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39 unusual facts about 2007


Alex Corina

On 3 May 2007, Corina stood for election as a City Councillor for the ward of Cressington, as and Independent, in the Liverpool Council election, 2007.

Alphonse-Mexil Etongo

Standing as a candidate of the Club 2002 – Party for the Unity of the Republic, Etongo ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the National Assembly in the June–August 2007 parliamentary election.

Andrew Bridgen

Bridgen is separated from Jackie, who was a Conservative councillor for the Oakthorpe and Donisthorpe ward of North West Leicestershire District Council from 2007 until losing her seat in 2011.

Ann Mallek

Mallek was elected supervisor in the 2007 Virginia elections alongside state representatives.

Australia Card

However, the Howard Government was unable to implement the scheme before their electoral defeat in 2007.

Brian Moran

Moran spent the better part of 2006 and 2007 traveling the state to recruit and support House candidates for the 2007 election, when all 100 Virginia House of Delegates seats were on the ballot (as in every other odd-numbered year).

CIGL-FM

During the 2007 provincial election morning show host Sean Kelly was absent from the air pending the results of the vote on election day.

Dulwich, South Australia

The centre-right Liberal Party polls very well in the area with around 60% of the vote in the 2007 and 2010 federal elections .

Enhanced geothermal system

On 30 May 2007, then Australian opposition environmental spokesperson and former Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts Peter Garrett announced that if elected at the 2007 Australian Federal Election, the Australian Labor Party would use taxpayer money to subsidise putting the necessary drilling rigs in place.

Fishergate

In the 2003 local elections, the Green Party made its breakthrough in York, winning both Fishergate council seats by a significant majority and these seats were held in the 2007 local election.

Gardanne

Voting is usually towards the left-wing, although rather uncharacteristically Nicolas Sarkozy gained 53.1% of the vote in the second round of the French presidential election, 2007.

Georgia's 24th state senate district special election, 2007

A special election was held in Georgia's 24th state senate district on June 19, 2007 to replace State Senator Jim Whitehead, who resigned from the seat to run for US Congress in Georgia's 10th congressional district's special election.

Greg Piper

Piper was elected as the Member for Lake Macquarie at the 2007 general election.

History of MSNBC: 1996–2007

Former CNN chief Rick Kaplan was hired to run MSNBC, replacing Erik Sorenson as President at the helm of the last-place cable news network.

January 2007 in Oceania

Australian Federal Election

Louis Champagne

He is best known for controversial remarks he made during the 2007 Quebec election campaign, when he interviewed Lac-Saint-Jean Parti Québécois candidate Alexandre Cloutier on February 19, 2007.

Mailhac

Its mayor, Gérard Schivardi, was a candidate in the French presidential election of 2007 but lost the election.

Margaret Vanderhye

She was the Democratic nominee in the 2007 Virginia general election to fill the seat held by retiring incumbent Republican Vince Callahan, defeating Republican businessman Dave Hunt in the general election on November 6, 2007.

Mario Racco

During the provincial election of 2007, Racco was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Peter Shurman.

Mezhyhirya Monastery

The newspaper notes that at the same time, July 9, at the website of the President appeared another document - an order in which he obliged the prime-minister to execute the decision of the RNBO and secure the financing of early elections.

Minimum wage in the United States

The wage increase was signed into law on May 25, 2007, as a rider to the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007.

Mortgage belt

Mortgage belt areas played a significant role in the 2007 election where Labor won back many mortgage belt Liberal strongholds won in the 1996 election due to general disaffection with the incumbent government as well as high interest rates.

Patrick Gaubert

Gaubert was one of six Members of the European Parliament who participated in the European Union's observer mission in Togo for the October 2007 Togolese parliamentary election.

Paul McKeever

Under McKeever's leadership, the Freedom Party of Ontario nominated 24 candidates in the 2003 provincial election and 15 candidates in the 2007 provincial election.

People Before Profit Alliance

People Before Profit unsuccessfully ran one candidate, Sean Mitchell, in the 2007 Northern Ireland Assembly election, polling 774 first preferences in the Belfast West constituency.

Pete Hodgson

In May 2007, Hodgson briefed the Welsh Labour Party's executive on the practicalities of co-operation between Welsh parties outside a formal coalition, after the 2007 Welsh Assembly elections led to a Labour minority government looking likely.

Philip Ozouf

Philip Ozouf Sr, Constable of the Parish of St Saviour Jersey, Channel Islands, see Jersey constable election, 2007

Reggiane Re.2007

After the war, Longhi tried to conduct experiments with two Junkers Jumo 004 engines that were left in Udine airport after the German defeat.

Same-sex marriage in the Australian Capital Territory

In December 2007, following the 2007 election and the newly elected Labor Government, discussions about reintroducing a revised civil partnerships bill began again.

Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997–2007

The album was released following Idlewild's split from Parlophone/EMI, and, as a result, only features two songs from 2007's Make Another World, which was released through Sequel Records.

Secular Party of Australia

The party contested the 2007 Federal Australian election by fielding candidates for each Australian state's representation in the Senate under the campaign slogan "Don't Let The Church Govern Australia - Keep Religion Out of Politics".

Sylvia Jones

She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 provincial election, representing the riding of Dufferin—Caledon.

Tariff

In the leadup to the 2007 Australian Federal election, the Australian Labor Party announced it would undertake a review of Australian car tariffs if elected.

There's No Place I'd Rather Be

Along with Will you, it serves as the official theme to the National Day Parade in 2007.

Togetherness Supreme

After a contested presidential election (Kenyan presidential election of December 2007), the slums erupt in violence and Kamau's world collapses around him.

Tony Ronaldson

Due to this and after a number of lacklustre performances, he left the Wildcats after the 2006/07 season and signed with the New Zealand Breakers.

Trade Air

In November 2007, Trade Air operated flights with their Fokker 100 aircraft in Australia, transporting journalists as one of two dedicated carriers for the Australian federal elections.

Valdis Dombrovskis

Dombrovskis was also one of six Members of the European Parliament participating in the European Union's observer mission in Togo for the October 2007 Togolese parliamentary election.

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003–2007

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003–2007 is a medical textbook published in July, 2008 by the United States Army and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center's Borden Institute, with a foreword by reporter Bob Woodruff, who was severely injured in the Iraq War in 2006.


2006–07 Libyan Premier League

~ Al Charara had all matches annulled on January 8, 2007, and were relegated to the Libyan Second Division.

2007–08 Serie D

The nine division winners were automatically promoted to Serie C2 for the 2008-09 season, while the two last-placed teams were automatically relegated to Eccellenza.

Alejandro Da Silva

In 2005 Da Silva returned to Paraguay to rejoin Cerro Porteño where he played until his transfer to Newell's Old Boys in 2007.

Ali al-Omair

On December 10, 2007, the parliament passed a bill, supported by Al-Omair and Faisal Al-Muslim Al-Otaib, which amended the penal code so that anyone "imitating the appearance of a member of the opposite sex" could be jailed for up to a year or fined up to 1,000 dinars.

Arms and Sleepers

Black Paris 86 (2007, CD Expect Candy Records, 2x12" Ericrock)

BrightQube

BrightQube was started in 2007 by Lee Corkran, a decorated combat photographer for the United States Air Force.

China Lake Grenade Launcher

In June 2007, a taping of an episode of the popular military technology program, Weaponology was filmed which announced that Trident had been approached by a U.S. company seeking to license their intellectual property in exchange for a royalty on each weapon produced.

Corey Lynch

Lynch played collegiate ball at Appalachian State University from 2003 to 2007, helping his Mountaineers win 3 back-to-back national championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007 .

Dane Looker

The head coach of the Rams during 2006, 2007, and 2008 seasons was Scott Linehan, for whom Looker had previously played at the University of Washington.

Gidroplan Tsikada

It was followed in 2007 by the Tsikada-M or Sky Wind 1 which had more powerful Jabiru engines and modifications to the fuselage and cabin, the undercarriage and the control systems.

Greg Cipes

The song "Rescue" on the band's 2007 debut release Conscious Revolution features teenage pop star Jesse McCartney.

H. David Kotz

In December 2007, Kotz next became the Inspector General at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), following the resignation of his predecessor, Walter Stachnik, who stepped down after a Senate report criticized his performance.

Hill Top, Cumbria

In 2007 a replica of Hill Top was built in a children's zoo near the grounds of Daito Bunka University in Tokyo, Japan.

Hussein Dokmak

Hussein Dokmak (born on December 13, 1981 in Lebanon - died on June 13, 2007 in Beirut, Lebanon) was an association football player who died from the results of a car bomb outside the Al Manara Stadium in which Lebanese politician Walid Eido was killed.

India at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

Negi's involvement and the Gold inspired the successful 2007 Shahrukh Khan film about women's field hockey, Chak De India.

Isaac Baron

Playing under the screen names of "westmenloAA" on PokerStars and "Isaac Baron" on Full Tilt Poker, Baron's online winnings exceeded $1,000,000 in 2007, including a win in the PokerStars weekly Sunday Million tournament in January for $254,000.

J.B. Mauney

He joined the PBR full-time in 2007 and finished in 3rd place behind Justin McBride and Guilherme Marchi that year.

Jack Blumenau

As the Bell Rings (2007 episodes O Romeo and A Touch of Class, Disney Channel UK) - Tinker

Janil Puthucheary

Since 2007, he has also been an Assistant Professor and Medical Director for Faculty Development at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School.

Jeanie Descombes

In recognition of her contribution, in 2007 the Aussie Hearts sponsored her to go to Australia where she conducted many clinics and showed her AAGPBL PowerPoint presentation to hundreds of Aussie women ball players.

Jibou Botanical Garden

The works for the organization of the Botanical Garden from Jibou started between the years 1959-1968, when Vasile Fati (1932-2007), a biology teacher, with the students and with the other teachers manages to prove that the parks around Wesselényi Castle, where the high school was functioning is appropriate for a botanical garden.

Junior Fernándes

Later, in 2007, he was sent on loan to Municipal Mejillones (another third division team) after Cobreloa gave up their reserve team.

Karen Dunbar

Over Christmas 2007, Dunbar made her first appearance in pantomime, at the King's Theatre in Glasgow, playing Nanny Begood in Sleeping Beauty.

Keena Young

In 2007, Young had a short stint with Spotter Leuven, a professional team in Belgium, before joining Mobis Phoebus of the Korean Basketball League (in South Korea).

League Managers Association

The LMA added their name to a series of football management simulation games, LMA Manager series, for the PlayStation 2, and for 2007 the PC.

Left Alone

Dead American Radio, Hellcat Records, 2006 (vinyl release by Durty Mick Records, 2007)

Main Intequam Loonga

Footage from this film was used in the 2007 film Apne also starring Dharmendra as a retired boxer.

Meldrum

Their second album, Blowin' Up the Machine (produced by Toby Wright), was released through Frontiers in Europe on May 11, 2007, and in the U.S. on September 11, 2007.

Michael Walrath

WGI Group has invested in more than 13 companies since 2007, including Taboola, Optimal, Inc. and Yext.

Modular Recordings

An office in Los Angeles followed in 2007, along with the signing of new acts including Ghostwood, Plug-In City and The Whitest Boy Alive.

Moni Kumar Subba

In 2007, the Central Bureau of Investigation told the Supreme Court of India that Subba's nationality was in doubt, and that existing citizenship proofs were forged.

OTE

In 2007 Marfin Investment Group acquired 20% of the company, and in March 2008 sold it to Germany's Deutsche Telekom which later increased its stake to 25% plus one vote, matching that of the state.

Palestinian political violence

The group's leader Abu Youssef Sharqieh was captured by Lebanese forces during the 2007 conflict in Palestinian refugee camps.

Philip Schultz

He is the author of several collections of poetry, including The God of Loneliness, Selected and New Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010); Failure (Harcourt, 2007), winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Living in the Past (Harcourt, 2004); and The Holy Worm of Praise (Harcourt, 2002).

Rauf Inileev

On November 28, 2007 AFC named Rauf Inileev as AFC Asian Coach of Year for impressive campaign of national team at 2007 AFC Asian Cup.

Richard Langmead

He retired as a player in 2007 and began coaching at Old Illtydians RFC.

Road debris

MotorStorm (2007) has mud that flies around and gets painted accurately onto the body of each vehicle in real-time.

Ronato Alcano

In an attempt to defend his title at the 2007 World Nine-ball Championship, Alcano was bested in the last 64 by Daryl Peach of the United Kingdom who ultimately won the title.

Self Destruction Blues

"Dead By X-Mas" has been covered by the Japanese hardcore band The Piass in 1994, the US punk band The Hillstreet Stranglers in 2005, the British electro group Sohodolls in 2007 and the Finnish rockabilly band Big Daddy & Rockin’ Combo in 2008.

Speaker of the Saeima

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Stephen Revere

Revere has appeared on a number of Korean TV shows, including English Conversation (EBS, 2001–2003) and The World Is Wide (세상은 넓다, KBS1 2006-2007).

Sugar Babies

The Sugar Babies, a 2007 documentary feature film about the history of sugar production

Symphonic Anime Orchestra

Founded in 2005, the orchestra has performed at the Nan Desu Kan anime convention 2005, 2006 and 2007.

The Four Year Plan

The film chronicles the take over of the nearly bankrupt club in 2007 by a consortium of billionaires and their effort to promote the team to the Premier League by 2011.

The Great Divorce

In 2007 the Magis Theatre Company of New York City presented their adaptation in an off-Broadway run at Theatre 315 in the Theatre District with music by award-winning composer Elizabeth Swados and puppets by Ralph Lee.

Thérèse Bermingham

In 2007, Bermingham attended the 21st World Scout Jamboree and joined 350 young people-a boy and a girl from almost every country-for a sunrise ceremony at Brownsea Island, off the coast of Dorset to mark the centenary of Scouting.

Vassily Sinaisky

Sinaisky was principal conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra from January 2007 through the 2010-2011 season.

Vortigern

The film The Last Legion (2007), based in part on the novel of the same name (2002) by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, features a highly fictionalized portrayal of Vortigern under the pseudo-authentic name Vortgyn.

Yeon Woo-jin

Kim Bong-hee began his career as a fashion model at the 2007 Seoul Fashion Week and for jeans brand Evisu in 2008.