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August 2007

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• August 30: The Taliban release the remaining South Korean hostages in return for South Korea withdrawing its 200 non-combat troops within the year and suspending missionary work in Afghanistan.
• August 28: Abdullah Gül (pictured) is elected as the eleventh President of Turkey by the Turkish Parliament, after secularist concerns delayed his initial candidacy.
  • Image:Abdullah Gül (Brasília, 19.1.2005).jpeg Abdullah Gül
• August 27: United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announces his resignation, after several controversies over his actions.
• August 25: Twin bombings kill more than forty people in Hyderabad, India, and nineteen unexploded bombs are found throughout the city.
• August 25: Ongoing floods (washed-out bridge pictured) in the midwestern United States claim at least twenty-six lives.
  • 100x100px|A washed-out bridge on Minnesota State Highway 74
• August 25: Greece declares a state of emergency as forest fires kill more than sixty people.
• August 25: Twin bombings kill more than forty people in Hyderabad, India, and nineteen unexploded bombs are found throughout the city.
• August 23: A ten-million-year-old fossil ape found in Ethiopia, Chororapithecus abyssinicus, may prove that the last common ancestor of gorillas and humans existed two million years earlier than previously thought.
• August 21: The Space Shuttle Endeavour safely returns from a mission to expand the International Space Station.
• August 19: Tropical cyclones: Hurricane Dean makes a second landfall near Tecolutla, Mexico after moving across the Yucatán Peninsula, while Typhoon Sepat moves across Taiwan and makes a second landfall in Fujian.
  • 100x100px|Hurricane Dean hitting the Yucatán Peninsula
• August 17: Hurricane Dean (pictured) enters the Caribbean Sea, intensifying into a Category 4 hurricane as it approaches Jamaica.
• August 16: NASA opts not to repair damaged thermal protective tiles on the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour, currently on a mission to expand the International Space Station.
  • 100x100px|Damaged TPS Tiles of Space Shuttle Endeavour
• August 15: The heaviest rainfall in 40 years causes massive flooding in North Korea that kills 200 and destroys 11% of the country's rice and corn fields.
• August 15: An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru, killing more than 500 and flattening more than 85,000 buildings.
• August 14: Four near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks in Kahtaniya, Iraq result in at least 550 deaths and another 1500 injuries; most of the victims belonged to the minority Yazidi religion.
• August 13: Yone Minagawa of Japan dies at 114, making Edna Parker of the United States, 106 days younger, the oldest living person in the world.
• August 10: Thermal protective tiles on the underside of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour, currently docked with the International Space Station for mission STS-118, are found to be damaged (pictured).
• August 9: The European Central Bank injects more than €150 billion of liquidity into the European financial system in two days, as stock markets worldwide slide in response to the United States subprime mortgage financial crisis.
• August 9: The Labour Party and its allies win a majority in the National Assembly of the Republic of the Congo.
• August 8: NASA launches Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour (pictured), carrying Barbara Morgan, the first Educator Astronaut in space, and six other astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station.
  • Image:STS-118 launch.jpg Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour for Mission STS-118
• August 8: Amid protests from FRETILIN, who have won the most seats in the recent parliamentary election, Xanana Gusmão (pictured) of the CNRT takes office as Prime Minister of East Timor.
  • 100x100px|Xanana Gusmão, the new Prime Minister of East Timor
• August 7: Two Russian aircraft are accused of violating Georgian airspace, with one firing an air-to-surface guided rocket onto Georgian territory, some 65 km north of Tbilisi.
• August 7: Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run, passing Hank Aaron for the career home run record in Major League Baseball.
• August 4: An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom prompts the banning of exports of livestock and other animal products from Great Britain.
• August 4: NASA launches the Phoenix spacecraft on a Delta II rocket, beginning a mission to Mars.
  • broken: Image:Phoenix Launch 2007Aug04 (KSC-07PD-2175) cropped.JPG Launch of the Phoenix spacecraft aboard a Delta II rocket
• August 3: Patriarch Teoctist I of the Romanian Orthodox Church dies of surgical complications after an operation for prostate adenoma and is buried in Bucharest.
• August 2: Russian MIR bathyscaphes perform the first crewed descent to the seabed at the North Pole in a bid to strengthen the claim for an extension of Russia's continental shelf.
• August 1: A series of floods on the Indian subcontinent leaves more than 2000 people dead and 20 million homeless, with the Gangetic plain in India and its delta in Bangladesh being the worst affected areas.
• August 1: A highway bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, collapses, sending more than fifty vehicles into the Mississippi River.
  • Image:I-35W bridge collapse TLR1.jpg I-35W Bridge collapse