport crashes into two homes in Sanford, Florida. Three people in one of the homes are critically injured, and a fourth person, a four-year-old girl, died; an off-duty firefighter that first responded to the scene was also injured. Two people in the other house and both the pilot and passenger in the Cessna are killed; the passenger was Dr. Bruce Kennedy, husband of International Speedway Corporation president Lesa Kennedy and brother-in-law of NASCAR chief Brian France. (WESH.com)
The Pakistan Army claims that Operation Silence at the Lal Masjid is in its final stages and that 95% of the complex is under its control. It has found the bodies of 73 militants. (CNN)
Four people who carried out failed suicide bombings in London are jailed for life, with no chance of release for at least 40 years. In passing the sentence, the judge ruled that the plot was "part of an al-Qaida inspired and controlled sequence of attacks", although the British government has always claimed the attacks were "home grown", and not connected to al-Qaida. (Guardian)(Guardian)
A Philippinesferry, the MV Blue Water Princess, sinks off the southeastern coast of Luzon, leading to four deaths and 18 people being declared missing. (News Limited)
An airstrike is carried out by two United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, in the district of New Baghdad in Baghdad, during the occupation of Iraq. The helicopters carried out three airstrikes, killing several men—including Reuters news staff Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen—and wounding two children. (The Washington Post)
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül asked the US for an explanation of alleged delivery of weapons to the PKK terrorist group. Gül said that ties with Turkey-US would collapse if arms to PKK claims confirmed. (Jerusalem Post)(Today Zeman)(PressTV)
A train carrying yellow phosphorus derails in western Ukraine, sending a toxic cloud over several villages. At least twenty people are hospitalized and hundreds are forced to evacuate. (AP via MSNBC)
Five people are killed in a twin bomb blasts in Islamabad near the venue of a rally and meeting to be addressed by Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
39 people are arrested, detained and kept at an undisclosed location in Pakistan due to an alleged connection with a recent attack on a plane carrying Pervez Musharraf.
Suspected militants attack a Pakistan army convoy detonating a bomb and opening fire leading to the loss of at least 16 lives and 14 more injuries. (AP via Fox News)
As China struggles to deal with flooding in the provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Anhui, Hubei, and Jiangsu, the city of Chongqing is hit with the largest rainstorm in the city's meteorological records, killing 32. 12 people are reported missing. The city's transportation network has been shut down completely. (Xinhua via China Daily)
Three bombs in Pakistan kill at least 52 people with at least 160 people killed in bomb attacks since the storming of the Lal Masjid mosque. (Reuters)
Castleberry's Food Company of Augusta, Georgia issues a recall on hot dog chili sauce and other products, due to contamination of Clostridium botulinum. 8 people contracted Botulism poisoning from Castleberry's products. This prompts the first botulism recall of canned foods in the United States in over 30 years. (CDC)
China shuts down a chemical plant associated with deaths in Panama from tainted medicine and two petfood plants associated with the deaths of pets in the United States. (AP via CNN)
The Taliban threatens to kill 18 South Koreans taken hostage in Afghanistan, prompting the government in Seoul to confirm an earlier plan to withdraw its troops from the country by the end of the year. Separately, the Taliban claims that it has executed two German hostages. (AP via Fox News)(Reuters)(Reuters) However, the Afghan government disputes the claim, stating that one died of a heart attack and the other is still alive. (CNN)
Nurses in Fiji go on strike over a 5 per cent pay cut imposed on them by the interim government of Frank Bainimarama with teachers and other government workers to join them next week. (ABC)
A United States federal court judge orders Sudan to pay $8 million in compensation to the victims of the bombing of the USS Cole. (CNN)
8 of the 23 South Koreans held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan are released, while one of the hostages is executed. The Taliban gives further warning that the remaining hostages will be killed. (CNN)
Abel Mutsakani, editor of the ZimOnline, is shot and seriously wounded in Johannesburg, South Africa in what may have been an assassination attempt. (AllAfrica)
Colombia's intelligence chief Andrés Peñate claims FARC rebels accidentally killed 11 politicians it was holding, after running into another rebel unit. (BBC)
Moitree Express begins on trail journey between Dhaka and Kolkata paving way for possible reopening of train route connectivity between Bangla Desh and India
The President of the Ivory CoastLaurent Gbagbo visits the former rebel held north for the first time since 2002 where stockpiled weapons will be burnt as a symbol of reconciliation after the end of an uprising. (BBC)
