Historical Events in December 1907

Boxing Title Fight

Dec 2 Canadian world heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Burns retains his title; KOs Englishman Gunner Moir in 10th round at the National Sporting Club, Covent Garden, London

Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Tommy Burns — Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion
Tommy Burns

Dec 3 George Cohan's musical "Talk of the Town" premieres in NYC
Dec 6 Coal mine explosions in Monongah, West Virginia kills 361
Dec 7 Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring
Dec 7 The First Egyptian Nationalist Congress meets under the leadership of Mustafa Kamil Pasha
Dec 8 King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
Dec 9 First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington, Delaware, post office)
Dec 9 Gustav Mahler departs Vienna

Nobel Prize

Dec 10 Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel prize for literature, the first English-language writer to do so

Poet Rudyard Kipling — Poet
Rudyard Kipling

Dec 10 The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals who have been vivisected.
Dec 11 New Zealand Parliament Buildings almost completely destroyed by fire
Dec 13 George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut v Australia SCG

Event of Interest

Dec 13 German Emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam

German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II — German Emperor and King of Prussia
Wilhelm II

Dec 14 The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Scilly Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
Dec 15 In Persia, the Shah leads a coup de'etat against the liberal Prime Minister Nasir ul-Mulk and imprisons him, but a popular uprising forces the Shah to restore Nasir ul-Mulk soon after
Dec 16 Eugenia Farrar is the 1st to sing over a wireless radio broadcast, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York

Great White Fleet

Dec 16 As a gesture of the US's new presence as a world power, President Theodore Roosevelt sends the 'Great White Fleet' on a round-the-world cruise, visiting ports internationally

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