becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after a Leadership Election June 28 – 2007 European heat wave: in the aftermath of Greece's worst heat wave in a century, at least 11 people are reported dead from heatstroke, approximately 200 wildfires break out nationwide, and the country's electricity grid nearly collapses due to record breaking demand. June 29 – The iPhone, the first modern smartphone, is released in the United States. It was later released in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Republic of Ireland and Austria in November 2007. July July 4 – The International Olympic Committee awards Sochi the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. July 7 – Live Earth Concerts are held in nine major cities around the world to raise environmental awareness. July 17 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054 an Airbus A320-233 overruns the runway of São Paulo–Congonhas Airport runway 35L flies over Avenida Washington Luís and crashes into TAM Express building and a shell filling station adjacent to the TAM Express building. All 187 passengers and crew are killed instantly. 12 people inside the TAM Express and the Shell filling station are also killed. July 24 – Five Bulgarian nurses are released from Libyan prison after eight and a half years spent behind bars in Benghazi and Tripoli, marking the end of the so-called "HIV trial in Libya". July 31 – Operation Banner comes to an end, thus ending the longest continuous deployment in British military history. August August 4 – The Phoenix spacecraft is launched toward Mars to study its north pole. August 9 – The French global bank BNP Paribas in the United Kingdom blocks withdrawals from three hedge funds heavily committed in sub-prime mortgages, signaling the financial crisis of 2007–2008. August 14 – Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Qahtaniya, northern Iraq. August 15 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing at least 519 people, injuring more than 1,300, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean. September September 6 – Israeli Air Force airplanes attack a suspected nuclear reactor in Syria in an airstrike. September 13 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. September 14 – The SELENE spacecraft launches, with its objective being to study the Moon. September 20 – The Universal Forum of Cultures opens in Monterrey, Mexico. September 25 – Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park in New