The 2007 Yazidi communities bombings occurred on August 14, 2007, when four coordinated suicide car bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Til Ezer (al-Qahtaniyah) and Siba Sheikh Khidir (al-Jazirah), in northern Iraq.
There were 796 people killed and at least 1,500 others wounded, making it the Iraq War's deadliest car bomb attack. It is also the fourth deadliest act of terrorism in history, after September 11 attacks in the United States, the Camp Speicher massacre in Iraq, and the Mai Kadra massacre in Ethiopia. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
2007Aug, 14
The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 334 people.
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- 9Jan
IPhone
Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco. - 29Jun
IPhone
Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone. - 12Jul
July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike
U.S. Army Apache helicopters perform airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet. - 4Aug
Phoenix (spacecraft)
NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched. - 18Sep
Saffron Revolution
Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.