- November 5
- Gold passes US$800 per ounce. [768.82]
- A team of nuclear experts begin disabling three of North Korea's nuclear facilities at Yongbyon. [95.55]
- PetroChina energy producer debuts on the Shanghai stock market. It instantly becomes the world's most valuable company. [102.85]
- Italian police seize Salvatore Lo Piccolo, his son Alessandro, and two others. Piccolo is the most senior Sicilian Mafia boss, on the run for 24 years. [95.64]
- The Writers Guild of America goes on strike. [38]
- 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. [38]
- A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan. Among the dead are six members of the National Assembly. [38] [95.34]
- November 7
- The Jokela school shooting occurs. Finnish youth Pekka-Eric Auvinen shoots dead eight people and wounds one at the Jokela School Centre. [38]
- A 48-hour long state of emergency for Tbilisi is declared by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili due to the intense anti-government protests that have gripped the capital city. [38]
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- The Canadian dollar reaches its highest level since the 19th century against the American dollar, at US$1.10. [95.79]
- The German government approves a one-year extension of its participation in Operation Enduring Freedom, in patroling shipping off the Horn of Africa, and within Afghanistan. [95.73]
- November 8
- The 8th annual Latin Grammy Awards are held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center at Mandalay Bay on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, USA, near Las Vegas. [38]
- BHP Billiton announces plans to acquire Rio Tinto, giving the combined company a market capitalization of about US$360 billion, the biggest merger in history. [134.72]
- November 9
- China Merchants Bank becomes the third Chinese bank to open a branch in New York. [134.90]
- November 10
- At the Ibero-American summit in Santiago, Chile, Spain's prime minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero responds to heckling by Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez by telling him "Why don't you just shut up?". [134.44]
- November 11
- Slovenians vote in the final round of the nation's presidential elections. Danilo Türk won the race with 68.26 percent of the vote. [38]
- November 13
- An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, north of Manila, killing four people, including Basilan Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding six others. [38]
- Parliamentary elections in Denmark. Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's Center-right coalition wins a third term. [38] [134.59]
- November 14
- Legend Numismatics sells a collection of over 1000 US pattern coins for over $30 million in a private transaction, double the previous record for a private transaction of coins. [764.1]
- In New York City, USA, Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries sells at auction a US 1918 24-cent Jenny invert airmail stamp, unused, for US$977,500, a record for a single US stamp at auction. [280.8] [798.3] [957.4]
- In France, union strikes begin with railway, bus, and metro workers. The rolling strikes are to protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to end special regimes for public-sector pensions. [134.57]
- A 7.7 magnitude earthquake occurs in northern Chile. [38]
- High Speed 1 from London to the Channel Tunnel is opened to passengers. [38]
- November
- Heritage Auction Galleries sells a US 1927-D Saint-Gaudens double eagle MS-67 for $1,897,500. [548.79]
- November 16
- 4,000 people are killed by flooding by Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh. Cost of damage totals US$2.3 billion. [38] [139.131]
- November 18
- The Zasyadko mine disaster in eastern Ukraine claims the lives of 101 miners. [38]
- November 20
- The UK's HM Revenue and Customs admits that it has misplaced two computer discs which contain the records of child benefit claimants data, including bank details and National Insurance numbers, in the United Kingdom, leaving up to 7.25 million households susceptible to identity theft. [38]
- November 21
- Senegalese street vendors riot in Dakar after government attempts to ban them from operating in the center of the capital city. [38]
- November 22
- Vladimer Gurgenidze becomes the 17th Prime Minister of Georgia. [38]
- November 24
- Australian Labor Party wins the federal election in Australia; Labor leader Kevin Rudd is elected to succeed John Howard as Prime Minister of Australia. [38]
- Police break up anti-Putin demonstrations in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. [38]
- November 25
- Parliamentary elections are held in Croatia. [38]
- Nawaz Sharif makes a second attempt to return to Pakistan along with his brother Shahbaz Sharif and other family members. [38]
- Riots continue for a second night in Val-d'Oise, France following the death of two youths in a motorcycle collision with a police vehicle. [38]
- A European Parliament election takes place in Romania. [38]
- November 27
- United Nations Development Programme releases the 2007/2008 Human Development Report. [38]
- The Annapolis Conference, a peace conference trying to end the Arab-Israeli conflict, is held in Annapolis, Maryland in the United States. [38]
- November 28
- President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf stands down as the head of the Pakistan Army and is succeeded by Lt. General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. [38] [103.50]
- November 29
- The Armed Forces of the Philippines lays siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny. [38]
- The German government mandates a minimum wage for postal workers, the first minimum wage in the country. [102.60]
- November 30
- Atlasjet Flight 4203 crashes near Keçiborlu, Turkey, killing all 56 people on board. [38]
- The 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially ends. [38]
- December 2
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's proposed changes to the Venezuelan constitution are narrowly defeated in a nationwide referendum. The proposal would make changes to 69 of 350 articles of 1999 constitution to concentrate almost all power in the executive, and instituting socialism. [38] [102.12] [111.32]
- United Russia party of Vladimir Putin wins parliamentary elections in Russia, increasing their majority with 64 percent of the votes. [38] [102.59]
- Activision and Vivendi Games announce a merger, to be called Activision Blizzard. The US$18.9 billion deal is the biggest ever in the videogame industry. [9]
- December 3
- (to December 14) United Nations Climate Change Conference at Nusa Dua in Bali, Indonesia. [38]
- Kevin Rudd is sworn in as the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, by Governor General Major-General Michael Jeffery. [38]
- Death of Daniele Emmanuello, Mafia godfather of Gela, Sicily, Italy; shot dead by police. [102.62]
- December 4
- The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) releases the results of the PISA 2006 survey. [38]
- December 5
- 19-year old Robert A. Hawkins shoots eight people dead and injures five at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, then commits suicide. [38]
- December 6
- A pipe bomb explodes in a law office in Paris, France, killing one person. [38]
- December 7
- Uranus' orbit is positioned such that the sun shines directly above its equator (i.e. an equinox). [38]
- December 8
- 2007 Africa - European Union Summit takes place as 27 European Union and 53 African Union leaders gather in Lisbon, Portugal, for their first joint summit in seven years, to discuss trade and economic ties. The British and Czech prime ministers boycott the event due to the presence of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. [38] [102.54]
- December 9
- In Oruro, Bolivia, part of the constituent assembly accepts 411 new clauses of the constitution. [103.44]
- Seven South American governments agree on the creation of the Banco del Sur, a common development bank for the region. [103.46]
- December 10
- The United Nations deadline for a negotiated settlement on the future of Kosovo passes without an international agreement. [38]
- In Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner succeeds husband Néstor Kirchner as president. [102.44] [103.43] [106.32]
- Canadian Conrad Black is sentenced in Chicago, Illinois, to 6.5 years in jail for embezzling US$6.1 million from his Hollinger media empire. [103.68]
- Music group Led Zeppelin reunites in London, England, for the Ahmet Ertegün tribute. [38]
- December 11
- In Algiers, Algeria, two bombs explode within ten minutes of each other, the first near a UN office and the other detonated close to the Algerian Supreme Court. The official death count for both blasts stands at 31. [38]
- Cunard Line debuts the Queen Victoria ocean liner (90,000 gross tons, passenger capacity 2014). [73.16] [140.12]
- In New York, Sotheby's auctions the Society of the Cincinatti badge of George Washington (later owned by the Marquis de Lafayette) for US$5.035 million. [768.1] (December 12 [464.74])
- December 12
- Election by the Swiss Parliament of Switzerland's highest executive authority, the Swiss Federal Council (seven members). All the sitting members are confirmed, except Christoph Blocher, who in an upset is replaced by Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf. This is only the sixth time in Swiss history a sitting member is not reconfirmed. [38]
- The US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Canada, and the Swiss National Bank announce a joint plan to ease liquidity crisis in global money markets. [103.81]
- December 13
- Entry into force of the revised version of the European Patent Convention (EPC), known as the EPC 2000. [38]
- European leaders sign the Treaty of Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal. [38] [135.86]
- December 14
- The World Bank convinces 45 countries to give it US$25 billion to hand out to the world's poorest states over the next three years. [135.100]
- European Union leaders attend a formal summit in Brussels, Belgium. [135.86]
- December 15
- President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf lifts the State of Emergency in Pakistan. [38]
- December
- Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Gem cruise ship (93,502 gross tons, 2384 passengers) is christened in New York, and begins its maiden voyage to Florida and the Bahamas. [73.14] [151.34]
- December 16
- Turkish aircraft bomb Kurdish rebel positions deep inside northern Iraq, and 300 troops cross the border in pursuit of fighters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party. [135.79]
- The Caribbean Forum of fifteen member states signs a trade agreement with the European Union. [106.74]
- British military hands over control of Basra province to Iraqi security forces. [135.94]
- December 17
- The International Finance Corporation of the World Bank unveils a US$1 billion health-care strategy for Africa. [135.121]
- December 18
- Jacob Zuma is elected president of the African National Congress political party in South Africa during the party's national conference. [38] [135.15]
- The European Central Bank lends 350 billion euros to banks. [135.9]
- The Verkhovna Rada (parliament) approves Yulia Tymoshenko to become Prime Minister of Ukraine by a one-vote margin. [38] [135.84]
- The Public Library of Science publishes the first full genetic sequence of a grape variety: pinot noir. [135.137]
- December 19
- A presidential election takes place in South Korea. Former mayor of Seoul Lee Myung-bak, of the Grand National Party, wins with 50 percent of the vote against two other major opponents. [38]
- Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is announced as Time magazine's 2007 Person of the Year. [38]
- An explosion and fire at the T2 Laboratories facility in Jacksonville, Florida kills four and injures 14. [38]
- The Flying Phantom sinks in the River Clyde, three crew are killed. [38]
- December 20
- A group of activist Lakota Indians send a letter to the United States State Department declaring their secession from the Union. [38]
- An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 ML hits the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, causing one death and significant damage in the town of Gisborne. [38]
- The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art, together with O Lavrador de Café, by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari. [38]
- December 21
- The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the Schengen border-free zone. [38]
- Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest-ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days. [38]
- December 23
- A general election is held in Thailand. The People's Power Party, which is associated with former Prime Minster Thaksin Shinawatra, wins a majority of seats (233 of 480) in the parliament. [38] [106.5]
- In Nepal, parliament votres almost unanimously to abolish the 240-year-old monarchy. [111.38]
- Presidential election in Uzbekistan. [38]
- December 24
- The Nepalese government announces that the country's 240-year-old monarchy will be abolished in 2008 and a new republic will be declared. [38]
- December 25
- An overcrowded suspension bridge collapses near Nepalgunj, Nepal. At least 15 people are dead, with 100 to 200 missing. [38]
- An escaped tiger at the San Francisco Zoo kills one person and injures two others. [38]
- December 27
- At an election rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, former President Benazir Bhutto, leader of opposition Pakistan People's Party, is assassinated. At least 20 others are killed by a bomb blast. Ensuing violence leaves about 60 dead. [35] [38] [106.21,82]
- Presidential and parliamentary elections take place in Kenya. Mwai Kibaki re-elected President. Accusations of wide-spread rigging on both sides leads to hundreds of deaths. [35] [106.8]
- December 30
- Kenya's electoral commission head declares Mwai Kibaki president, then he is sworn in as president at the State House. [106.37]
- December 31
- Over 200 people are killed in Kenya due to riots over the results of the presidential election which occurred on December 27. [38]
- The massive Big Dig construction project in Boston, Massachusetts ends. [5] [38]
- Year
- Worldwide vehicle sales: General Motors 9.369 million, Toyota 9.366 million. [35]
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