The year 2007 (MMVII) of the Gregorian Calendar began and ended on a Monday. During the year, student, Seung Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded many others on the campus of Virginia Tech before committing suicide. Conservative candidate Nicholas Sarkozy won the French Presidential Election, and Senator Larry Craig of Idaho is arrested for making sexual advances to an undercover police officer in a Minneapolis Airport.
An Eight lane interstate bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River killing 13 people and injuring at least 60 and Hurricane Dean hits the Mexico as a category 5 hurricane, the third most intense Atlantic Hurricane since 1850. Olympian champion Runner Marion Jones pleads guilty to lying to federal agents about her use of performance enhancing drugs, and the Mitchell Report is released accusing 89 major league baseball player of using performance enhancing drugs, including Roger Clemens and Chuck Knoblauch
January 2007
- January 1: South Korea's Ban Ki-moon becomes the new United Nations Secretary-General, replacing Kofi Annan.
February 2007
- February 2: A UN expert team (IPCC) presents its report on global warming in Paris and identifies it as man's greatest challenge in the 21st century.
March 2007
- March 6: Lewis Libby is convicted of lying to investigators concerning the public identification of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.
April 2007
April 16: Virginia Tech Massacre: 32 people are killed by Cho Seung-Hui at Virginia Tech University
May 2007
- May 6: Nicolas Sarkozy defeats Segolene Royal and is elected president of France.
June 2007
- June 15: Bob Barker airs his last episode of The Price is Right
July 2007
- July 7: A series of concerts called Live Earth, were held worldwide to raise awareness of global issues.
August 2007
- August 15: An 8.0 earthquake strikes Peru, killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean.
September 26 2007
September 26: The military junta cracks down on the anti-government demonstrations in Myanmar.
September 2007
- September 22: Buddhists monks march to the home of Aung San Suu Kyi where she was being held under house arrest.
October 2007
- October 8 Olympic track-and-field star, Marion Jones, gives back her 5 medals after admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
November 5 2007
November 5: The Writers Guild of America goes on strike, halting the production of Hollywood projects for months.
December 2007
- December 27: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, is assassinated in a bomb explosion at a political rally that kills 20 other people.
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