Timeline May 2007

Events in May 2007 13

• 1995 – 2007 Premiere dame of France First lady, twelve years During Jacques Chirac's presidency Bernadette serves as première dame, making the Élysée a place where her approval carried weight. Witty but formidable, she was hugely popular with the French public.
• 2007 2007 World Snooker Championship John Higgins Title 2 Winner: John Higgins; Runner-up: Mark Selby. Score: 18–13.
• 2007 Estonia cyberattacks Sustained DDoS campaign hits a NATO member state A wave of denial-of-service attacks disrupted Estonian government, bank, and media websites following a dispute with Russia over relocation of a Soviet-era war memorial. It is widely cited as an early example of state-linked cyberwarfare against a country's infrastructure.
• 2007 Disappearance of Madeleine McCann Three-year-old vanishes from Portuguese holiday resort British toddler Madeleine McCann disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while her parents dined nearby. The case became one of the most widely publicized missing-person investigations of the decade and remains unsolved.
• 2007 Greensburg, Kansas tornado EF5 tornado destroys most of the town An EF5 tornado nearly a mile wide struck Greensburg, Kansas, destroying roughly 95% of the town and killing 11 people. It was the first tornado officially rated EF5 under the newly adopted Enhanced Fujita Scale.
• 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy elected President of France Defeats Ségolène Royal in runoff vote Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidential runoff with about 53% of the vote, defeating Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal. He took office on 16 May 2007, succeeding Jacques Chirac.
• 2007 Leaves the Elysee Succeeded by Sarkozy Chirac leaves the presidency on 16 May 2007, succeeded by Nicolas Sarkozy, after twelve years in office. In 2011 a Paris court convicts him of misuse of public funds from his time as mayor.
• 2007 Amy Winehouse marries Blake Fielder-Civil Miami A turbulent marriage that ends in 2009.
• 2007 AC Milan wins the Champions League Italian club beats Liverpool in Athens final AC Milan defeated Liverpool 2–1 in the UEFA Champions League final in Athens, avenging their defeat to the same opponent in the 2005 final. It was Milan's seventh European Cup title.
• 2007 Facebook Platform launched Opens Facebook to third-party applications Facebook launched a platform allowing outside developers to build applications on the social network, spurring a wave of social gaming and app development. The move helped cement Facebook as a broader web platform rather than a standalone site.
• 2007 Google Street View launched Panoramic street-level imagery added to Google Maps Google introduced Street View, initially covering a handful of US cities with 360-degree street-level photography. It later expanded worldwide and became a standard mapping feature.
• 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End #1 film of 2007 — $963m worldwide Directed by Gore Verbinski. Captain Jack Sparrow and allies must rescue him from Davy Jones' Locker to face the East India Trading Company.
• 2007 – 2008 The Police reunion tour 30th anniversary One of the highest-grossing tours ever, ending at Madison Square Garden.