1907 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1907?
- 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 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.
- May 11, 1907 – 32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California.
- May 23, 1907 – The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
- June 14, 1907 – Norway adopts female suffrage.
- 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 9, 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
- August 15, 1907 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, “Priest-Apostolic” to America and the West Indies.
- August 29, 1907 – The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
- August 31, 1907 – Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance.
- September 26, 1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
- 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 16, 1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
- December 6, 1907 – A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
- 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 16, 1907 – The Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world
- December 19, 1907 – A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
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