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Template:Year nav Template:C20YearInTopic 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 Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1907 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Undated 2 Births 2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 2.7 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 January - June 3.2 July - December 4 Nobel Prizes 5 Notes

Events of 1907

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.

• January - The British steamship Pengwern foundered in the North Sea: crew and 24 men lost.

• January - The Prinz Waldemar, Hamburg-American line, ran aground at Kingston, Jamaica, after earthquake: 3 lives lost.

• January 27 - On this date 12 people gathered together in the southeast cornor of Dawson County, Texas and banded together to form a new church. Choosing the name of Bethany and following the Baptist example of Rev. Berryman, Pastor of Lamesa Baptist Church, the church has continued to serve the Midway Community for 100 years. In 1912 the church joined with another church, Mt. Olive and renamed the church Midway Baptist Church, Lamesa, TX.

February

• February 12 - The steamship Larchmont was in collision 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, wrecked on Cape of Crete and sunk: 137 lives lost.

• February - The French warship Jean Bart was sunk off the coast of Morocco.

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

• March - Steamship Congo sunk at mouth of Ems river by German steamship Nerissa: 7 lives lost.

• March - The French warship Jena was blown up at Toulon: 120 lives lost.

April

• April 11 - At Porto Cortez, Honduras: the only war vessel of Honduras, the gunboat Ta Tumbla, steamed into the harbor flying the American flag and surrendered with a white flag, when the Nicaraguan gunboat San Jacinto steamed out to meet her.

• April 18 - The USS Kansas (BB-21), a Connecticut-class battleship, was commissioned.

• April - The April 1907 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine displayed the cover price "One Dollar a Year" (under title).

May

• May 13 - In a letter from Carl G. Jung to Sigmund Freud (one of several letters exchanged), Jung warns Freud that they are both criticized in a review of Jung's new book in Gaupp's Zentralblatt.<ref>

    "Jung, C.G. (1907). Letter from C. G. Jung to Sigmund Freud, May 13, 1907" (preview),
    Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, 2006, webpage:
    PEP-Jung-1907-0513.

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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 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

• July 6 - Guardians of Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
• July 25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
• July - Steamship Columbia was sunk off Shelton Cove, California, in collision with steamship San Pedro: 50 lives lost.

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

• September 26 - New Zealand and Newfoundland become a dominion.

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 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.
• 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

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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 - 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-April

• 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)
• 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 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-June

• 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 14 - Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
• 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 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-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)
• July 16 - Orville Redenbacher, American botanist and businessman (d. 1995)
• July 27 - Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal rower (d. 1965).

• 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 31 - Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician
• August 31 - Ray Berres, former baseball player

September-October

• 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 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 Harold Hewitt, Irish poet (d. 1987)
• October 30 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist (d. 1995)

November-December

• November 14 - Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1995)
• November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children's writer (d. 2002)
• November 14 - 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 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)

Unknown dates

• 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 - June

• 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)

July - December

• 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

• 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

Notes

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