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).

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.
  • 1 January - Daniel J. Tobin becomes president of the Teamsters, beginning a 45-year presidency
  • 6 January - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare centre for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo).
  • 14 January - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
  • 14 January - The Pyongyang Revival takes place.
  • 23 January - Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American US Senator.
14 January: Earthquake in Jamaica.
14 January: Earthquake in Jamaica.
  • 11 February - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
  • 7 February- The " Mud March", the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies ( NUWSS), takes place in London.
  • 12 February - The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives lost.
  • 21 February - English mail steamship Berlin wrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives lost.
  • 24 February - 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.
  • 5 March - The new State Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
  • 15 March - 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.
  • 18 March - First and only train robbery in Sweden (as of 2004)
  • 22 March - The first taxicabs with taxi meters begin operating in London.
18 April: USS Kansas (BB-21).
18 April: USS Kansas (BB-21).
  • April - The April 1907 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine displays the cover price "One Dollar a Year" (under title).
  • 1 April - Hurlstone Agricultural High School is founded.
  • 7 April - HersheyPark opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
  • 11 April - At Porto Cortez, Honduras, the only war vessel of Honduras, the gunboat Ta Tumbla, steams into the harbour flying the American flag and surrenders with a white flag, when the Nicaraguan gunboat San Jacinto steams out to meet her.
  • 18 April - The USS Kansas (BB-21), a Connecticut-class battleship, is commissioned.

May - June

  • 7 May - 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, have disappeared, only about 7 minutes remain.
  • 1 June - 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.
  • 5 June - Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a sect of Hinduism which was established by Swami Yagnapurushdas.
  • 11 June - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
  • 15 June - 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.
  • 6 July - Guardians of Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
  • 19 July - Turkish football club Fenerbahce is founded.
  • 25 July - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
  • 1 August- 9 - Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.
  • 17 August - Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opens for business.
  • 24 August to 31 August - International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam.
  • 28 August - UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
  • 31 August - Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the establishment of the Triple Entente.

September - October

  • 1 September - Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart is opened in Washington
  • 7 September - Maiden voyage of new passenger liner RMS Lusitania from Liverpool England to New York City.
  • 22 September - The transatlantic passenger ship Princess Yolanda sinks during its launch.
  • 26 September - 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.
  • 17 October - Guglielmo Marconi initiated commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden Ireland and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
  • 24 October - 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.
  • 27 October - The Černová tragedy. Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of the Catholic church in Slovakia.
  • The first non-profit school in California is created, Polytechnic School.

November - December

  • 7 November - ΔΣΠ ( Delta Sigma Pi), a co-ed professional business fraternity was founded on at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, New York University, New York, New York.
  • 16 November - 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.
  • 6 December - Monongah Mining Disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
  • 19 December - Explosion in coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania - 239 dead.
  • 31 December - First electric ball drops in Times Square.

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 colour 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

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

January-February

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

March-April

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

May-June

  • 1 May - Oliver Hill, Civil Rights Attorney (d. 2007)
  • 2 May - Pinky Lee, American comedian (d. 1993)
  • 9 May - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
  • 11 May - Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
  • 12 May - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
  • 13 May - Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
  • 14 May
    • Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
    • Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
  • 22 May
  • 25 May - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
  • 26 May
  • 30 May
    • Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
    • Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
  • 14 June
    • Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
    • René Char, French poet (d. 1988)
  • 19 June - Clarence Wiseman, Salvation Army general (d. 1985)
  • 23 June - James Meade, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
  • 25 June - J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laurete (d. 1973)
  • 28 June Franciszka Themerson, Polish, later British, artist and film-maker (d. 1989)

July-August

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

September-October

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

November-December

  • 10 November - John Moore, British author (d. 1967)
  • 14 November
    • 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)
  • 15 November, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, German aristocrat and military officer (d. 1944)
  • 16 November - Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
  • 18 November - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician ( Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2003)
  • 26 November - Ruth Patrick, American botanist
  • 27 November - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)
  • 28 November - Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist (d. 1990)
  • 30 November - Jacques Barzun, French born historian
  • 10 December - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
  • 12 December - Roy Douglas, British composer
  • 15 December - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
  • 19 December - Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer (d. 2004)
  • 22 December - Peggy Ashcroft, British actress (d. 1991)
  • 23 December - James Roosevelt, American businessman and politician (d. 1991)
  • 25 December - Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (d. 1988)
  • 27 December - 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

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

July - December

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

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