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).

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 1 - Daniel J. Tobin becomes president of the Teamsters, beginning a 45-year presidency
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 11 - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
February 7- The "Mud March", the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), takes place in London.
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 State 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 taxicabs with taxi meters begin 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. Pieces of the film, the earliest survivng of the city, have disappeared, only 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 - Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a sect of Hinduism which was 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 19 - Turkish football club Fenerbahce is founded.
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.

September - October

September 1 - Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart is opened in Washington
September 7 - Maiden voyage of new passenger liner RMS Lusitania from Liverpool England to New York City.
September 22 - The transatlantic passenger ship Princess Yolanda sinks during its launch.
September 26 - 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.
October 17 - Guglielmo Marconi initiated commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden Ireland and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
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.
October 27 - 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

November 7 - 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.
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.
December 31 - 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 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 12 - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991)
February 13 - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (d. 2004)
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 (d. 2008)
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)
March 30 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
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 18 - Bert Hazell, British Labour Member of Parliament
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 (d. 2007)
Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)

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 editor 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)

Noriko Awaya, Japanese singer (d. 1999)

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 and civil rights lawmaker (d. 2007)