1907

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Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

Contents:
Events of 1907 -  Jan. . Feb. . March . April -  May . June . July  .  Aug. -  Sept. . Oct. . Nov. .  Dec. -  Undated . Ongoing . Births Deaths Nobel Prizes See also -  Notes -  External links

Events of 1907

January - February

• January
  • The British steamship Pengwern founders in the North Sea; the crew and 24 men are lost.
  • The Prinz Waldemar (Hamburg-American line) runs aground at Kingston, Jamaica, after an earthquake; 3 lives are lost.
• January 1 - Daniel J. Tobin becomes president of the Teamsters, beginning a 45-year presidency.
• January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo).
• January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
• January 14 - The Pyongyang Revival takes place.
• January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.

• February 11 - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
• February 7- The Mud March, the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), takes place in London.
• February 12 - The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost.
• February 21 - The English mail steamship Berlin is wrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives are lost.
• February 24 - The Austrian Lloyd steamship Imperatrix, from Trieste to Bombay, is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives are lost.

March - April

• March
  • The steamship Congo collides at the mouth of the Ems River with the German steamship Nerissa; 7 lives are lost.
  • The French warship Jena is blown up at Toulon; 120 lives are lost.
  • The 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt breaks out.
• March 5 - The new State Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia; 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
• March 15 - 16 - The parliamentary elections in Finland are the first in the world with woman candidates, as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied.
• March 18 - The first and only train robbery in Sweden (as of 2004) occurs.
• March 22 - The first taxicabs with taxi meters begin operating in London.

• April - The April 1907 issue of Good Housekeeping Magazine displays the cover price One Dollar a Year (under the title).
• April 7 - Hershey Park opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
• April 11 - At Porto Cortez, Honduras, the only war vessel of Honduras, the gunboat Ta Tumbla, steams into the harbor flying the American flag and surrenders with a white flag, when the Nicaraguan gunboat San Jacinto steams out to meet her.
• April 18 - The USS Kansas (BB-21), a Connecticut-class battleship, is commissioned.

May - June

• May 7 - Seattle film maker William Harbeck sets up a camera at the front of a B.C. electric streetcar and films the downtown streets of Vancouver, British Columbia. Pieces of the film, the earliest survivng of the city^[1], have disappeared, only about 7 minutes remain.^[2]
• June 1 - Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded for a county cricket match (or for a single day's bowling), and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
• June 5 - Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a sect of Hinduism, is established by Swami Yagnapurushdas.
• June 11 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
• June 15 - The Second Hague Peace Conference is held.

July - August

• July - The steamship Columbia sinks off Shelton Cove, California, in collision with the steamship San Pedro; 50 lives are lost.
• July 6 - Guardians of the Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
• July 19 - The Turkish football club Fenerbahce is founded.
• July 25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
• August 1-9 - Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.
• August 17 - Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opens for business.
• August 24 - August 31 - The International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam meets in the Netherlands.
• August 28 - UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
• August 31 - Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the establishment of the Triple Entente.

September - October

• September 7 - The new passenger liner RMS Lusitania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
• September 22 - The transatlantic passenger ship Princess Yolanda sinks during its launch. ^[3]
• September 26 - New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions.
• October - A committee of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, made up of academics including Otto Jespersen, Wilhelm Ostwald and Roland Eotvos meet in Paris to select a language for international use. The committee ultimately decides to reform Esperanto.
• October 17 - Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden Ireland and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
• October 24 - A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907.^[4]
• October 27 - Černová tragedy: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of the Catholic church in Slovakia.

November - December

• November 7 - ΔΣΠ (Delta Sigma Pi) (a co-ed professional business fraternity) is founded at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, New York University, New York, New York.
• November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
• The new & largest passenger liner RMS Mauretania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
• December 6 - Monongah Mining Disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
• December 19 - An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239.
• December 31 - The first electric ball drops in Times Square.^[5]

Undated

• The Diamond Sutra of 868, a Buddhist scripture later dated as earliest example of block printing, is discovered in the Mogao Caves.
• The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee DeForest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.
• The Autochrome Lumière is the first commercial color photography process.
• The first parliamentary elections are held in the Philippines.
• The Adlon Hotel is finished in Berlin.
• The Moine Thrust Belt in Scotland becomes the first thrust belt to be discovered in the world.
• The Lockport Powerhouse is built.
• James Murray Spangler invents the first Hoover vacuum cleaner.
• The Finnish epic Kalevala is published for the second time in English, this time by William Forsell Kirby.

Ongoing

• Herero and Namaqua Genocide in German South-West Africa (modern Namibia).

Births

1907 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1907 MCMVII
Ab urbe condita	2660
Armenian calendar	1356 ԹՎ ՌՅԾԶ
Bahá'í calendar	63 – 64
Berber calendar	2857
Buddhist calendar	2451
Burmese calendar	1269
Byzantine calendar	7415 – 7416
Chinese calendar	丙午年十一月十七日 (4543/4603-11-17) — to — 丁未年十一月廿七日 (4544/4604-11-27)
Coptic calendar	1623 – 1624
Ethiopian calendar	1899 – 1900
Hebrew calendar	5667 – 5668
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1962 – 1963
- Shaka Samvat	1829 – 1830
- Kali Yuga	5008 – 5009
Holocene calendar	11907
Iranian calendar	1285 – 1286
Islamic calendar	1324 – 1325
Japanese calendar	Meiji 40 (明治40年)
Korean calendar	4240
Thai solar calendar	2450
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January-February

• January 12 - Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
• January 20 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
• January 22 - Dixie Dean, English football player (d. 1980)
• January 23 - Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
• February 1 - Günter Eich, German writer (d. 1972)
• February 12 - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991)
• February 13 - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (d. 2004)
• February 15
  • Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (d. 1991)
  • Cesar Romero, American actor (d. 1994)
• February 17 - Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (d. 1983)
• February 18 - Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (d. 2008)
• February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
• February 22
  • Sheldon Leonard, American actor, writer, director, and producer (d. 1997)
  • Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
• February 27 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)

March-April

• March 8 - Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
• March 9 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian religious historian and writer (d. 1986)
• March 12
  • Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007)
  • Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997)
• March 15 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
• March 18 - John Zachary Young, English biologist (d. 1997)
• March 22 - Lucia dos Santos, Portuguese nun and visionary (d. 2005)
• March 23 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
• March 29 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
• March 30 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (d. 1994)
• April 1 - Dr. Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji, Indian born social reformer
• April 11 - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (d. 2001)
• April 12 - Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
• April 13 - Harold Stassen, American politician (d. 2001)
• April 15 - Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
• April 18 - Bert Hazell, British Labour Member of Parliament
• April 23 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
• April 24 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
• April 29
  • Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)
  • Fred Zinnemann, Austrian director (d. 1997)

May-June

• May 1 - Oliver Hill, American civil rights attorney (d. 2007)
• May 2 - Pinky Lee, American comedian (d. 1993)
• May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
• May 11 - Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
• May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
• May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
• May 14
  • Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
  • Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
• May 22
  • Hergé, Belgian comics author (d. 1983)
  • Lord Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor and director (d. 1989)
• May 25 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
• May 26
  • John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
  • Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d. 1964)
• May 30
  • Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
  • Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
• June 14
  • Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
  • René Char, French poet (d. 1988)
• June 19 - Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general (d. 1985)
• June 23 - James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• June 25 - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
• June 28 Franciszka Themerson, Polish, later British, artist and filmmaker (d. 1989)

July-August

• July 6 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
• July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction author (d. 1988)
• July 16
  • Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
  • Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and popcorn businessman (d. 1995)
• July 19 - Paul Magloire, President of Haiti (d. 2001)
• July 22 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer of Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)
• July 27
  • Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal rower (d. 1965)
  • Ross Alexander, American actor (d. 1937)
• August 2 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (d. 1984)
• August 7 - Albert Kotin, American painter (d. 1980)
• August 8 - Benny Carter, American musician (d. 2003)
• August 12 - Joe Besser, American comedian (d. 1988)
  • Noriko Awaya, Japanese singer (d. 1999)
• August 13 - Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British politician (d. 1966)
• August 21 - Hy Zaret, American lyricist and composer (d. 2007)
• August 31 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)

September-October

• September 2 - Evelyn Hooker, American psychologist (d. 1996)
• September 3 - Loren Eiseley, American author (d. 1977)
• September 4 - Frances Griffiths, Cottingley Fairies girl (d. 1986)
• September 12
  • Spud Chandler, American baseball player (d. 1990)
  • Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (d. 1963)
• September 15
  • Jimmy Wallington, American radio personality (d. 1972)
  • Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004)
• September 18
  • Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
  • Edwin McMillan, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• September 23 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, Pretender to the throne of Portugal (d. 1976)
• September 26 - Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (d. 1992)
• September 27 - Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and writer (d. 2003)
• September 29
  • Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and businessman (d. 1998)
  • George W. Jenkins, American businessman (d. 1996)
• October 2
  • Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (d. 2001)
  • Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
• October 4 - Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul
• October 5 - Mrs. Miller, American singer (d. 1997)
• October 6 - Francisco Gabilondo Soler, (d. 1990)
• October 9 - Lord Hailsham, British politician (d. 2001)
• October 15 - Varian Fry, American journalist and rescuer (d. 1967)
• October 19 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
• October 22 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (d. 1967)
• October 28 - John Harold Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)
• October 30 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)

November-December

• November 10 - John Moore, British author (d. 1967)
• November 14
  • Howard W. Hunter, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)
  • Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer (d. 2002)
  • William Steig, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
• November 15 - Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German aristocrat and military officer (d. 1944)
• November 16 - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
• November 18 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (d. 2003)
• November 26 - Ruth Patrick, American botanist
• November 27 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
• November 28 - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (d. 1990)
• November 30 - Jacques Barzun, French born historian
• December 10 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
• December 12 - Roy Douglas, British composer
• December 15 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
• December 19 - Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer (d. 2004)
• December 22 - Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (d. 1991)
• December 23 - James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (d. 1991)
• December 25 - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (d. 1988)
• December 27 - Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)
• date unknown
  • Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (d. 1973)
  • Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer and composer (d. 1991)
  • Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d. 1998)
• probable - Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)

Deaths

January - June

• January 14 - Hermann Iseke, doctor (b. 1856)
• January 31 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
• February 2 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
• February 16
  • Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
  • Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France (b. 1817)
• February 20 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• February 26 - C. W. Alcock, English footballer, journalist, and football promoter (b. 1842)
• March 10 - George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist (b. 1836)
• March 11 - Jean Casimir-Perier, President of France (b. 1847)
• March 19 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (b. 1836)
• March 23 - Konstantin Pobedonostsev, statesman (b. 1827)
• April 23 - Alferd Packer, cannibal (b. 1842)
• May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
• May 26 - Ida Saxton McKinley, former U.S. First Lady & widow of President William McKinley (b. 1847)
• June 6 - J. A. Chatwin, architect (b. 1830)
• June 25 - John Hall, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1824)

July - December

• July 13 - Heinrich Kreutz, astronomer (b. 1854)
• August - Dinqinesh Mercha, empress consort of Ethiopia (b. 1815)
• August 15 - Joseph Joachim, Austrian violinist (b. 1831)
• August 16 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
• August 25 - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, British poet and novelist (b. 1861)
• August 30 - Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian writer and saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church (b. 1837)
• September 4 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
• September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1839)
• September 9 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
• September 19 - Jacob Morenga, Namibian rebel leader (b. c. 1875)
• November 16 - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
• November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish writer, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
• December 8 - King Oscar II of Sweden (b. 1829)
• December 15 - Carola of Vasa, queen consort of Saxony (b. 1833)
• December 17 - Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
• December 21 - Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler (b. 1860)

Nobel prizes

• Physics - Albert Abraham Michelson
• Chemistry - Eduard Buchner
• Medicine - Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
• Literature - Rudyard Kipling
• Peace - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault

Notes and References

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