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1 JANUARY: Seventeen years after the fall of Communism, Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, an event which led to tens of thousands of people attending concerts in the two capital cities, Sofia and Bucharest.
2 JANUARY: Former US president Gerald Ford's state funeral takes place at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.See the full content of this document
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2007 at a Glance: January - March
3 JANUARY: Fourteen-year-old Michael Perham becomes the youngest person to sail single-handedly across the Atlantic Ocean, when he completes a six-week voyage from Gibraltar by docking in Antigua.
5 JANUARY: Australia beat England by ten wickets in the final Ashes Test match. The 5-0 whitewash is only the second in the history of the long-running series.David Howell, 16, becomes the UK's youngest chess grandmaster.6 JANUARY: The British Army raises its maximum recruitment age from 26 to 33.8 JANUARY: An energy dispute between Russia and Belarus escalates when the Russian state-owned company, Transneft, stops pumping oil into the Druzhba pipeline which runs into Belarus because Belarus was siphoning the oil without mutual agreeme...See the full content of this document
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