NationMaster - Encyclopedia: November 2007

November 2007 is the eleventh month of that year. It began on a Thursday and 30 days later, ended on a Friday. October 2007 is the tenth month of that year. ... December 2007 is the twelfth month of that year and has yet to occur. ... For other uses, see November (disambiguation). ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The god Thor, after whom Thursday is named. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

International holidays

November 1 - All Saints Day.
November 1 - World Vegan Day.
November 2 - Day of the dead
November 5 - Guy Fawkes United Kingdom
November 10 - Diwali festival in India.
November 11 - Veterans Day (observed) in the United States.
November 13 - International Phone Dictionary Day.
November 15 - Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil.
November 22 - Thanksgiving in the United States.
November 28 - Independence Day in Albania.

is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Christian holiday. ... is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... World Vegan Day is November 1st each year to celebrate the creation of The Vegan Society. ... is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Day of the Dead (disambiguation). ... is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 â€“ 31 January 1606) sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of Roman Catholic revolutionaries from England who planned to carry out the Gunpowder Plot. ... is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Diwali,or Deepawali, (also called Tihar and Swanti in Nepal) (Markiscarali) is a major Indian and Nepalese festive holiday. ... is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For Veterans Day in the United Kingdom, see Veterans Day UK. President Eisenhower signs HR7786, officially changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day. ... is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... International Phone Dictionary Day is a worldwide holiday created in order to celebrate the T9 Dictionary which exists on the majority of phones, including those made by LG, Samsung Electronics, Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Sanyo, Sagem and others. ... is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 326th day of the year (327th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Canadian holiday, see Thanksgiving (Canada). ... is the 332nd day of the year (333rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Independence Day (disambiguation). ...

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November 1, 2007 (Thursday)

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The Swedish Mint (Swedish: Myntverket) in Eskilstuna, Sweden, loses the competition to produce Swedish national coins to Rahapaja OY of Finland, ending a more than 1000-year-long tradition of minting Swedish coins in Sweden. (Dagens Nyheter)
Automaker Chrysler announces plans for cutting an additional 12,000 jobs worldwide as part of a major restructuring plan. (AP via CNN)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges over 360 points, or 2.6%, in its worst daily loss since February 27. Similar percentage losses occurred in Europe earlier in the day. (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
2007 Atlantic hurricane season: Tropical Storm Noel strengthens into a Category 1 hurricane and heads towards Bermuda having killed at least 108 people so far. (Reuters)
Benazir Bhutto leaves Karachi for United Arab Emirates amidst speculations that President Pervez Musharraf might impose martial law in Pakistan. (ANI via AndhraNews.net)
2007 Tabasco flood: Massive flooding hits the Mexican state of Tabasco, with Governor Andrés Granier estimating that 80% of its 25,000 km² surface area is under water. (BBC) (El Universal)
The London Metropolitan Police is found guilty of violations of Health and Safety law over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes on the London underground in July 2005, and is fined £175,000 and ordered to pay £385,000 in legal costs. (Sky News) (BBC)
Flash floods in central Vietnam kill at least 13 people and injure 31 with 14,000 homes submerged in Quang Tri, Quang Binh and Quang Nam provinces. (Reuters)
A suicide bomber attacks a bus carrying Pakistan Air Force personnel in Punjab resulting in at least five deaths and 40 people being injured. (AP via NYT)

November 2, 2007 (Friday)

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The United Nations will send home 108 of the 950 Sri Lankan peacekeepers in Haiti, accusing them of sexual abuse, including with underage girls. (BBC)
2007 Georgian demonstrations: Tens of thousands of Georgians protest outside parliament in Tbilisi, urging President Mikhail Saakashvili to step down. (BBC)
S. P. Thamilselvan, the political chief of the Sri Lankan rebel group Tamil Tigers, is killed in an attack by the Sri Lanka Air Force near Kilinochchi. (Bloomberg)
Stocks across Asia drop sharply after a rough Thursday in Europe and the United States, with the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong losing over 1,000 points, or 3.25%, the biggest loss of any Asian market. London's FTSE 100 Index loses ground for a second day after the news in Asia. (The Times)
ICANN celebrates Vint Cerf years, names Peter Dengate Thrush chairman, forms working group on internationalized domain names. (NZ Herald) (AP) (CBC.ca)

November 3, 2007 (Saturday)

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2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- President Pervez Musharraf declares a period of emergency rule amid rising militant violence. (BBC) (Reuters)
- Television channels and telephone lines in many of Pakistan's cities are blocked. (ANI via AndhraNews.net)
- Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returns to Karachi, cutting short her Dubai visit. (ANI via AndhraNews.net)
- Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar takes an oath as the new Chief Justice of the apex court. (ANI via AndhraNews.net)
- Militants capture two police stations in Swat. (ANI via AndhraNews.net)

November 4, 2007 (Sunday)

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At least six people are killed as a Learjet 35 crashes into a residential district in São Paulo, Brazil. (Reuters via News Limited)
The Wall Street Journal reports that Charles Prince has resigned as the head of Citigroup to be replaced by former United States Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin. (BBC)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Former cricketer and leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan escapes from house arrest. (ANI via AndhraNews.net)
- Lawyers prepare for a countrywide strike tomorrow. (ANI via AndhraNews.net)
Guatemalan general elections are held to elect a new president. (BBC)
Antonio Cromartie of the San Diego Chargers breaks the record for the longest play in NFL history with a 109 yard missed field goal return.

November 5, 2007 (Monday)

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The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong drops over 1,500 points, or 5%, three days after a previous sizable decline. The Hang Seng registers its largest daily loss since September 2001. (Bloomberg)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- The Netherlands suspends aid to Pakistan following the imposition of emergency rule. (ANI via AndhraNews.net)
- Several demonstrating lawyers protesting outside the Sindh High Court are arrested. (ANI via AndhraNews.net)
- President of the United States George W. Bush calls on the President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf to end the state of emergency and restore civilian rule. (BBC)
Italian police arrest Sicilian mafia boss Salvatore Lo Piccolo, his son Sandro and two other mafiosi in Carini, Palermo. (BBC)
A fire at a retirement home in a village near Tula, Russia, kills at least 23 people. (BBC)
Members of the Writers Guild of America asks 12,000 of its members to join a Hollywood screenwriters strike over a dispute over residuals. (BBC)
Álvaro Colom is elected President of Guatemala in the 2007 general election. (Reuters)
Google and the Open Handset Alliance announce the Android mobile phone platform, a joint effort in handheld computing. (Ars Technica) (CNN)
The number of people in southern Mexico displaced by the 2007 Tabasco flood nears a million (VOA), with 300,000 more still trapped in their homes, waiting to be rescued. (BBC)

November 6, 2007 (Tuesday)

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Queen Elizabeth II formally opens High Speed 1 and London's St Pancras station, the new home for Eurostar trains linking London with Paris and Brussels as of November 14, replacing the Eurostar terminus at Waterloo station. (BBC)
At least 35 people are killed and dozens more wounded in a suicide bombing in northern Afghanistan, officials say. (BBC)
2007 Belgian government formation: Belgium sets a new national record for the longest period without a new government – 149 days have passed since the general election – as parties are still trying to bridge their opposing views on state reforms. (Daily Telegraph)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency: Over 100 anti-emergency activists are arrested as part of a crackdown process in Pakistan. (ANI via AndhraNews.net)
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia visits the Vatican in what is the first audience by the head of the Roman Catholic Church with a Saudi monarch. (BBC)
Scores of students are injured and arrested ahead of protests in Venezuela. The demonstrations, scheduled for Wednesday, are to demand a delay to a referendum aimed at expanding the powers of Hugo Chávez. (ABC News Australia)
Efficient wins the 2007 Melbourne Cup. (ABC News Australia)
The incumbent People's National Movement party retains power in the Trinidad and Tobago elections. (BBC)
John "Jordan" Lewis is arrested by the Miami-Dade Police Department for the killing of Police Officer Charles Cassidy at a Dunkin Donuts shop in the East Oak Lane section of Philadelphia on October 31, 2007. [1]

November 7, 2007 (Wednesday)

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80,000 students march in Caracas, Venezuela, to protest against a constitutional referendum that would give more power to President Hugo Chávez. Nine students are injured by gunmen at the Central University of Venezuela. (NYT)
In Belgium, government formation discussions have gone on for a record 150 days as Flemish and Walloon politicians clash over Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde. (Economist)
Astronomers in the United Sates have found a fifth planet in orbit around the star 55 Cancri 41 light years from Earth. (BBC)
US President George W. Bush tells Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to take steps to restore civilian rule. (AndhraNews.net)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledges friendship between France and the United States and a renewed alliance on the war in Afghanistan and against Iran's nuclear program in a speech to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress. (CNN)
Space Shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center, ending STS-120, a 15-day mission to the International Space Station. (Spaceflightnow.com)
A fire in Gwalior, India, ruins over 400 small stores. Losses are estimated at 10 million rupees (USD 250,000). (AndhraNews.net)
Taliban militants capture the Pakistani town of Madyan in Waziristan's Swat region and hoist their flags over buildings. (AndhraNews.net)
Four Albanian militants are killed in a Macedonian police operation. (Wikinews)
2007 Georgian demonstrations: Georgian riot police use tear gas, water and sonic^[1]^[2] cannons to break up thousands of anti-government protesters calling for the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili in Tbilisi. (Aljazeera) The President announces a 15-day nationwide state of emergency. (AP via CNN)
At least eight people are killed and several injured in a school shooting in Tuusula (Tusby), north of Helsinki, Finland. (BBC)
The U.S. dollar stumbles to new lows after Cheng Siwei, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, calls for China to shift more of its $1.43 trillion of currency reserves into "stronger currencies", such as the euro. (MarketWatch)
Brad Wall is elected as Premier of Saskatchewan as his Saskatchewan Party defeats the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party by a 37-21 margin in the 26th Saskatchewan general election. (CBC)

November 8, 2007 (Thursday)

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EU interior ministers agreed that nine member states from central and eastern Europe are sufficiently prepared to join EU's Schengen border-free zone on December 21. (EUobserver)
A United States Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashes in Santa Lucia di Piave, Italy, killing four people and injuring six. (BBC)
The United States Senate confirms Michael Mukasey as the Attorney General of the United States. (Reuters)
At least 29 miners are killed in a gas leak in a colliery in China's Guizhou province. (BBC)
Pakistan Television quotes President Pervez Musharraf as saying that Pakistan will hold elections before 15 February 2008. (AndhraNews.net)
2007 North Sea flood: a 3 metre storm tide heads for the English Channel, causing dozens of flood warnings by the UK's Environment Agency. Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls an emergency COBRA meeting for Friday, as the wave could potentially affect thousands of properties and a threat to many lives. The tidal wave is thought to be caused by gale-force winds off Scotland and high tides. 200 are evacuated. (Daily Mail) (BBC)
At least seven construction workers are killed and 15 others injured when a bridge under construction collapses in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (BBC)
2007 Georgian demonstrations:
- Georgia's opposition says it is suspending anti-government protests in Tbilisi, after President Mikhail Saakashvili declared a state of emergency and closed all independent news outlets. (IHT)
- President Mikhail Saakashvili justifies the police action by saying that neighboring Russia was stirring trouble and that he had expelled three Russian diplomats. (VOA)
- President Mikhail Saakashvili announces that he will participate in a special presidential election on January 5, 2008, and that a referendum will held on the same day for the timing of parliamentary elections, which the opposition had demanded be held next spring. (NYT)
The United States Congress overrides President George W. Bush's veto of the $23 billion Water Resource Bill. (CNN)
Asian markets drop sharply for the third time in five sessions. The volatile Hang Seng Index drops nearly 1,000 points on the day, and the Shanghai Composite Index ends nearly 5% lower. (MarketWatch)

November 9, 2007 (Friday)

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Student protests against the 2007 Venezuelan constitutional referendum continue. Five people are wounded in Mérida in a clash between rival student groups. (NYT)
The People's Republic of China suspends the export of toys covered in a toxic chemical 1,4-butanediol that have been recalled in both the United States and China. (AP via IHT)
The Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger declares a state of emergency to clean up an oil spill in San Francisco Bay caused by a container ship hitting the San Francisco Bay Bridge on Wednesday. (BBC)
At least 40 people die in Mogadishu in heavy fighting between Ethiopian forces and Somalian Islamist insurgents. (Reuters via News Limited)
Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony tells peace negotiator Norbert Mao that Vincent Otti, his former deputy, is not dead as rumored, but is under house arrest for espionage. (BBC)
Iraqi insurgency: The United States Army releases five Iranian suspects who had been arrested in Iraq. (BBC)
2007 North Sea flood: The Environment Agency of England and Wales issues eight severe flood warnings for eastern England with residents ordered to evacuate from 7,500 homes in Great Yarmouth. (CNN)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Benazir Bhutto is placed under house arrest hours before a proposed mass rally against the 2007 Pakistani state of emergency. Over 5000 supporters of Pakistan People's Party have been arrested to avert rally. (AFP via Channel News Asia) (BBC) (AndhraNews.net)
- Benazir Bhutto is released from house arrest bringing to an end a day long stand-off between the former prime minister and security forces. (CNN)
Protests break out in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, over the caricatures of Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a local newspaper. (Kashmir Observer)

November 10, 2007 (Saturday)

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Iranian police arrest about 180 Sufi Muslims who attacked a Shia mosque in Borujerd after a cleric said their religion was "illegitimate". (BBC)
Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva uncovers a 4,000-year-old temple in the Ventarron site in the Lambayeque Region of Peru. (Reuters)
Six American forces serving under NATO's International Security Assistance Force are killed in an insurgent ambush while patrolling in eastern Afghanistan. (CNN)
2007 Bersih Rally: Malaysia sees its largest political protest in 10 years. (CNN)
Battle of Mogadishu (November 2007): More than 70 people die and over 200 are wounded in battles in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. (BBC)
2007 North Sea flood: The German ports of Hamburg and Bremerhaven suffer in the floods. (Euronews)
2007 Pakistani state of emergency:
- Malik Mohammad Qayyum, the Attorney General of Pakistan predicts that the 2007 Pakistani state of emergency could be lifted within a month. (BBC)
- Benazir Bhutto is to lead a long march against the emergency on 13 November. (AndhraNews.net)
Stagehands belonging to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees go on strike, shutting down most Broadway plays and musicals. (AP via Fox News)
Workers at La Scala opera house in Milan go on strike in a dispute over pay and contracts. (BBC)

November 11, 2007 (Sunday)

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Prince William, an officer in the Blues and Royals, laid a wreath for the first time by the Cenotaph as the Queen, his grandmother, and his father, the Prince of Wales, looked on. (AP)
A majority of French citizens would support a union with the French-speaking Belgian region of Wallonia if Belgium were to cease to exist, according to a survey. (Journal du Dimanche)
A similar survey held in the Netherlands shows that 45% of the Dutch would support a union with Flanders, whereas 49% would oppose such a union. (Trouw)
Danilo Türk wins the 2007 Slovenian presidential elections with a large margin. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister, Ieng Sary and his wife, Ieng Thirith are arrested in Phnom Penh to face charges before that country's U.N. genocide tribunal. (AP via FOX News)
The Ulster Defence Association announces that its Ulster Freedom Fighters' units are to stand down from midnight. (RTÉ)
Gabriele Sandri, a 26-year old supporter of the sports club S.S. Lazio is killed by police in a service station near Arezzo, Italy. Football fans later clash with police in most Italian stadiums. (BBC)

November 12, 2007 (Monday)

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