1907 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1907?
- January 23, 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
- February 13, 1907 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- April 17, 1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
- 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.
- June 11, 1907 – George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
- 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 1, 1907 – The start of first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
- September 7, 1907 – Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
- September 26, 1907 – New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
- September 29, 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
- September 30, 1907 – McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
- 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 9, 1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
- November 28, 1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
- 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 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.
- December 21, 1907 – The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in in Iquique, Chile.
- December 31, 1907 – The first New Year’s Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York, New York.
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