Explore 2493 historical events from 2000–2009.
The Qahtaniyah bombings occurred on August 14, 2007, when four coordinated suicide car bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Til Ezer (al-Qahtaniyah) and Siba Sheikh Khidir…
The Kahtaniya bombings kill at least 500 people.
Princess Isabella of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, is a member of the Danish royal family. She is the second child and elder daughter of King Frederik X and Queen Mary.
Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of King Frederik X and Queen Mary of Denmark
Mirra Aleksandrovna Andreeva is a Russian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the WTA as high as world No. 5 in singles, which she achieved on 14 July 2025, and No. …
Mirra Andreeva, Russian tennis player
Infanta Sofía of Spain is a member of the Spanish royal family. She is the younger daughter of King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia and, as such, is second in the line of succession to…
Infanta Sofía of Spain, Spanish princess
Rayane Messi Tanfouri is a French footballer who plays as a left winger for Saudi Pro League club Neom, on loan from Strasbourg.
Rayane Messi, French footballer
The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting and mass shooting that occurred on Monday, April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institut…
Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho murders 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide
The Johnson Space Center shooting was an incident of hostage taking that occurred on April 20, 2007, in Building 44, the Communication and Tracking Development Laboratory, at the L…
Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips barricades himself with a handgun in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Hous
Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia, died of cardiac arrest on 23 April 2007, twelve days after being admitted to the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. Yeltsin was the …
Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the we…
Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy wi
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east,…
Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem
Bryce Maximus James is an American college basketball player for the Arizona Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference. He is the second child of National Basketball Association (NBA) play…
Bryce James, American basketball player
Nanou Philips is a Belgian social media personality. Under the online handle Nanou ASMR, she produces ASMR content, which she is mostly known for, on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram…
Nanou Philips, Belgian ASMR social media personality
Elliana Kathryn Walmsley is an American dancer. She became known for appearing in Lifetime's reality show Dance Moms.
Elliana Walmsley, American dancer
Mason Thames is an American actor. He made his acting debut in 2017 and gained recognition for his performance in the lead role of Finney Blake in the horror film The Black Phone (…
Mason Thames, American actor
Madeleine Beth McCann is a British missing person, who at the age of 3 disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Lagos, Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 200…
The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily report
Kenya Airways Flight 507 was a scheduled international passenger service between Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and Nairobi, Kenya with a stopover in Douala, Cameroon, operated by Kenya Air…
Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 ab
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and …
Trains from North and South Korea cross the 38th Parallel in a test-run agreed by both governments
The president of Romania is the head of state of Romania. The president is directly elected by a two-round system, and, following a modification to the Romanian Constitution in 200…
President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension
The 2007 Moscow, Idaho, shooting was an ambush and sniper attack that occurred on the night of May 19, 2007 in Moscow, Idaho, United States, and lasted into the early morning hours…
A mass shooting starts in Moscow, Idaho, which would leave 3 non-shooters dead and 3 more injured, before the shooter co
Super Cyclonic Storm Gonu was an extremely powerful tropical cyclone that became the strongest cyclone on record in the Arabian Sea. The second named tropical cyclone of the 2007 N…
Cyclone Gonu develops from an area of convection in the Arabian Sea, becoming the worst recorded natural disaster in Oma
Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right winger for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. He is regarded as one of the be…
Lamine Yamal, Spanish footballer
Frank Maine Bateson was a New Zealand astronomer who specialised in the study of variable stars.
Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (born 1909)
Gaétan Joseph Pierre Duchesne was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played with the Washington Capitals, Minnesota North Stars, San Jose Sharks and Florida Panthers in …
Gaétan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1962)
Newcastle, also known as Greater Newcastle, is a large metropolitan area and the second-most-populous such area of New South Wales, Australia. It includes the cities of Newcastle a…
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is hit by the State's worst storms and flooding in 30 years resulting in the deat