Editing 2007

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== Events ==
* January 3 - [[Dennis Hastert]] steps down as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
* January 10 - [[Daniel Ortega]] is elected President of Nicaragua for the second time.
* March 24 - The [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] is founded by President [[Hugo Chávez]].
* April 1 - End of the Central African Republic Bush War.
* April 13 - ''[[Tomorrow's Pioneers]]'' begins broadcasting.
* April 16 – South Korean student [[Seung-Hui Cho]] kills 32 people and wounds 17 others before committing suicide in a shooting at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
* May 3 – Madeleine McCann is [[Kidnapping|kidnapped]] by [[Christian B]] from 5A Rua Dr Agostinho da Silva in Praia da Luz, Portugal while she was sleeping.
* May 16 - [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] is elected President of France.
* June 2 - [[Alexis Flores]] is placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.
* June 10 to 15 - The Battle of Gaza: [[Hamas]] engages their rivals, the PLO-affiliated [[Fatah]] party, in military conflict. Hamas emerges victorious and becomes the ''de facto'' governing power of Gaza.
* June 22 to 24 - Professional wrestler [[Chris Benoit]] kills his wife and 7-year old son at their home in Fayetteville, Georgia before committing suicide. His reasons for doing so are unknown.
* June 25 to July 16 - The [[Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs]] go on a [[Thrill Killing|thrill kill]] rampage in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, killing 21 people and recording it in a [[Snuff Film|snuff film]] called ''3 Guys, 1 Hammer''.
*June 29 - The second round of peace talks between Uganda and the [[Lord's Resistance Army]] commence in Juba.
*July 23 - 16-year old [[Daniel Petry]] [[torture]]s, [[Rape|rapes]] and brutally [[murder]]s his 12-year old neighbor Gabriel Kuhn in Blumenau, Santa Clarita, Brazil over an minor video game dispute.
* July 24 - 2 year old Riley Ann Sawyers is beaten to death by her mother [[Kimberly Dawn Trenor]] and stepfather [[Royce Clyde Zeigler Jr|Royce Clyde Zeigler, Jr]].
*August 3 - Peter Connelly is killed by [[Tracey Connelly]], [[Steven Barker]] and [[Jason Owen]].
*August 7 - The [[National Bolshevik Party]] is banned.
*September 12 - Former President of the Philippines [[Joseph Estrada]] is found guilty of plunder and perjury and is sentenced to reclusión perpetua (life imprisonment).
*October 10 - [[Asa Coon|SuccessTech Academy shooting]]
*November 7 - [[Pekka-Eric Auvinen]] commits the Jokela High School shooting in Tuusula, Finland, killing 8 poeple and injuring 13 others before committing suicide.
*November 9 - [[Arthur Bremer]] is released from prison after spending 35 years incarcerated.
*December 5 - [[Robert Hawkins|Westroads Mall shooting]]
*December 27 - The [[Islamic Courts Union]] collapses. [[Militant Islam]]ists that were members subsequently form [[Al-Shabaab]] and pledge allegiance to [[Al-Qaeda]].

== Births ==
===Villain births===
*Unknown - [[Claire Miller]]

=== Victim births ===
*January 2 - Braden Powell
*January 29 - Hana St. Juliana
*May 14 - Patricia Alatorre
*June 8 - Erin M. Schuler
*July 15 - Daniel Pelka
*November 2 - Alissa Guernsey 
*November 17 - Brianna Hester

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
*January 1 - [[Leonard Fraser]]
*January 15 - [[Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti]]
*January 22 - [[Elizaphan Ntakirutimana]]
*January 31 - [[Eli Stutzman]]
*February 14 - [[Salomon Morel]]
*April 16 - [[Seung-Hui Cho]]
*May 7 - [[Yahweh ben Yahweh]]
*May 15 - [[Jerry Falwell]]
*May 28 - [[David Lane]]
*June 18 - [[Tyler Dumstorf]]
*June 24 - [[Chris Benoit]]
*August 27 - [[Bobbi Sue Dudley]]
*September 21 - [[Carl Eugene Watts]]
*October 2 - [[Vincent Otti]]
*October 10 - [[Asa Coon]]
*October 13 - [[Bob Denard]]
*November 7 - [[Pekka-Eric Auvinen]]
*November 20 - [[Ian Smith]]
*December 5 - [[Robert Hawkins]]
*December 18 - [[Héctor Hernán Bustamante Gómez]]
*Unknown - [[Robert Kajuga]]

=== Victim deaths ===
*March 8 - Christopher Barrios Jr
*March 24 - Lindsay Hawker
*June 2 - Kelsey Smith
*June 18 - Dep. Frank Dezinger, and Rep. Joel White
*June 24 - Nancy & Daniel Benoit
*July 23 - [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209290249/gabriel-kuhn Gabriel Kuhn]
*July 24 - Riley Ann Sawyers 
*August 3 - Peter Connelly
*August 3 - Nia Glassie
*August 8 - Adrianna Hutto 
*August 24 - Sophie Lancaster
*September 16 - Nurin Jazimin