Defne's HW.11 homework timeline

By Defne Akkok

  • Adam Air Flight 574, crashed

    Adam Air Flight 574 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight between the Indonesian cities of Surabaya and Manado, flight 574 crashed in Sulawesi on 1 January 2007 leaving 102 dead.

  • Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone

    Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone to the public on January 9. The phone that was the same as other phones, except instead of pushing buttons to make it work, you rubbed your finger around the screen. TIME magazine announced the iPhone "best invention of the year". Within less than 3 months of its release, more than 1 million units were sold.

  • Baghdad market bombing

    Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 and injures a further 339.

  • 2007 US Election

    Senator Barack Obama of Illinois declares his candidacy for President of the United States of America.

  • First Earth Hour

    In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people took part in the first earth hour.

  • Virginia Tech Shooting

    32 people are killed in the Virginia Tech massacre on the premises of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksberg .

  • Mississippi River Bridge Collapses

    Disaster struck in the US state of Minnesota when a road bridge over the Mississippi collapsed during the evening rush hour killing 13 people. About 50 vehicles were thrown into the water when the bridge suddenly gave way.

  • NASA's Phoenix Spaceship Is Launched

    Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program. The Phoenix lander descended on Mars on May 25, 2008. Mission scientists used instruments aboard the lander to search for environments suitable for microbial life on Mars, and to research the history of water there. The total mission cost was about US $386 million, which includes cost of the launch.

  • Wild Fires in Southern California

    More than 1 million people evacuated and over 1600 homes and businesses destroyed.

  • Oklahoma Ice Storm

    In early December 2007 Oklahoma received a significant amount of freezing rain that accumulated on trees, power lines and pretty much everything. The state was under ice that measures 3 inches thick. 29 deaths and the damage to homes was estimated at over $780 million.