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2 unusual facts about January 2007


Esala Teleni

Captain Esala Teleni is a Fijian naval officer, who currently serves as the Commissioner of the Fiji Police Force.

Pretty Good Dance Moves

Her vocal performances are featured on the earliest songs Pretty Good Dance Moves produced, which were written and recorded between January and May 2007.


Terrorism in Tajikistan

The warning followed a high profile raid on a training camp in Akto County, Xinjiang run by East Turkestan Islamic Movement members.


see also

2007 Balad aircraft crash

The 2007 Balad aircraft crash was a 9 January 2007 airplane incident involving an Antonov An-26 airliner, which crashed while attempting to land at the U.S. military base in Balad, Iraq.

2007 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III

The Division III Qualiciation tournament was held on 28 January 2007 in İzmit, Turkey.

Angelspit

The band self-released their debut studio album, Krankhaus on 6 June 2006, and re-released it on 30 January 2007 with a bonus remix album, entitled Surgically Atoned, and in the US on Dancing Ferret Discs.

Commonwealth Edison

In January 2007, the Chicago Tribune reported that Commonwealth Edison was behind Consumers Organized for Reliable Electricity (CORE), an organization that had been arguing against a proposed statewide freeze in electricity rates.

DaniWeb

In January 2007, DaniWeb staff writer Davey Winder published a story that TomTom GPS devices were being released from the factory virus infected.

Darren Lapthorne

In January 2007 he achieved his greatest success by winning the Australian National Road Race Championships.

Dazhou protests of 2007

Dazhou, Sichuan gained notoriety for the corruption of Dazhu County (大竹) officials that caused mass a protest in January 2007.

El Benny

It received its official U.S. premiere at the "Palm Springs International Film Festival" on 6 January 2007, and its east coast premiere at the Miami International Film Festival in March 2007.

Garry Betty

Charles Garrett "Garry" Betty (4 March 1957 – 2 January 2007) was President and CEO of EarthLink, a large American Internet service provider, from 1996 until his death.

Glitch art

"Point and Shoot: Remediating Photography in Gamespace." Games and Culture Volume 2, Number 1 (January 2007): 49-58.

Grid-oriented storage

Starting in January 2007, demonstrations were presented at Princeton University, Cambridge University Computer Lab and others.

Hector Hatch

While visiting New Zealand on 4 January 2007, the Interim Military Government (which had seized power in a coup d'état on 5 December 2006) named Hatch to head the Public Service Commission, replacing Stuart Huggett, who was dismissed for non-cooperation with the military regime.

Honey to the B

The single "Honey to the Bee" re-entered at number 17 in the official UK Singles Chart on 21 January 2007, 8 years after initial release, thanks to efforts by BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles.

Hucknall Town F.C.

In January 2007, Wilson was sacked as manager, and former Welsh international player Andy Legg was appointed as the new player-manager.

Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon

Charles Peregrine Courtenay, Lord Courtenay (b. 1975), who is married to Allison Joy, Lady Courtenay, (A.J.) née Langer, with 2 children: a daughter, The Hon. Joscelyn Skye Courtenay (b. 31 January 2007), and a son, The Hon.

Inta Ruka

Until January 2007, her photographs were shown with works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Boris Mikhailov and others in the exhibition "In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century" at the Barbican Arts Centre in London.

Jamie Wilson

Wilson represented Louisiana in the Miss America 2007 pageant broadcast live from the Theatre for the Performing Arts on the Las Vegas Strip on 29 January 2007 but did not win any preliminary awards or place in the final competition.

Jan Verhaas

On 21 January 2007, he was the referee of the final of the Masters between Ronnie O'Sullivan and Ding Junhui, in which he ejected at least one fan from Wembley Arena for heckling the 19-year-old Chinese player.

Janet Ellis

Despite being 'saved' by Stewart Copeland on the first night, on 3 January 2007 she was the second celebrity to be eliminated, after judge CeCe Sammy described her as having the vocal characteristics of "a cat on speed".

Jared Paul Stern

In January 2007, the Associated Press ran a story saying that the federal investigation into Stern had been dropped.

Jason Donoghue

Following another sixteen–month stint as Shane Swanson on Hollyoaks (2005–07) which ended in January 2007 after Donoghue was axed, Donoghue was cast in the role of Dominic Pearce in the upcoming science-fiction television series Outlanders, making his first appearance as one of the six original protagonists in the series in the pilot episode.

Jimmy Toner

He was seriously injured in a coach crash on the M25 motorway near London on 4 January 2007 in which his wife Christine was killed.

Jocelyn Oxlade

She was on the cover of the January 2007 FHM Philippines issue with Gwen Garci, and on the cover of the FHM Philippines December 2007 issue with the rest of the Kitty Girls.

Joel Veitch

In January 2007, Veitch reached a settlement with Coca-Cola after they used music and video very similar to 7 Seconds of Love's song 'Ninja' on one of their adverts in Argentina without permission.

Kim Il-sung Socialist Youth League

On 4 January 2007, in Pyongyang, Kim Song Chol, the First Secretary of the Pyongyang Municipal People's Committee of the KYSL gave a speech at a mass rally, with other high government officials, praising Songun Korea.

Linda Bresonik

She eventually returned to the national team at the Four Nations Tournament in January 2007 and was part of Germany's squad that won the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Mohammad Ashraf Siddiqui

In January 2007, Federal Court judge Michael L. Phelan ruled that it was patently unreasonable for the IRB to have suggested that the MQM was a terrorist organisation in Siddiqui's case, when they had offered the opposite opinion in the earlier case.

Nokia N76

It was introduced at the Las Vegas CES 2007 in January 2007 and was launched on 5 May 2007 with a sales price of 390 EUR.

Onex Corporation

In January 2007, Onex signed a deal to acquire Eastman Kodak's medical imaging unit, including a Kodak factory in White City, Oregon.

Operation Clambake

The Sunday Times used Operation Clambake's resources while doing a January 2007 story on Narconon and its links to the Church of Scientology.

Oregon Iron Works

In 2007, the company entered the field of streetcar (tram) manufacturing, after being awarded a contract, in January 2007, by the City of Portland for the provision of a prototype U.S.-manufactured streetcar for the Portland Streetcar system.

Pontus Wernbloom

On 7 January 2007, he was picked for the Swedish national team's January Tour in South America, and he made his debut on 18 January against Ecuador.

Raneem El Weleily

Since January 2007 Raneem is being coached by Coach Cherine Adel 5 days a week in Cairo coupled with weekday time with Amir Wagih.

Richard Hertling

Richard Hertling was Acting United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs from January 2007 to July 2007.

Saint Regis University

On 31 January 2007, the New York City Department of Investigation reported that several members of the New York City Fire Department had used "phony degrees" from St. Regis University in order to qualify for promotions.

Setnakhte

In a mid-January 2007 issue of the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram, however, Egyptian antiquity officials announced that a recently discovered and well preserved quartz stela belonging to the High Priest of Amun Bakenkhunsu was explicitly dated to Year 4 of Setnakhte's reign.

Shamima Ali

Ali claimed that her own intervention had secured the release from military custody of Richard Naidu, a prominent lawyer who was detained on 23 January 2007 for making what the Military called "inciteful" comments on Radio New Zealand.

Simon Bræmer

When AaB bought Brazilian forward José Mota in January 2007, Bræmer announced his desire to leave AaB.

Singapore Think Tanks

The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) was inaugurated on 1 January 2007 as an autonomous School within the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), upgraded from its previous incarnation as the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), which was established in 1996.

Spandan Daftary

Spandan "Spoon" Daftary (born April 13, 1981 in New Castle, Pennsylvania) is a 2-time Emmy Award–winning associate producer, whose most recent work includes ESPN2's Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, which was cancelled by the network in January 2007.

Taking the Flak

Taking The Flak was filmed around Arusha, Tanzania, in the autumn of 2008 although episode one (the pilot) was filmed in January 2007 in Nakuru, Kenya, with a working title of The Calais Rules.

Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens

On 21 January 2007, a group of Hellenic neopagans held a ceremony honoring Zeus on the grounds of the temple.

The Black Maria

The band has played with Queens of the Stone Age, MxPx, The Distillers, Goldfinger, Paramore, Alexisonfire, Rise Against, Silverstein, The Alkaline Trio, The Lawrence Arms, Chevelle, Taproot, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and joined Evanescence on their Canadian tour in January 2007 which also included Stone Sour.

TV 2 Nyhetskanalen

Terje Svabø and Mah-Rukh Ali lead the first ordinary broadcast on 15 January 2007 at 12 noon.

United States House of Representatives elections in New Hampshire, 2004

Representatives are elected for two-year terms; those elected served in the 109th Congress from January 2005 until January 2007.

Vassily Sinaisky

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

VivoCity

The 2007 Countdown, held from 31 December 2006 to 1 January 2007, was held at the rooftop amphitheatre and included performances by well-known homegrown artists from MediaCorp Channel 5 and 8, as well as the Top 11 finalists of the second season of Singapore Idol.

Warren Chisum

During the January 2007 speaker's race between Craddick and Jim Pitts of Waxahachie, Chisum led the effort to re-elect the Speaker.

WTMM

WGDJ, a radio station (1300 AM) licensed to Rensselaer, New York, United States, which used the call sign WTMM from August 1997 to January 2007 and from August 2007 to February 2008