Events in April 2007
April 1: Maoists join the interim Nepal Parliament headed by Girija Prasad Koirala re-elected Prime Minister for the sixth time.
April 2: An earthquake measuring 8 on the Richter Scale unleashes a tsunami strike in Solomon Islands swallowing entire villages and leaves 28 dead.
The U.S. and South Korea agree on the biggest-ever U.S. trade pact for 15 years.
The Ukrainian President, Viktor Yushchenko, dissolves Parliament. House refuses to disband and sacks poll panel.
A French Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) train beats a world speed record by hurtling down a track at 574.8 kmph between Preny near Metz in the east and Bezannes near Reims in the Champagne region.
April 4: Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Italy sign a deal on a 1,400 km long Pan European Oil Pipeline.
April 7: Mohammed, Sadeer Saleem and Waheed Ali are charged with plotting with the suicide bombers who killed 52 commuters in London on July 7, 2005.
U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi blasts off on a Soyuz rocket from Baikanur, Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station becoming the world’s fifth space tourist.
April 8: Taliban militants behead an Afghan journalist Ajmal Naqshbandi.
April 9: Presidential polls are peaceful in Timor Leste (formerly East Timor).
Iran begins industrial scale nuclear fuel production at its Natanz uranium enrichment facility.
April 10: Pakistan gives its nod for a gas-sharing agreement with India in the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline project.
Nepal’s Government approves Bill giving powers to the Interim Legislature to abolish the monarchy.
April 12: At least eight persons are killed in a stunning assault by a suspected suicide bomber at the Iraqi Parliament cafeteria.
Fiji military leader Frank Bainimarama suspends the Great Council of Chiefs.
April 13: The World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz, lands in trouble for promoting girlfriend Shaha Riza and raising salary shortly after taking office in 2005.
April 16: Thirtytwo persons are killed by a South Korean student Seung-Hui Cho in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg in the deadliest campus shooting in the U.S. He commits suicide. G.V. Loganathan, an Indian professor and Minal Panchal an Indian student are among the slain.
April 18: At least 190 persons are killed in Baghdad in a string of bombings.
A Chinese train designed to run at speeds up to 250 km per hour leaves Shanghai for Suzhou ushering in the era of high speed rail travel.
April 19: Romania’s Parliament gives nod for an impeachment proposal against the President Traian Basescu.
April 20: William A. Phillips, a NASA contract engineer kills fellow employee David Beverly before shooting himself dead at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas. Another hostage Francelia Cranshaw is found unharmed.
The Roman Catholic Church buries the concept of limbo.
April 21: Nigerians cast votes in presidential polls. Bid to blow up Electoral Commission headquarters in the capital Abuja.
Bhutan holds mock polls meant as a dress rehearsal for the 2008 elections.
April 22: Eighty per cent voting in French presidential polls beating a 40-year record. Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal make it to the May 6 run-off.
April 23: Boris Yeltsin (76), former Russian President who dismantled the Soviet Union dies of a heart attack.
British bank Barclays Plc agrees to buy Dutch ABN-AMRO for about $91 billion in the world’s biggest bank takeover.
David Halberstam (73), a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist dies in a car crash south of San Francisco.
April 24: The Sri Lankan military thwarts an air attack by the LTTE near the Palaly Air Force base. Six soldiers die in Tiger firing at a military camp near the base.
Umaru Yar’Adua of the ruling People’s Democratic Party wins the Nigerian presidential election.
April 25: The European Union is an “inspirational model” worthy of emulation by every region of the world, says the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
April 26: India and Greece sign two agreements - on cooperation in science and technology and business investment protection in Athens in the presence of Presidents A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Karolos Papoulias.
British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking floats weightless on a zero-gravity jet.
April 27: Saudi Arabia foils bid to attack oil installations and arrests 172 terror suspects besides seizing a large cache of weapons, $32.4 million in cash.
Yang Jiechi, a former ambassador to the U.S. is appointed China’s Foreign Minister. Non-communist Wan Gang is nominated Minister of Science and Technology.
April 28: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao escapes bid on life in a suicide bombing at a rally in Charsadda town, North West Frontier Province which claims 28 lives.
April 29: The LTTE launches its third aerial attack hitting two fuel depots near Colombo.
April 30: Malians cast votes in presidential polls.
The Irish Parliament is dissolved by the President Mary McAleese.
Venezuela decides to pull out of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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