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2007
 
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After major damage by fire, the elegant Grade 2 house of West Hall is restored by the Bissell Thomas family See in Google maps   
2007
 
    
Apple's iPhone goes on sale in the USA and 270,000 are sold in the first thirty hours       
2007
 
   
Pratibha Patil is elected President of India, the first woman to hold the post      
2007
 
   
Barry Bonds breaks baseball's previous record, hitting his 756th home run      
2007
 
   
The civil rights group Reporters Without Borders demands improvement in civil rights abuses and censorship in China before the Beijing Olympics      
2007
 
    
Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party and prime minister of the United Kingdom       
2007
 
  
The Burmese government removes fuel subsidies, causing massive price rises for consumers     
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Demonstrations begin in Burma against the recent increase in fuel prices     
2007
 
  
Large numbers of monks in Burma march in support of the escalating nation-wide demonstrations against the government     
2007
 
  
Burmese security forces raid the monasteries and begin beating and arresting monks to terrify the population into submission