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Bush was President of the United States, and Dick Cheney was Vice-President. In 2007, comfort foods like macaroni and cheese were real crowd-pleasers. White bread: A one-pound loaf for $1.20.Wheat bread: A one-pound loaf for $1.71.Red delicious apples: One pound for $1.12.Creamy peanut butter: One pound for $1.79.

Chocolate chip cookies: $2.70 per pound.

Boneless chicken breast: One pound for $3.43.

All-purpose flour: One pound for 36 cents.

A loaf of white bread cost $1.20, a dozen eggs were $1.68, one pound of sliced bacon was $3.66, and strawberries cost $2.20 for 12 ounces.

Unemployment hovered around 5.0%, inflation averaged 2.85%, and the retail price for a gallon of gas averaged $3.38.

Here are some sports facts from 2007: The Indianapolis Colts were the Super Bowl champs, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, and the Anaheim Mighty Ducks clinched the Stanley Cup.Rowling finished the seventh and final Harry Potter novel. The Departed won an Oscar for Best Picture, Helen Mirren ( The Queen) won an Oscar for Best Actress, and Forest Whitaker ( The Last King of Scotland) won an Oscar for Best Actor.Spider-Man 3 was the most popular film, A Thousand Splendid Suns was the most popular fiction book, and American Idol (Fox) was the top TV show.In the year 2007, the average life expectancy at birth for persons born in the U.S.Raggedy Andy was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame.Ethan and Isabella were favorite baby names, and Von Dutch T-shirts and low-rise jeans were fashion trends.Google launched Google Street View, and Amazon released the first Kindle e-reader.The most popular web browsers were Internet Explorer (56%) and Firefox (36.3%).Popular web searches were American Idol, baby names, Britney Spears, Chris Brown, Jessica Simpson, music, MySpace, New York, and Pamela Anderson.England banned smoking in all enclosed workplaces, following similar bans in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.Apple introduced the first generation iPhone, and Google launched the Android operating system.Back in the year 2007, Steve Jobs was probably the most famous person in America.The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.On October 11, the DJIA hit an intra-day peak of 14,198.10 before starting to decline. On October 9, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 14,164.53, an all-time high.The MESSENGER spacecraft performed a second flyby of Venus, NASA's Phoenix spaceship was launched, and Comet McNaught became the brightest comet in over 40 years.Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the House.Bush signed the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 into law. Here is a summary of the top news stories and history events that happened in 2007: