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April 25, 2007

On April 25, 2007, boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894. The year's #1 song was "Irreplaceable" by Beyoncé. Brenda Fruhvirtová, Princess Isabella of Denmark, Mirra Andreeva would arrive in the same year.

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2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.

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What happened

On April 25, 2007

  1. 2007 Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

    2007 funeral of the 1st Russian president

    Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia, died of cardiac arrest on 23 April 2007, twelve days after being admitted to the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. Yeltsin was the first Russian head of state to be buried in a church ceremony since Emperor Alexander III, 113 years prior.

Farewells

Died on April 25, 2007

Alan Ball Jr. English footballer (1945–2007)
Arthur Milton English cricketer and footballer
Bobby Pickett American singer-songwriter and comedian (1938–2007)

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Brenda Fruhvirtová 2007– Czech tennis player
Princess Isabella of Denmark 2007– daughter of King Frederik X and Queen Mary of Denmark
Mirra Andreeva 2007– Russian tennis player
Infanta Sofía of Spain 2007– Spanish princess
Ariana Greenblatt 2007– American actress
Leeseo 2007– South Korean singer

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