1907 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1907?
- January 6, 1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
- January 23, 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
- January 26, 1907 – The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use.
- February 7, 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
- February 13, 1907 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- April 24, 1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
- April 30, 1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
- May 27, 1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
- June 26, 1907 – The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
- July 8, 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
- July 29, 1907 – Sir Robert Baden Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
- August 31, 1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
- September 29, 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
- October 17, 1907 – Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
- October 22, 1907 – Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
- November 7, 1907 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
- November 9, 1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
- December 10, 1907 – 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.
- December 14, 1907 – 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.
- December 21, 1907 – The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in in Iquique, Chile.
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