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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
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've 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 24 to August 31 - International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam.
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 07 Stu, the insatiable man-lover returned to home
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
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
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
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 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, 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
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
May 22
May 25 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
May 26
May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot
June 14
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
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
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 2 - Evelyn Hooker, psychologist (d. 1996)
September 3 - Loren Eiseley, Nebraska author, USA (d. 1977)
September 12
September 15 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004)
September 18
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
October 2
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 14
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
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
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
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