1907

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

January - February

March - April

May - June

July - August

September - October

November - December

Undated

Ongoing

Births

January-February

March-April

May-June

July-August

September-October

November-December

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Nobel prizes

See also

Notes

External links

Table of contents

Events of 1907

January - February

★ January

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★ The British steamship ''Pengwern'' founders in the North Sea: crew and 24 men lost.

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★ 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

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★ Steamship ''Congo'' sunk at mouth of Ems river by German steamship ''Nerissa''; 7 lives lost.

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★ The French warship ''Jena'' is blown up at Toulon; 120 lives lost.

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★ 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

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★ Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.

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★ 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

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★ Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (d. 1991)

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★ 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

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★ Sheldon Leonard, American actor, writer, director, and producer (d. 1997)

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★ 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

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★ Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007)

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★ 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

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★ Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)

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★ 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

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★ Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)

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★ Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)

★ May 22

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★ Hergé, Belgian comics author (d. 1983)

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★ Lord Laurence Olivier, Prolific English actor of stage and screen and director (d. 1989)

★ May 25 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)

★ May 26

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★ John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)

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★ Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d. 1964)

★ May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot

★ June 14

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★ Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)

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★ 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

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★ Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)

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★ 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

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★ Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal rower (d. 1965)

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★ 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

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★ Spud Chandler, baseball player (d. 1990)

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★ Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (d. 1963)

★ September 15 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004)

★ September 18

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★ Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)

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★ 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

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★ Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (d. 2001)

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★ 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

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★ Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)

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★ Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer (d. 2002)

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★ 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''

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★ Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (d. 1973)

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★ Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d. 1998)

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★ 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

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★ Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)

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★ 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.

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