Submitted by: Tom Reves on May 6, 2008

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Description: Key events in the year 2007 1. Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the United States House of Representatives. 2. 32 people are killed in the Virginia Tech massacre on the premises of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. 3. Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation, died at the age of 76 4. Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of the French Republic,defeating Segolene Royal with 53% of the vote in the French Presidential Election. 5. Tony Blair resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; New Labour Party leader Gordon Brown is appointed Prime Minister by Queen Elizabeth II. 6. After being held for 114 days, Alan Johnston, British journalist working for the BBC, was finally freed. 7. Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, died at the age of 71 8. United Russia, which is backed by the current President Vladimir Putin,won parliamentary elections in Russia, increasing their majority with 60% of the votes. QOUTES: 1."The great fear is the fear of being forgotten... It's a battle to keep your mind in the right place. You've got to believe somehow, some day, some way, it's going to end. You will not grow old there." BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, freed in July after 114 days of imprisonment in Gaza city, where he was held by members of a much-feared family known for lawlessness and Islamic extremism 2. "This is it. This is where it all ends. End of the road. What a life it was. Some life." Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui, in a chilling video he made and sent to NBC News before killing 32 people and committing suicide in April in the deadliest school shooting in US history THE OPINIONS ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF THE EVENTS MAY DIFFER.