• January 9 - Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone.
  

• June 10 - "The Sopranos" series finale on HBO (infamous "cut to black" ending).
  

• September 5 - Three terrorists suspected to be a part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
  

• September 24 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University.
  

• October 5 - After years of angry denials, triple gold medal winning American sprinter Marion Jones admits she used steroids 2000-01. She pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators and announced her retirement during a tearful apology. Her medals were returned to USOC.
  

• October 15 - Fox Business Network (FBN), American financial cable network is launched.
  

• October 18 - After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100, including 20 police officers. Bhutto escapes uninjured. (* see Dec. 27)
  

• November 1 - 5-time Grand Slam tennis winner Martina Hingis admits testing positive for cocaine during Wimbledon. She maintained her innocence but retired from tennis. She did not desire to fight with anti-doping authorities.
  

• December 13 - Major League Baseball publicly released The Mitchell Report listing the names of 89 players that have used anabolic steroids and human growth hormones. Notable players named: Roger Clemens and Miguel Tejada.
  

• December 27 - Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated by a suicide bomber in Rawalpindi.
  

• December 31 - The Massive Big Dig (tunnel project) construction in Boston, Massachusetts ended.

Notable Deaths in Sports-

* Vuelta a Espana Champion: Angelo Conterno (1925-2007) Italian professional road racing cyclist during the 1950s and early 1960s. He is most famous for becoming the first Italian to win the Vuelta a Espana in 1956. (VaE 1956)

* Vuelta a Espana/World Road Race Champion: Jean Stablinski (1932-2007) French professional cyclist from a family of Polish immigrants. He was the World Road Race Champion in 1962 and won the 1958 Vuelta a Espana. Jean died at the age of 75.

* Giro d’Italia Champion: Carlo Clerici (1929-2007) Swiss road cyclist, who won the 1954 Giro d'Italia, he died at 77.

Bowie Kuhn (1926-2007) American Baseball HOF executive, he was MLB Commissioner from 1969 to 1984. He died of pneumonia at 80.

Phil Rizzuto (1917-2007) Baseball HOF NY Yankees shortstop (5 x MLB All-Star; 7 x World Series; AL MVP 1950) and longtime baseball announcer (WCBS radio, WPIX-TV), died at 89.

Notable Deaths -

Anna Nicole Smith (1967-2007) American model, Playboy playmate (May 1992, Playmate of the Year 1993) and tabloid fixture. She died of a prescription drug overdose at 39.

Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007) First Lady of the United States, know for the phrase “Don’t Mess with Texas!”

Evel Knievel (1938-2007) motorcycle daredevil, who tried to jump over the Snake River Canyon, died of pulmonary disease at 69.

 

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