What happened onFebruary 9, 2007Friday Week 6

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The World in 2007 the year the iPhone arrived

By late 2007 there were about 3.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions, one for every two people on Earth. In a classroom of 30 kids, that is 15 phones.

Life back then

Most phones still had a keypad and a screen the size of a stamp. Netflix mailed DVDs in red envelopes, and renting a movie often meant a trip to the video store. The pound was worth two dollars, so British shoppers flew to New York and came home with full suitcases. Then the iPhone went on sale in June, and phones slowly began turning into pocket computers.

The year in 8 events

• 🎤Jan 9 Steve Jobs walks on stage and announces the iPhone. He calls it a phone, an iPod and an internet device in one.
• 🕯️Apr 16 A gunman kills 32 people at Virginia Tech, the deadliest school shooting in US history at the time.
• 💻Apr 27 Waves of cyberattacks start hitting Estonia's banks, media and government sites. It is one of the first online attacks on a whole country.
• 📱Jun 29 The iPhone goes on sale in the US. People camp outside stores for days to get one.
• 🏛️Jul 25 Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first woman president.
• 🏦Sep 14 Savers queue outside branches of Northern Rock to take their money out. It is the first run on a British bank in well over a century.
• ✈️Oct 25 The Airbus A380, the biggest airliner ever built, carries paying passengers for the first time, from Singapore to Sydney.
• 🕯️Dec 27 Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated at a campaign rally.

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