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2007 in the United States
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Events from the year 2007 in the United States.
Incumbents
Events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
- August 4 - The Phoenix spacecraft launches toward the Martian north pole.
- August 6 - The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah collapses, trapping six miners.
- August 7 - Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron's home run record by hitting his 756th home run.
- August 8 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour is successfully launched on mission STS-118.
- August 9 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 387.18 points, its largest single-day drop since February 27.
- August 12 - Tiger Woods wins PGA Championship, his 13th career major.
- August 15 - NBA referee Tim Donaghy surrenders to police and pleads guilty to charges brought up by the FBI investigation that he placed bets on games that he refereed.
- August 21 - STS-118 lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing Space Shuttle Endeavour's 19th flight.
- August 22 - The Texas Rangers score thirty runs in one game, setting the modern (post-1900) MLB record for most runs by one team in a single game, in a 30-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
- August 27 - United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation, to be effective September 17.
- August 30 - 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident in which a B-52 flew from Minot AFB, ND to Barksdale AFB, LA carrying 6 nuclear warheads.
September
October
November
- November 3 - DARPA Grand Challenge, a prized competition for driverless cars to navigate safely in traffic is scheduled.
- November 4 - Daylight saving time in the United States and most of Canada will end, one week later than the previous schedule, in accordance with the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
- November 5 - The Writers Guild of America goes on strike.
- November 6 - Legislative elections are held in the U.S. states of Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia; Kentucky and Mississippi also hold gubernatorial elections.
- November 8 - The 8th annual Latin Grammy Awards were held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, U.S.
- November 27 - The Annapolis Conference, a peace conference trying to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, is held in Annapolis, Maryland.
December
Scheduled events
November
December
Ongoing
Births
Deaths
January
- January 1 - Ernie Koy, American baseball player (b. 1909)
- January 1 - Darrent Williams, American football player (b. 1982)
- January 7 - Bobby Hamilton, American race car driver (b. 1957)
- January 8 - Yvonne de Carlo, American actress (b. 1922)
- January 11 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author and conspiracy researcher (b. 1932)
- January 12 - Alice Coltrane, American jazz musician (b. 1937)
- January 13 - Michael Brecker, American jazz musician (b. 1949)
- January 14 - Darlene Conley, American actress (b. 1934)
- January 16 - Benny Parsons, American race car driver and television personality (b. 1941)
- January 17 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
- January 19 - Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
- January 30 - Sidney Sheldon, American author and screenwriter (b. 1917)
- January 31 - Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
- January 31 - Molly Ivins, American columnist (b. 1944)
February
See Deaths in 2007
References
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