1907 in History

Events in History

Events 1 - 100 of 156

Event of Interest

Jan 1 US President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day

26th US President Theodore Roosevelt — 26th US President
Theodore Roosevelt

Event of Interest

Jan 4 George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" premieres in London

Playwright George Bernard Shaw — Playwright
George Bernard Shaw

Event of Interest

Jan 6 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)

Educator Maria Montessori — Educator
Maria Montessori

Event of Interest

Feb 27 Psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud meet for the first time in Vienna

Father of Psychology Sigmund Freud — Father of Psychology
Sigmund Freud

Psychiatrist Carl Jung — Psychiatrist
Carl Jung

Mar 2 General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
Mar 2 Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce à l'Oreille" premieres in Paris
Mar 5 The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops
Mar 9 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
Mar 9 Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon" premieres in Dublin
Mar 14 By Presidential order, Japanese laborers are excluded from entering the USA
Mar 15 Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
Mar 19 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch, Nevada (state record)
Mar 21 US sends troops to Honduras to halt the Nicaraguan army takeover
Mar 22 The new Boer government in the Transvaal passes an Asiatic Registration Bill, that restricts immigration from India
Mar 24 The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published

Mar 31 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
Apr 12 Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer resigns
Apr 12 In Switzerland, parliament passes a new army bill reorganizing the nation's forces into a standing militia, with training required for all males
Apr 17 Ellis Island, New York records 11,745 immigrants
Apr 18 Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour" premieres in NYC
Apr 18 Fairmont Hotel opens in San Francisco

Event of Interest

Apr 24 Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened

Chocolate Tycoon Milton S. Hershey — Chocolate Tycoon
Milton S. Hershey

Apr 26 Jamestown, Virginia Tercentenary Exposition opens
Apr 30 Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
May 1 Belgium government of De Trooz forms
May 1 Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies)
May 2 Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian government
May 7 Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph)
May 11 Bank of San Francisco incorporated
May 11 A derailment outside Lompoc, California, kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot
May 14 Sweden adopts universal suffrage for elections to its lower house and proportional representation for both houses
May 16 In the Pact of Cartagena, Great Britain, France, and Spain agree to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast of Europe and Africa
May 22 Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Middlesex v Somerset
May 23 The single chamber Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
May 27 Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
May 28 Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held
May 31 Taxis 1st began running in NYC
Jun 1 -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
Jun 3 Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines
Jun 10 France and Japan sign an agreement to maintain the independence and integrity of China, equality for all nations in trading with China, and the status quo in the Far East
Jun 11 Northants all out for 12 v Gloucestershire
Jun 12 Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to Tigers
Jun 13 Lowest temperature ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack, California
Jun 14 Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
Jun 14 Norway adopts female suffrage for middle class women only in parliamentary elections

Jun 15 The 2nd Hague Peace Conference meets in an attempt to stop the arms race; Germany resists, but conference does make important rules around the rights of neutral powers

Historic Publication

Jun 15 Researcher George Soper publishes the results of his investigation into recent typhoid outbreaks in the New York area and announces that Mary Mallon [Typhoid Mary] is the likely source of the outbreak

Event of Interest

Jun 16 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dissolves the Second Duma (parliament) and issues an edict that will increase representation of propertied classes while reducing that of peasants, workers and national minorities

Jun 20 1st Portland Rose festival held in Portland, Oregon
Jun 21 E W Scripps founded United Press
Jun 26 Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
Jul 1 The Orange River Colony, known as the Orange Free State, is granted self-government by the British
Jul 3 Pope decree forbids modernization of theology
Jul 8 Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
Jul 18 Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907" premieres in NYC
Jul 18 French troops occupy Casablanca
Jul 19 Under pressure from the Japanese, the Emperor of Korea abdicates in favor of his son, a figurehead
Jul 20 A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more
Jul 25 Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan
Jul 29 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France

Event of Interest

Jul 29 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England

Founder of Scouts Robert Baden-Powell — Founder of Scouts
Robert Baden-Powell

Jul 30 Russia and Japan sign an agreement guaranteeing freedom of China while recognizing each other's special interests
Jul 30 The Filipinos elect their first legislature; it will meet on 16 October
Jul 30 Starting today, the French bombard Casablanca and land troops to occupy the Atlantic-coast region of Morocco after attacks on foreigners
Aug 1 U.S. Army Signal Corps establish a small Aeronautical Division

Event of Interest

Aug 1 Bank of Italy (later Bank of America) opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, San Francisco

Banker and Entrepreneur Amadeo Giannini — Banker and Entrepreneur
Amadeo Giannini

Aug 1 First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island, in Poole Harbour, Dorset
Aug 3 Emperor Wilhelm (Germany) meets with Tsar Nicholas (Russia) to discuss Germany's plan to build a railroad to Baghdad; the discussion helps move Russia towards Britain and eventually the Triple Alliance
Aug 9 1st Boy Scout camp concludes at Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Southern England
Aug 10 Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
Aug 13 1st taxicabs operate in New York City, imported by Harry N. Allen
Aug 14 "Ha-Tikva" adopted as official Zionist hymn
Aug 16 Mulay Hafid is proclaimed the Sultan of Morocco by supporters leading to civil war; Mulay is supported by Germany while France supports the existing Sultan
Aug 17 Bishop forbids Christian membership of Dutch Textile Union

Birthdays in History

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 257

Jan 2 Edward Albert Radice, economist
Jan 5 Anton Ingolic, Slavic author (After Splavih, After Prelomu), born in Spodnja Polskava, Slovenia (d. 1992)
Jan 5 Willi Soukop, sculptor and member of Royal Academy of Arts, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1995)
Jan 6 David Fleay, Australian naturalist, born in Ballarat, Victoria (d. 1993)
Jan 7 Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist, born in San Sebastián, Spain (d. 1993)
Jan 11 Pierre Mendès-France, French Premier (1954-55) (d. 1982)
Jan 11 Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jewish American rabbi and theologian (d. 1972), born in Warsaw, Poland
Jan 12 Sergei Korolev, Soviet rocket engineer & spacecraft designer, born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine (d. 1966)
Jan 13 Sabine Zlatin, Polish-born French nurse who tried save Izieu children from Nazis), born in Warsaw (d. 1996)
Jan 14 Derek Richter, British neuroscientist (learning & memory), born in bath, United Kingdom (d. 1995)
Jan 14 Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician, born in Paramaribo, Suriname (d. 1955)
Jan 14 Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician, born in Montreal, Canada (d. 1985)
Jan 16 Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist
Jan 16 Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
Jan 20 Roy Welensky, Northern Rhodesian politician, born in Harare, Zimbabwe (d. 1991)
Jan 22 Douglas Corrigan, American pilot, born in Galveston, Texas (d. 1995)
Jan 23 Hediki Yukawa, Japanese physicist (Nobel 1949), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1981)
Jan 24 Alfonse Vranckx, Belgian lawyer/politician
Jan 24 Maurice Couve de Murville, France premier (1968-69)
Jan 26 Hans Selye, Austrian-Canadian endocrinologist, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1982)
Feb 1 Alan Strode Campbell Ross, professor (coined the terms U & non-U)
Feb 1 John Canaday, art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios)
Feb 2 Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic
Feb 3 James A. Michener, American author (Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii), born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (d. 1997)
Feb 5 Jan Klaasesz, Dutch governor Suriname (1949-56)
Feb 5 Norton Simon, American industrialist (Hunts Foods, Norton Simon Museum), born in Portland, Oregon (d. 1993)
Feb 5 Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France
Feb 7 Arthur George Bottomley, politician
Feb 7 Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet mountaineer (d. 1948)
Feb 10 Grace Hamilton, 1st African American member of Georgia state legislature
Feb 12 Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991)
Feb 17 Charles B Timmer, Dutch translator/writer (Russia Black on White)
Feb 18 Harm van Riel, Dutch politician (Dutch Liberal Party)
Feb 20 Owain Jenkins, company director
Feb 21 Wystan Hugh Auden, American poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948)
Feb 23 Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman
Feb 25 Mary Coyle Chase, playwright (Harvey-Pulitzer Prize)
Feb 25 Sabahattin Ali, Turkish poet, author and journalist (Esirler, Içimizdeki Şeytan), born in Eğridere, Gümülcine, Ottoman Empire (d. 1948)
Feb 28 Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, Dutch cartoonist (Terry & Pirates)
Mar 2 Jheri [Robert] Redding, American hairdresser and businessman (created the Jheri curl and hair conditioner), born in Rantoul, Illinois (d. 1998)
Mar 3 Aar van de Werfhorst, [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer
Mar 3 Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter
Mar 4 Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2003)
Mar 8 Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician, President of Greece (1980-85), born in Sérrai, Ottoman Empire (d. 1998)
Mar 11 Eleni Gatzoyiannis, heroine (saved her kids)
Mar 11 Helmuth J von Moltke, German politician (July 20th plot)
Mar 11 Margaret Herbison, British minister (Labour)
Mar 12 (Margaret Peggy McCrorie) Herbison, politician
Mar 12 Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007)
Mar 13 Mircea Eliade, Romanian religious historian (Le Yoga) and author, born in Bucharest, Romania (d. 1986) [O.S. 02-28]
Mar 13 Albert Hughes Williams, teacher and historian (d. 1996)
Mar 13 Maria Pia de Braganca, Portuguese journalist and writer who claimed to be the bastard daughter of King Carlos I of Portugal, born in Lisbon (d. 1995)
Mar 13 Charles Brink, German-born British classical scholar (Horace), born in Berlin (d. 1994)
Mar 17 Jan M J van Houtte, premier Belgium (1952-54)
Mar 19 Nakagawa Soen, Formosa, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)
Mar 22 James Gavin, US 82nd Airborne Division General (Sicily/Normandy), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1990)
Mar 22 Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
Mar 23 Daniel Bovet, Swiss pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
Mar 23 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician
Mar 24 Janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender)
Mar 24 Lauris Norstad, US gen (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass)
Mar 24 Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer
Mar 24 Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
Mar 28 Irving Paul Lazar, American talent agent, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1993)
Mar 30 Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
Apr 3 Isaac Deutscher, Polish-English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography), born in Chrzanów, Poland (d. 1967)
Apr 4 Nathan M. Pusey, American educator, 24th president of Harvard University (1953-71), born in Council Bluffs, Iowa (d. 2001)
Apr 5 Jan Zeldenrust, Dutch pathologist and anatomist, born in Gronigen, Netherlands (d. 1990)
Apr 8 Maurice Stacey, chemist
Apr 11 Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor, born in Llanymynech, Powys (d. 2001)
Apr 12 Felix de Weldon, Austrian-American sculptor (Marine Corps War Memorial), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 2003)
Apr 13 Harold Stassen, American politician (25th Governor of Minnesota) and perennial presidential candidate, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 2001)
Apr 14 François Duvalier "Papa Doc", Dictator of Haiti (1957-71), born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (d. 1971)
Apr 14 Otto Frans Antoine Hubert van Nispen, Dutch mayor (Pannerden), born in Pannerden, Netherlands (d. 1992)
Apr 15 Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-British biologist and zoologist (Nobel 1973), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1988)
Apr 16 August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal, born in Steyr, Austria (d. 1947)
Apr 16 Joseph-Armand Bombardier, French-Canadian inventor and businessman (Bombardier) (d. 1964)
Apr 18 Stephen Longstreet, American writer (All or Nothing), born in New York (d. 2002)
Apr 22 Ivan Yefremov, Russian paleontologist (originator of the concept of taphonomy) and author (Andromeda Nebula), born in Vyritsa, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1972)
Apr 23 Lee Miller, American photographer (War correspondent for Vogue in WWII), born in Poughkeepsie, New York (d. 1977)
Apr 26 Theun de Vries, Dutch writer (The Girl with the Red Hair), born in Veenwouden, Friesland, Netherlands (d. 2005)
Apr 29 Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director (From Here to Eternity, Julia), born in Rzeszów, Austria-Hungary (d. 1997)
May 1 Oliver Hill, American civil rights attorney (Presidential Medal of Freedom 1999), born in Richmond, Virgnia (d. 2007)
May 2 Pinky Lee, American children's show host (Pinky Lee Show), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 1993)
May 3 Earl Wilson, American journalist and columnist (Midnight Earl), born in Rockford, Ohio (d. 2005)
May 4 Lincoln Kirstein, American writer and impresario, born in Rochester, New York (d. 1996)
May 5 Kenneth Muir, English scholar, born in London (d. 1996)
May 9 Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician (Frame)
May 9 Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)
May 11 Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
May 12 Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint)
May 13 Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist
May 13 Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites)
May 13 Laurence Kirwan, archaeologist
May 14 Dick Bentley, entertainer
May 14 Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president (Pakistan)
May 14 Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005)
May 14 Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
May 15 Phillip Piratin, communist
May 15 Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)

Weddings in History

Wedding of Interest

Apr 8 Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (24) weds Bess Fosburgh in Boston, Massachusetts

Wedding of Interest

Sep 18 Author Arthur Conan Doyle (48) weds Jean Elizabeth Leckie

Deaths in History

Jan 8 Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 57
Jan 9 Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Queen of Hanover, dies at 88
Jan 14 Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
Jan 31 Timothy Eaton, Irish-born Canadian department store founder (Eatons), dies at 72

Dmitri Mendeleev

Feb 2 Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor who devised the periodic table of the elements, dies at 72

Feb 8 Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (fasenleer), dies at 52
Feb 10 William Howard Russell, Irish war pioneering correspondent, dies at 87
Feb 11 Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80
Feb 13 Marcel Bertrand, French geologist and mine engineer (tectonic geology), dies at 59
Feb 16 Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate 1906 regarded as the official national poet of modern Italy, dies at 71
Feb 17 Henry Steel Olcott, American military officer and co-founder of the Theosophical Society, dies at 74

Henri Moissan

Feb 20 Henri Moissan, French chemist who isolated the element "fluorine" from its compounds (Nobel 1906), dies of appendicitis at 54

Mar 5 Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
Mar 9 John Alexander Dowie, Scottish-American evangelist (founded the city of Zion, Illinois), dies at 59
Mar 10 Victoria Earle Matthews, American author and activist, dies at 45
Mar 11 Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered
Mar 11 Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
Mar 18 Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
Mar 19 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70
Mar 23 Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary senator, dies at 79
Apr 5 Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Neth), dies at 65
Apr 5 Laura de Force Gordon, California lawyer, a prominent suffragette, and 1st woman to run a daily newspaper in the US (Stockton Daily Leader, 1874), dies at 68
Apr 23 Alfred Packer, American Cannibal (b. 1842)
May 12 J K Huysmans, writer, dies at 59
May 19 Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer who designed the bridge over the Firth of Forth, Scotland and the London underground, dies at 67
May 26 Ida McKinley, US First Lady (1897-1901) and wife of the 25th US President William McKinley, dies at 59
Jun 14 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies
Jun 15 William Le Baron Jenney, American architect (father of skyscraper), dies at 74
Jun 27 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College, dies at 84
Jul 5 Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahler's eldest daughter, dies at 5
Jul 6 August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
Jul 14 William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
Jul 15 Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist, and writer considered a national heroine in China, executed after a failed uprising at 32
Jul 19 Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77
Jul 28 James Henry Lane, US Brigadier General during Civil War (Confederate) and professor, dies at 74
Aug 3 August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59
Aug 16 James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
Aug 18 John Kerr, Scottish physicist and pioneer in the field of electro-optics (electro-visually Kerr-effect), dies at 82
Aug 24 Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58
Sep 7 R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies
Sep 9 Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
Sep 28 Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907), dies at 81
Oct 8 Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65
Oct 20 Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834)
Oct 21 Jules Chevalier, French Roman Catholic priest (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart), dies at 83
Nov 1 Alfred Jarry, French writer (ubu Roi), dies at 33
Nov 14 Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)
Nov 16 Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma, dies at 59
Nov 22 Asaph Hall, American astronomer who discovered satellites of Mars (Phobos & Deimos), dies at 78
Nov 28 Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
Dec 3 Allen Thomas, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 76
Dec 8 Oscar II Frederick, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies

William Thomson

Dec 17 William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish mathematical physicist (Kelvin Scale) and engineer (transatlantic telegraph), dies of a chill at 83

Dec 21 Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58
Dec 24 Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies
Dec 31 Jules de Trooz, Belgium PM, dies at 63

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