What happened in 2007

“Irreplaceable”

Beyonce · 7 weeks at #1 in 2007

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1. Jan 6IrreplaceableBeyonce7 wks
2. Feb 24Say It RightNelly Furtado1 wk
3. Mar 3What Goes Around...Comes AroundJustin Timberlake1 wk
4. Mar 10This Is Why I'm HotMims2 wks
5. Mar 24GlamorousFergie Featuring Ludacris2 wks
6. Apr 7Don't MatterAkon2 wks
7. Apr 21Give It To MeTimbaland Featuring Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake2 wks
8. May 5GirlfriendAvril Lavigne1 wk
9. May 12Makes Me WonderMaroon 53 wks
10. May 26Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')T-Pain Featuring Yung Joc1 wk
11. Jun 9UmbrellaRihanna Featuring Jay-Z7 wks
12. Jul 28Hey There DelilahPlain White T's2 wks
13. Aug 11Beautiful GirlsSean Kingston4 wks
14. Sep 8Big Girls Don't CryFergie1 wk
15. Sep 15Crank That (Soulja Boy)Soulja Boy Tell'em7 wks
16. Sep 29StrongerKanye West1 wk
17. Nov 10Kiss KissChris Brown Featuring T-Pain3 wks
18. Dec 1No OneAlicia Keys5 wks

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 2007; weeks count only those in 2007.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 4Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government.
2. Jan 9Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
3. Jan 17The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's nuclear testing.
4. Jan 31Emergency officials in Boston mistakenly identified LED placards depicting characters from Aqua Teen Hunger Force as IEDs, causing a panic.
5. Apr 16In one of the deadliest shooting incidents in United States history, a gunman killed 32 people and wounded over 20 more before committing suicide at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
6. Jul 12Two U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopters conducted a series of air-to-ground attacks in Baghdad.
7. Aug 1Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, United States, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.
8. Aug 22The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.
9. Aug 29Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
10. Oct 9The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its all-time high of 14,164 points before rapidly declining due to the 2008 financial crisis.
11. Oct 21Finnish driver Kimi Räikkönen of Scuderia Ferrari won the Brazilian Grand Prix in Formula One. With this result, Räikkönen became world champion, surpassing McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso by one point in the drivers' standings.
12. Dec 13The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by the EU member states to amend both the Treaty of Rome and the Maastricht Treaty which together form the constitutional basis of the EU. The Treaty of Lisbon is effective from 1 December 2009.
13. Dec 20Elizabeth II becomes the oldest monarch in the history of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years and 243 days.
14. Dec 20Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art before being recovered about three weeks later.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  George W. Bush

• UK Prime Minister

  Tony Blair

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Stephen Harper

• President of France

  Nicolas Sarkozy

• German Chancellor

  Angela Merkel

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Shinzō Abe

• President of Russia

  Vladimir Putin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 2007, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Luke LittlerEnglish darts player · Jan 21
• Mirra AndreevaRussian tennis player · Apr 29
• Bryce JamesAmerican basketball player · Jun 14
• Elliana WalmsleyAmerican dancer · Jun 23
• Mason ThamesAmerican actor · Jul 10
• Lamine YamalSpanish footballer · Jul 13
• Cameron BoozerAmerican basketball player · Jul 18
• Franco MastantuonoArgentine footballer · Aug 14
• Ariana GreenblattAmerican actress · Aug 27
• Yoonchae JeungSouth Korean singer · Dec 6

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.