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1907
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1907 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1907
MCMVII |
| Ab urbe condita |
2660 |
| Armenian calendar |
1356
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԶ |
| Chinese calendar |
4603 – 4604
丙午 – 丁未 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1899 – 1900 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5667 – 5668 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1962 – 1963 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1829 – 1830 |
| - Kali Yuga |
5008 – 5009 |
| Iranian calendar |
1285 – 1286 |
| Islamic calendar |
1325 – 1326 |
1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).
Events
January
- 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 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American US Senator.
February
March
- March 5 - The new Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators had 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 was applied.
- March 18 - Train robbery in Sweden (first and only as of 2004)
- March 22 - The first cabs with taxi meters began operating in London.
- 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt
May
June
- 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 religion established.
- June 11 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
July
August
- August 1-9 - Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.
- August 17 - Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opened for business.
- August 28 - UPS was founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
- August 31 - Formation of the Anglo-Russian Entente.
September
October
- October 24 - A major American financial crisis was averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers created a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange leading to the bank panic of 1907.
- The first non-profit school in California is created, Polytechnic School.
November
- November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
December
- 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.
- Herero Wars end
- French warship Jena explodes - 117 dead
- 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 the English Language. This time by William Forsell Kirby.
Births
January
February
- February 1 - Günter Eich, German writer (d. 1972)
- February 15 - Jean Langlais, French composer and organist (d. 1991)
- February 15 - 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)
- February 22 - Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
- February 27 - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
March
- March 8 - Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
- March 9 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (d. 1986)
- March 12 - Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer
- March 12 - 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)
April
- 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 21 - Wade Mainer, Bluegrass musician
- April 23 - Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (d. 1975)
- April 24 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
- April 29 - Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)
- April 29 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian director (d. 1997)
May
- May 1 - Oliver Hill, Civil Rights Attorney
- 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)
- May 22 - Hergé, Belgian comics author (d. 1983)
- May 22 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor and director (d. 1989)
- May 25 - U Nu, Burmese politician (d. 1995)
- May 26 - John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)
- May 26 - Rachel Carson, American environmental writer (d. 1964)
- May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, German pilot
June
- June 14 - Nicolas Bentley, British writer and illustrator (d. 1978)
- June 14 - 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
- 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)
- July 16 - Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and buisnessman (d. 1995)
- July 27 - Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal rower (d. 1965).
August
- August 2 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and eidtor in chief Bride & Home (d. 1984)
- 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 31 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician
September
- September 3 - Loren Eiseley, Nebraska author, USA (d. 1977)
- September 12 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (d. 1990)
- September 12 - Louis MacNeice, Northern Irish poet (d. 1963)
- September 15 - Fay Wray, Canadian-born actress (d. 2004)
- September 18 - Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
- September 18 - 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
- October 2 - 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 Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)
November
December
Undated
- Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (d. 1973)
- Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
- Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (d. 1998)
Deaths
- 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)
- February 16 - 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 19 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American poet and novelist (b. 1836)
- May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848)
- 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)
- September 4 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
- September 6 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
- 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 17 - Lord Kelvin, Irish-born physicist and engineer (b. 1824)
Nobel Prizes
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