Explore 2493 historical events from 2000–2009.
The 2007 Chittagong mudslides occurred in the port city of Chittagong in south-eastern Bangladesh. On 11 June 2007, heavy monsoon rainfall caused mudslides that engulfed slums arou…
Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Ban
The 2007 al-Askari mosque bombing occurred on 13 June 2007 at around 9 am local time at one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, the al-Askari Mosque, and has been attributed by Ira…
Insurgents carried out a second bombing at the al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam
Favela is an umbrella name for several types of impoverished neighborhoods in Brazil. The term, which means slum or ghetto, was first used in the Slum of Providência in the center …
As a result of an ongoing conflict between drug dealers and police in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a large military an
The Hughes/McDonnell Douglas/Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. Nose-mo…
Two U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopters (pictured) conducted a series of air-to-ground attacks in Baghdad.
The Chūetsu offshore earthquake was a powerful magnitude 6.6 earthquake that occurred 10:13 local time on July 16, 2007, in the northwest Niigata Prefecture of Japan. The earthqua…
An earthquake of magnitude .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw 6.6 struck…
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by TAM Airlines from Porto Alegre to São Paulo, Brazil. On the evening of 17 July 2007, the Ai…
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overran the runway at Congonhas Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, killing 199 people.
The Chūetsu offshore earthquake was a powerful magnitude 6.6 earthquake that occurred 10:13 local time on July 16, 2007, in the northwest Niigata Prefecture of Japan. The earthqua…
A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a fantasy novel by British author J. K. Rowling. It is the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series. It was released on 21 July 20…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the popular Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, was released…
Pratibha Devisingh Patil, also known as Pratibha Patil Shekhawat, is an Indian stateswoman and lawyer who served as the president of India from 2007 to 2012. She was the first woma…
Pratibha Patil was sworn in as the first female president of India.
Shambo was a black Friesian bull living in the interfaith Skanda Vale Temple near Llanpumsaint in Wales who had been adopted by the local Hindu community as a sacred animal. He cam…
After widespread controversy throughout Wales, Shambo, a black Friesian bull that had been adopted by the local Hindu…
A car chase or vehicle pursuit is the vehicular overland chase of one party by another, involving at least one automobile or other wheeled motor vehicle, commonly hot pursuit of su…
While covering a police pursuit in Phoenix, Arizona, two news helicopters collided in mid-air, killing both crews.
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: Operation Banner, the British Armed Forces' operation in Northern Ireland, ended after 38 years with a…
The I-35W Mississippi River bridge was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River one-half mile downstream from the Saint Antho…
Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, United States, suffered a…
Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann is a Chilean Army general and a former member of the Foreign Affairs Department of the DINA — the Chilean secret police under Augusto Pinochet's mili…
Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been…
Lorena Telpuk, formerly María del Luján Telpuk or the Suitcase Girl, is a former airport police officer at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is best known fo…
An airport police officer discovered a suitcase containing approximately US$800,000 as it passed through security at…
Queen's Pier, named after Queen Victoria, was a public pier in front of City Hall in Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong. For three generations it served not only as a public pier …
Amid large protests against the impending demolition of the Queen's Pier, the High Court of Hong Kong dismissed legal…
BioShock is a 2007 first-person shooter video game developed by 2K Boston and 2K Australia, and published by 2K. The first game in the BioShock series, it was released for Microsof…
BioShock was released in North America, becoming a critical success and a demonstration of video games as an art form.
Three bomb attacks on the Egyptian resort city of Dahab, in the Sinai Peninsula, took place on 24 April 2006. The resort town is popular with Western tourists and Egyptians alike d…
Bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab kill 23 people and injure about 80
USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) was one of the few Essex-class aircraft carriers completed after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Oriskany dur…
The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef
The 2006 Nepal revolution, also known as the Democracy Movement, was a political movement that was opposed to Nepal's monarchy system under King Gyanendra. The movement was the sec…
The post Loktantra Andolan government passes a landmark bill curtailing the power of the monarchy and making Nepal a sec
The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake occurred at 05:53 local time on 27 May with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging) in the Yogyakarta region of Java…
The 6
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees …
Hamdan v
The Qinghai–Tibet railway or Qingzang railway, is a high-elevation railway line in China between Xining, Qinghai Province, and Lhasa, Tibet. With over 960 km (600 mi) of track bein…
The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway is conducted in China.
The Valencia Metro derailment occurred in Valencia, Spain's third largest city, on 3 July 2006 at 1 p.m. CEST between Jesús and Plaça d'Espanya stations on the Line 1 of the Metrov…
The Valencia Metro derailment kills 41 people.