Harry Potter ends
July 21, 2007
At midnight in bookshops from Edinburgh to Manila, children in robes and round glasses lined up to buy the seventh and final volume of J.K. Rowling's saga. Fifteen million copies sold in twenty-four hours. A generation that had grown up with Harry closed the book and tried to figure out what to read next.
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Also in 2007 (3 other events on record)
- iPhone unveiled · North America · Technology
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Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.
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