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One event that didn't seem like a major event at the time but would go on to become very important was when then-Senator Barack Obama announced he was a candidate for the US presidency. In 2007, the US got its first-ever female speaker of the House of Representatives, when California Democrat Nancy Pelosi rose to that position. The war in Iraq remained controversial, but rather than announcing an exit strategy, President Bush announced what came to be called "the Surge," when he sent an additional 20,000 troops to fight in Iraq. On the campus of Virginia Tech, a gunman murdered 32 people and wounded 17 others before taking his own life. And a big story in technology was that the iPhone was introduced for the first time.

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