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February 27, 2007

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 21, 2007, covering February 27, 2007.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Infinity On High by Fall Out Boy

    Infinity On High

    Fall Out Boy

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  2. 2
    Album cover for Not Too Late by Norah Jones

    Not Too Late

    Norah Jones

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  3. 3
    Album cover for Daughtry by Daughtry

    Daughtry

    Daughtry

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    Peak
    1
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    12
  4. 4
    Album cover for Konvicted by Akon

    Konvicted

    Akon

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    Peak
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    13
  5. 5
    Album cover for Headstrong by Ashley Tisdale

    Headstrong

    Ashley Tisdale

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Notable Deaths

Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven

2007Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, German general (born 1914)[†]

Alexander Otto Hermann Wolfgang Bernd(t) Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven, was a Baltic German officer in the German Army during World War II. In 1956, he joined the German Federal Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, and rose to the rank of Generalleutnant.

Historical Events

2007Chinese stock bubble of 2007: The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest daily fall in ten years, following speculation about a crackdown on illegal share offerings and trading, and fears about accelerating inflation.[†]

The Chinese stock bubble of 2007 was the global stock market plunge of February 27, and November 2007, which wiped out hundreds of billions of market value. After rumors that governmental Chinese economic authorities were going to raise interest rates in an attempt to curb inflation and that they planned to clamp down on speculative trading with borrowed money, the SSE Composite Index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange tumbled 9%, the largest drop in 10 years.

Historical Context for February 27, 2007

In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]