Events in January 2007
Jan. 1: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva is sworn in for a second term in Brasilia.
Ban Ki-moon takes over as United Nations Secretary-General.
Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union taking the bloc’s membership to 27 nations.
Jan. 4: Nancy Pelosi is sworn in as the first woman Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives as the Democrats regain control of the Congress after 12 years.
Jan. 5: Frank Bainimarama is sworn in Fiji’s interim Prime Minister.
China develops its own advanced fighter aircraft Jian-10.
Jan. 7: Two British helicopter pilots Jennifer Murray and Colin Bodill set a record in flying around the world by way of the poles.
Jan. 10: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is sworn in for a fresh six-year term following victory in the December 2 polls.
Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega is sworn in for a five-year term as Nicaraguan President returning to power after 16 years.
Jan. 11: Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed resigns as chief of the non-party caretaker government. Emergency is declared and nation-wide curfew imposed.
An Ethiopian court hands down life term to former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam after a 12-year trial.
Jan. 12: Fakhruddin Ahmed, an economist, is sworn in the new head of the caretaker government in Bangladesh.
Jan. 13: Raleb Majadele becomes Israel’s first Arab Cabinet Minister.
The Nepal Cabinet gives its nod for the interim Constitution.
Jan. 14: The ‘Red Crystal’ makes its debut as an additional emblem that can be used to protect relief workers in combat.
Jan. 15: The former head of Iraqi intelligence, Ibrahim al-Tikriti and revolutionary court judge, Awad Hamed al-Bandar are hanged in Baghdad.
The harrowing drama Babel bags best picture while veteran director Martin Scorsese gets best director award for his crime thriller The Departed at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills.
Maoists join Nepal legislature and Parliament proclaims a temporary constitution.
Jan. 19: Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink (53) is shot dead outside his Agos newspaper office in central Istanbul.
Jan. 20: Bangladesh President, Iajuddin Ahmed scraps the January 22 general election.
A key suspect in the murder of Hrant Dink, Ogun Samast, is held in Samsun on the Black Sea coast.
Jan. 24: Ecuador’s first woman Defence Minister Guadalupe Larriva dies after the mid-air collision of two military helicopters near an air base on the Pacific coast.
Jan. 26: Adventurer Ajeet Bajaj unfurls tricolour at South Pole and becomes the first Indian to go to both North and South Poles.
Jan.27: Iran begins work on uranium enrichment at an underground facility in Natanz.
Jan. 28: Israeli Cabinet ratifies the nomination of the first Arab-Muslim Minister Raleb Majadele.
The Northern Ireland political party Sinn Fein votes to join Ulster police and judiciary at a special conference of party members in Dublin.
Jan. 29: The Venezuelan Parliament passes a bill granting special powers to the President Hugo Chavez authorising him to rule by decree.
Jan. 30: The British Government dissolves the Northern Ireland Provincial Assembly and announces fresh polls to be held on March 7.
Jan. 31: Tatas acquire the Anglo-Dutch steel firm Corus for an unexpected £ 6.7 billion outbidding Brazil’s Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN).
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