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2007

2007 (MMVII) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the years 5767-5768 in the Hebrew Calendar, 1427-1428 in the Islamic Calendar, and 2760 a.U.c.

• Is also the year of the pig in the Chinese astrology.
• Good Friday will be on April 6.

2007 - Predicted events

2007 - January

• January 1 - Romania and Bulgaria will join the European Union, Irish will become an official language of the European Union and Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia set to adopt the Euro.
• January 1 - Change of ISBN numbering system to 13 digit code.

2007 - February

• February 4 - Super Bowl XLI to be held in Miami, Florida.
• February 24 - Michael Boyce to no longer require false identification.

2007 - March

• March - Predicted Launch of the first commercially available Flexible display screens, by electronics company Philips.
• March 1 - USS Baltimore to be deactivated.
• March 3 - Total lunar eclipse
• March 11 to April 28 - 2007 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies
• March 17 - St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City
• March 19 - Partial solar eclipse
• March 20 - The Elton John album Captain Fantastic and the Kid will be released. [1]
• March 26- The 300th anniversary of the Act of Union becoming law, making the separate Kingdoms of England and Scotland into one country, the Kingdom of Great Britain. April 28th will be the 300th anniversary of the abolition of the old Scottish parliament.
• March 31 to April 2 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.

2007 - April-June

• May 3 - Scottish parliamentary election, 2007 and the Welsh Assembly Election 2007
• May 4 - Spider-Man 3 will be released.
• May 25 - The 30th anniversary of the release of Star Wars in the U.S.
• Jacques Chirac's term as President of France will end.
• Unknown date - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second flyby of Venus on the way to Mercury orbit.
• Expected release date of the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• James Cameron hopes to have the popular anime graphic novel Battle Angel film out by June.
• The Barnstaple Western Bypass is due to open in the Spring time, providing construction goes well.

2007 - July

• July 4 - Transformers the Movie and the Fantastic Four sequel will be released in theaters
• July 13 to July 29 - The XV Pan-American Games will be held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• July 27 to August 8 - The 21st World Scout Jamboree will take place at Chelmsford Hylands Park in Essex.
• July - the U.S. President's Trade Promotion Authority is set to expire.

2007 - August

• August 8 - August 18 - Summer Universiade in Bangkok, Thailand

2007 - September

• September 11 - Partial solar eclipse

2007 - October

• October - The ten countries who joined the European Union on 1 May 2004 will join the Schengen treaty.
• October 21 - Parliamentary election in the Canadian province of Ontario

2007 - November

• November - Referendum expected to be held in Australia on the basis of forming a republic.

2007 - December

2007 - Unknown/undecided dates

• India's 10th Five-Year Plan (2002-2007) comes to an end and the 11th plan (2007-2012) starts.
• Release of the Halo Movie.
• Release of the fourth Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie [2]
• The CERN Large Hadron Collider in Europe (LHC)[3] is scheduled to be switched on.
• Uranus' orbit positions it so that the Sun shines directly from above on a spot located at its equator
• The Mark III Ford Mondeo will be launched.
• Scheduled completion of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (UK).
• Pervez Musharraf's term as President of Pakistan legally ends.
• The 6th European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) will be held in Basel, Switzerland.
• Presidential Election in Argentina.
• Presidential Election in France.
• Winter Universiade will be in Turin, Italy
• The FIFA Women's World Cup 2007 will be held in China.
• Schönefeld International Airport in Berlin will be renamed Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, and Tegel International Airport will close.
• Scheduled completion of Union Square Phase 7 in Hong Kong and Shanghai World Financial Center in Shanghai.
• 400th anniversary of the landing at Jamestown, Virginia, US, will be celebrated, with an anticipated visit from the Queen of the United Kingdom.
• The First Freedom Center will open in Richmond, Virginia, US.
• US Interstate 99 will be extended from its current terminus in Bald Eagle, PA to Interstate 80 outside Bellefonte, PA.
• The Hubble Space Telescope's batteries are set to run out of power, if action is not taken by NASA.
• The deadline for bids to host the 2016 Summer Olympics will probably be this year.
• The 2014 Winter Olympics host city will be announced in Guatemala.
• A federal election in Australia will be held.
• First Type 45 Destroyer, "HMS Daring", enters service with the British Royal Navy.
• Jack Kevorkian is eligible for parole.
• Charles Manson is eligible for parole.
• The comic strip For Better or For Worse will end after a 28-year run.
• A Futurama movie is slated to be released to DVD sometime this year
• The BBC World Service is to launch a television news channel in Arabic.
• A Star Wars 3-D re-release is planned, with all six movies undergoing further changes, restorations, and additions.
• Resident Evil 4 is expected for release in cinemas.
• Complete integration between the Andean Community and Mercosur into the South American Community of Nations.
• Construction begins on the Echelon Resort located on the former Stardust Resort & Casino property in Las Vegas, Nevada

2007 - 2007 in Fiction

• The plot of Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters likely begins on July 12 of this year.
• The "Tanker Chapter" of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty takes place on or after August 8 of this year.
• In the Mega Man series, Dr. Thomas Light is awarded the Nobel Prize for the creation of the Robot Master in this year (2007). Dr. Wily's jealousy leads him to reprogram the industrial robot masters one year later (2008, officially December 200X) starting the beginning of the long running series of games.
• In the video game, Ghost Recon 2, this is the year when a second Korean war starts.
• In the television series, Odyssey 5 the earth explodes on August 7 of this year and the consciousness of the 5 surviving crew members of the space shuttle odyssey are sent back in time by a being known as The Seeker to prevent the earth's destruction.
• The popular PC game Battlefield 2 takes place in this year.
• The events of American television series Wild Palms take place during this year.
• The events of video game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory take place in the summer of this year.
• The events of the anime series Macross Zero take place in this year, including the testing of the VF-0 variable fighter.
• The events of the movie The Jacket take place during this year.
• The World, a fictional MMORPG in the .hack anime/video game series, is released. it is the first MMORPG since the Pluto's Kiss incident.

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