* 2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.

Nearby Gatzke resident Jeremy Hernandez was honored on August 15, 2007 for his role in rescuing dozens of children on a school bus trapped in the rubble of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis.

were with the bus the day the I-35W Bridge collapsed at 6: 05pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2007.

The second was on August 2, 2007, the day after the I-35W Mississippi River bridge had collapsed a few blocks away from the Metrodome.

On August 1, 2007, the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis collapsed into the Mississippi River, killing 13 people and injuring over 50.

The I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was well known for its black ice before it collapsed in 2007 into the Mississippi River.

The collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minnesota on August 1, 2007 has renewed concerns about the bridge's structural integrity.

Following the collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W arch-truss bridge on August 1, 2007, the Washington State Department of Transportation was directed to perform inspections of all steel cantilever bridges in the state that used gusset plates in their design, including the George Washington Memorial Bridge.

A project to replace both spans is underway, as these bridges are approximately the same design and age as the I-35W Mississippi River bridge which collapsed in 2007.

** The I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis, which collapsed on August 1, 2007

After the August 1, 2007 collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kanjorski said he believed the $ 250, 000, 000 bill passed by Congress to rebuild the bridge was a ripoff because it exceeded the normal $ 100, 000, 000 limit for emergency relief projects.

* The collapse of the multi-span I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on August 1, 2007

In August 2007, after the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge, Rybak asked Governor Tim Pawlenty and Minnesota state officials to implement its replacement, ensuring that the new bridge would be capable of handling mass transit.

Cloud was closed on March 20, 2008, after bent gusset plates were found in an inspection ; similar to gusset plates that caused the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis to collapse on August 1, 2007.

* I-35W Mississippi River bridge ( 1967 ) bridge that collapsed in 2007 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

In comparison, the I-35W Mississippi River bridge, another fracture critical bridge which collapsed on August 1, 2007, received a sufficiency rating of 50.

Following the collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota in August 2007, Kentucky officials ( including Governor Ernie Fletcher ), sought to reassure motorists that Kentucky's bridges are safe by conducting a special safety review of all long-span bridges at that time.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007 for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the National Blues Trail stating that he was " acclaimed as a founder of rock and roll.

Beginning in fall 2007, the project will inject CO < sub > 2 </ sub > at the rate of one million tons per year, for up to 1. 5 years, into brine up to below the land surface near the Cranfield oil field about east of Natchez, Mississippi.

* " George Lucas: Interviews " University Press of Mississippi ( February 16, 2007 )

* November 27 – Pat Fordice, First Lady of Mississippi from 1992 to 2000 ( d. 2007 )

* Keaton, Buster, Buster Keaton: Interviews ( Conversations with Filmmakers Series ) ( 2007 ) University Press of Mississippi

Three bridges over the Mississippi, view from Tom Lee Park ( 2007 )

View of the Mississippi River and western Wisconsin from Effigy Mounds National Monument in 2007

In 2007 the Mississippi Highway Patrol opened a driver's license facility across the highway from the prison.

This was still true as of 2007, when the Mississippi Department of Education found that the students in the district were 97. 92 % African American, 1. 81 % White, and 0. 27 % Hispanic.

* Ransom A. Myers ( b. Lula, Mississippi, 1952-d. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2007 ) was a renowned Canada-based marine biologist, conservationist and scholar at Dalhousie University who published a seminal study on overfishing.

Bill Stone was elected to Mississippi State Senate in November 2007 and a special election was held in the town of Ashland to fill mayoral vacancy.

Ashland is also home of Bill Renick, a 2007 candidate for Governor of Mississippi.

* Kimberly Morgan, Miss Mississippi 2007

In 2007, Beeny sold the museum's collection of artifacts on eBay, and the museum briefly reopened in Hattiesburg, Mississippi before being placed into storage.

In June 2007, although much smaller in population than its counterparts, Oakland had the highest number of building permits issued for any suburb in the Memphis metropolitan area, including Southaven and Olive Branch, Mississippi, and Collierville, Tennessee.

In 2007 a black student accused members of the DKE fraternity at the University of Mississippi of making racial slurs.

On November 29, 2007, The New York Times noted that Lott's brother-in-law, Richard Scruggs, was indicted on charges of offering a $ 40, 000 bribe to a Mississippi state judge in a fee dispute.

The state flags of Mississippi and Georgia | archivedate = September 27, 2007

This has occurred with contestants from Pennsylvania ( 1935 and 1936 ), Mississippi ( 1959 and 1960 ), and Oklahoma ( 2006 and 2007 ).

Mike Fink is a prime character in the 2007 young-adult historical novel Mississippi Jack by Louis A. Meyer.

Tourists wade the Mississippi near Lake Itasca in 2007

In 2007, the destruction of the Marmot Dam on the Sandy River was the first dam removal in the system.

* 2007 – Winter storms cause the Chehalis River to flood many cities in Lewis County, Washington, also closing a 20-mile portion of Interstate 5 for several days.

* In 2007, the former Troup – Howell bridge which carried Interstate 490 over the Genesee River was redesigned and renamed the Frederick Douglass – Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge.

In 2007, construction resumed on the Takutu River Bridge to link Guyana and Brazil in the southwest of Guyana near Lethem.

In March, 2007 the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee voted unanimously not to accept the 2005-06 reports of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker on the Choctawhatchee River :< ref >

It also hosted the ACC Championship Game from 2005 – 2007 and the River City Showdown from 2007 – 2008.

In July 2007, plans have been approved by the Brazilian Government to construct two hydroelectric dams on the Madeira River, the Santo Antonio Dam near Porto Velho and the Jirau Dam about 100km downstream.

* Nile River valley and delta, Egypt, is claimed as the world's biggest oasis by the 2007 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records with a stated area of 22, 000 square kilometres.

In mid-2005 construction began on a bridge across the Panj River to Afghanistan which was funded by the United States and opened in August 2007, and plans called for construction of several other bridges ultimately connecting Tajikistan to warm-water ports to the south.

In January 2007, with funding from the United States, Afghanistan and Tajikistan opened a bridge over the Pyanj River linking the two countries.

The construction of a controversial pulp paper mill in 2007, on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River, caused protests in Argentina over fears that it would pollute the environment and lead to diplomatic tensions between the two countries.

By 2007, the animals had multiplied to 16 and had taken to roaming the area for food in the nearby Magdalena River.

Award of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory contract to LLNS LLC took effect October 1, 2007, rounding out Bechtel's control of the bulk of the US nuclear weapons facilities including LANL ( design ), LLNL ( design ), Savannah River Site ( nuclear materials ), Hanford Site ( nuclear materials ), Pantex Plant ( assembly / disassembly ), and Y-12 National Security Complex ( nuclear materials ).

* 2007: The Congo River and the Democratic Republic of Congo are the scenario for the 2007 book Blood River by journalist Tim Butcher, based on his intrepid travels up and down Africa's second longest river.

In 2007, Friends of the Earth Middle East ( FoEME ) named the Jordan River as one of the world's 100 most endangered ecological sites, due in part to lack of cooperation between Israel and neighboring Arab states.

The landfill, approved to triple in size in 2007, is the subject of complaints by neighbors of operating violations, such as large areas of open trash and blown litter, leachate breaks which contaminate area residential wells and flow into Deer Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River, and increased health problems.

* Rupert River ( Quebec )-diverted in 2007 for hydroelectric development and no longer a popular destination

The River Avon ( Warwickshire ) | River Avon and the side of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre ( April 2007 )