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).
Events of 1907
January - February
★ January
★
★ The British steamship ''Pengwern'' founders in the
North Sea: crew and 24 men lost.
★
★ The ''Prinz Waldemar'', Hamburg-American line, runs aground at Kingston, Jamaica, after an earthquake; three lives lost.
★
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 US Senator.
February - The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of
Morocco.
★
February 12 - The steamship ''Larchmont'' collides with the ''Harry Hamilton'' in
Long Island Sound; 183 lives lost.
★
February 21 - English mail steamship ''Berlin'' wrecked off the
Hook of Holland; 142 lives lost.
★
February 24 - The Austrian Lloyd steamship ''Imperatrix'', from
Trieste to
Bombay, is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives lost.
March - April
★ March
★
★ Steamship ''Congo'' sunk at mouth of Ems river by German steamship ''Nerissa''; 7 lives lost.
★
★ The French warship ''Jena'' is blown up at
Toulon; 120 lives lost.
★
★
1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt.
★
March 5 - The new
Duma is opened in
St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by
Russian troops.
★
March 15 -
16 - First parliamentary elections in Finland, the first elections in the world with woman candidates as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied.
★
March 18 - First and only train robbery in
Sweden (as of 2004)
★
March 22 - The first
cabs with
taxi meters begins operating in London.
★ April - The April 1907 issue of ''
Good Housekeeping'' magazine displays the cover price "One Dollar a Year" (under title).
★
April 1 -
Hurlstone Agricultural High School is founded.
★
April 7 -
HersheyPark 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. Chunks of the little movie have disappeared over the 100 years since, but about 7 minutes remain.
★
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 -
BAPS Swaminarayan sect of Hinduism 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 - Steamship ''Columbia'' is sunk off
Shelton Cove, California, in collision with steamship ''San Pedro''; 50 lives lost.
★
July 6 - Guardians of
Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
★
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 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 alliance.
September - October
★
September 7 - Maiden voyage of new passenger liner
RMS Lusitania from Liverpool England to New York City.
★
September 26 -
New Zealand and
Newfoundland become
dominions.
★
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.
★ The first non-profit school in California is created,
Polytechnic School.
November - December
★
November 16
★
★
Indian Territory and
Oklahoma Territory become
Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th
U.S. state.
★
★ Maiden voyage of new & largest passenger liner
RMS Mauretania 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 - Explosion in coal mine in
Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania - 239 dead.
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 color photography process marketed.
★ First
parliamentary elections in the
Philippines.
★
Adlon Hotel 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 published for the second time in
English, this time by
William Forsell Kirby.
★
Lancaster Girls' Grammar School is founded.
★
Chelmsford County High School for Girls is officially opened.
Ongoing
★
Herero and Namaqua Genocide in German
South-West Africa (modern Namibia).
Births
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 phenomenon (d.
1980)
★
January 23 -
Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1981)
★
February 1 -
Günter Eich, German writer (d.
1972)
★
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
★
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 historian of religions and writer (d.
1986)
★
March 12
★
★
Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d.
2007)
★
★
Arthur Hewlett, 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, Potuguese nun and visionary (d.
2005)
★
March 23 -
Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1992)
★
March 29 -
"Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d.
2006)
★
April 1 - Dr.
Sree Sree Shivakumara Swamiji, Indian born social reformer
★
April 12 -
Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d.
2003)
★
April 13 -
Harold Stassen, American politician (d.
2001)
★
April 15 -
Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ornithologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1988)
★
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,
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, Prolific English actor of stage and screen 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
★
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 laurete (d.
1973)
★
June 28 Franciszka Themerson, Polish, later British, artist and film-maker (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 businessman (d.
1995)
★
July 19 -
Paul Magloire, President of Haiti (d.
2001)
★
July 22 -
Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed 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, modern living editor ''LIFE'' and eidtor in chief ''Bride & Home'' (d.
1984)
★
August 7 -
Albert Kotin, American
abstract expressionist painter (d.
1980)
★
August 8 -
Benny Carter, American musician (d.
2003)
★
August 12 -
Joe Besser, American comedian (d.
1988)
★
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
September-October
★
September 3 -
Loren Eiseley,
Nebraska author,
USA (d.
1977)
★
September 12
★
★
Spud Chandler, baseball player (d.
1990)
★
★
Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (d.
1963)
★
September 15 -
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 (d.
1998)
★
October 2
★
★
Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (d.
2001)
★
★
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist,
Nobel Prize luarete (d.
1997)
★
October 4 -
Run Run Shaw,
Hong Kong media mogul
★
October 5 -
Mrs. Miller, American singer (d.
1997)
★
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 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 16 -
Burgess Meredith, American actor (d.
1997)
★
November 18 -
Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (
Buena Vista Social Club) (d.
2003)
★
November 26 -
Ruth Patrick,
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)
★
★
Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d.
1998)
★
★
George W. Jenkins, American businessman (d.
1996)
★ ''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)
★
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.
1829)
★
September 19 -
Jakobus 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, mother of Adolf Hitler (b.
1860)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Albert Abraham Michelson
★
Chemistry -
Eduard Buchner
★
Medicine -
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
★
Literature -
Rudyard Kipling ("in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author").
★
Peace -
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta,
Louis Renault
See also
★
Federal Reserve System - circa 1907.
Notes
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