Today in History for Year 1907

Months in Year 1907: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 176

Jan 1st - Pres Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day
Jan 4th - George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in London
Jan 6th - Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
Jan 7th - Clyde Fitch' "Truth," premieres in NYC
Jan 12th - Britain grants responsible government to former colony of Transvaal
Jan 14th - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
Jan 15th - 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee De Forest
Jan 15th - Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them
Jan 21st - Kenora Thistles sweep Mont Wanderers in 2 for Stanley Cup
Jan 23rd - Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
Jan 25th - Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
Jan 26th - 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
Jan 26th - J M Synge's "Playboy of Western World" opens; police are called
Jan 26th - The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
Feb 5th - Arnold Schoenberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna
Feb 7th - The Mud March was the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
Feb 11th - De Master's Dutch government resigns
Feb 11th - Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die
Feb 13th - English suffragettes storm British Parliament & 60 women are arrested
Educator Maria Montessori Feb 14th - 1st US fox hound association forms in NYC
Feb 21st - SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Neth (142 dead)
Feb 22nd - 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
Feb 22nd - Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka," premieres in St Petersburg
Feb 25th - George Bernard Shaw's "Philanderer," premieres in London
Feb 25th - US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
Feb 26th - Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP)
Feb 26th - US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500
Mar 2nd - General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
Mar 2nd - Georges Feydeaus' "La Puce à l'Oreille," premieres in Paris
Mar 5th - 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
Mar 5th - The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
Mar 9th - 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
Mar 9th - Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin
Mar 15th - Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
Mar 16th - 1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW & Western Australia
Mar 19th - 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's Ranch, Nevada (state record)
Mar 21st - US invades Honduras
Mar 24th - The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
Mar 25th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set but outscore them 12-8 and win cup
Mar 31st - Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
Apr 11th - NY Giant Roger Bresnahan becomes 1st catcher to wear shin guards
Apr 12th - Belgium government of De Stain de Naeyer, resigns
Apr 17th - Ellis Island, NY-11,745 immigrants arrive
Apr 18th - Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour," premieres in NYC
Apr 18th - Fairmont Hotel opens
Apr 19th - 11th Boston Marathon won by Tom Longboat of Canada in 2:24:24
Chocolate Tycoon Milton S. Hershey Apr 24th - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
Apr 26th - Jamestown, Va Tercentenary Exposition opens
Apr 30th - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
May 1st - Belgium government of De Trooz forms
May 1st - Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies)
May 2nd - Belgium Jules baron de Trooz forms Belgian government
May 6th - 33rd Kentucky Derby: Andy Minder aboard Pink Star wins in 2:12.6
May 7th - Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph)
May 8th - Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer no-hits Cin Reds, 6-0
May 8th - Tommy Burns beats Jack O'Brien in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
May 10th - Paul Dukas' opera "Ariane et Barbe Bleue," premieres in Paris
May 11th - Bank of SF incorporated
May 11th - A derailment outside Lompoc, California kills 32 Shriners when their chartered train jumps off the tracks at a switch near Surf Depot.
May 21st - 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
May 22nd - Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Mddx v Somerset
May 23rd - The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
May 26th - Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits NY Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game
May 27th - Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF
May 28th - Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy, 1st held
May 30th - 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins
May 31st - Taxis 1st began running in NYC
Jun 1st - -27°F (-33°C), Sarmiento, Argentina (South American record)
Jun 3rd - Centro Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in Manila, Philippines.
Jun 4th - Automatic washer & dryer introduced
Jun 5th - Automatic washer & dryer are introduced
Jun 11th - Northants all out for 12 v Gloucestershire
Jun 11th - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
Jun 12th - Yanks commit 11 errors & lose 14-6 to Tigers
Jun 13th - Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2°F in Tamarack Calif
Jun 14th - Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
Jun 14th - Norway restricts woman's voting rights
Jun 14th - Norway adopts female suffrage.
Jun 15th - 44 nations meet in 2nd Hague Peace Conference
Jun 20th - 1st Portland Rose festival
Jun 21st - 13th US Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Phila Cricket Club PA
Jun 21st - E W Scripps founded United Press
Jun 26th - Bolsheviks overthrows transport in Tiflis
Jun 28th - Nationals steal a record 13 bases off catcher Branch Rickey
Jul 1st - World's 1st air force established (US Army)
Jul 3rd - Pope decree forbids modernization of theology
Jul 4th - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
Jul 8th - Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
Jul 18th - Florenz Ziegfeld's "Follies of 1907," premieres in NYC
Jul 18th - French troops occupy Casablanca
Jul 20th - A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan kills thirty and injures seventy more.
Jul 23rd - 7th Davis Cup: Australasia beats British Isles in Wimbledon (3-2)
Jul 25th - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
Jul 29th - 1st helicopter ascent in Douai, France
Jul 29th - Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
Aug 1st - Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF
Aug 1st - Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division
Aug 1st - First Scout camp opens on Brownsea Island.
Aug 2nd - Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington & loses 3-2 to Detroit
Aug 7th - Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 509

Jan 1st - Erich Schmid, composer
Jan 2nd - Edward Albert Radice, economist
Jan 2nd - Salvador Ley, composer
Jan 3rd - Anna May Wong, LA California, actress (Impact, Study in Scarlet)
Jan 5th - Anton Ingolic, Slavic author (After Splavih, After Prelomu)
Jan 5th - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor
Jan 5th - Willi Soukop, sculptor
Jan 6th - David Fleay, Australian naturalist (d. 1993)
Jan 7th - Nicanor Zabaleta, San Sebastian, Spain, harpist
Jan 11th - Pierre Mendès-France, French Premier (1954-55) (d. 1982)
Jan 12th - Sergei Korolev, scientist
Jan 12th - Patsy Kelly, American actress (d. 1981)
Jan 13th - Sabine Zlatin, nurse
Jan 14th - Derek Richter, British neuro chemist (Aspects of learning & memory)
Jan 14th - Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician
Jan 14th - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (d. 1985)
Jan 16th - Alexander Knox, Canada, actor (Gorky Park, 2 of a Kind)
Jan 16th - Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist
Jan 16th - Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
Jan 17th - Henk H Badings, Bandung Indonesia, Dutch opera composer (Orestes)
Jan 18th - Janos Ferencsik, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera)
Jan 19th - Lillian Harvey, London England, actress (Invitation to the Waltz)
Jan 20th - Roy Welensky, Premier (Rhodesia/Nyasaland 1956-63)
Jan 22nd - Marie Dressler, actress (Anna Christie, Dinner at 8)
Jan 22nd - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
Jan 22nd - Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
Jan 22nd - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
Jan 23rd - Dan Duryea, White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees)
Jan 23rd - Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)
Jan 24th - Alfonse Vranckx, Belgian lawyer/politician
Jan 24th - Maurice Couve de Murville, France premier (1968-69)
Jan 26th - Eddie Ballantine, Chicago, orchestra leader (Don McNeill TV Club)
Jan 26th - Henry Cotton, English golfer (British Open 1934, 1937, 1948)
Jan 27th - Henry Cotton, English golf champion (won 3x British Open)
Jan 28th - Constantin Regamey, composer
Feb 1st - Alan Strode Campbell Ross, professor (coined the terms U & non-U)
Feb 1st - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazil, composer/conductor
Feb 1st - John Canaday, art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios)
Feb 1st - Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, composer
Feb 2nd - Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic
Feb 3rd - James A Michner, NYC, writer (South Pacific, Hawaii, Space)
Feb 3rd - James Michener, American author (d. 1997)
Feb 5th - Jan Klaasesz, Dutch governor Suriname (1949-56)
Feb 5th - Norton Simon, business executive (Simon & Schuster)
Feb 5th - Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France
Feb 6th - Sam Green, industrialist/inventor
Feb 7th - Arthur George Bottomley, politician
Feb 7th - Yevgeniy Abalakov, Soviet mountaineer (d. 1948)
Feb 9th - Aubrey "Dit" Clapper, NHL hall of famer (Boston Bruins)
Feb 10th - Grace Hamilton, 1st black member of Georgia state legislature
Feb 11th - E W Swanton, author & sports commentator
Feb 12th - Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991)
Feb 13th - Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (d. 2004)
Feb 14th - Johnny Longden, jockey/trainer (1958 Racing Hall of Fame)
Actor Cesar Romero (Feb 15th) Feb 15th - Cesar Romero, NYC, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, Thin Man)
Feb 15th - Jean Langlais, composer
Feb 16th - Fernando Previtali, composer
Feb 16th - Henri van Albada, Belgian sculptor (Charles V)
Feb 17th - Alec Wilder, Rochester NY, composer (1973 ASCAP award)
Feb 17th - Charles B Timmer, Dutch translator/writer (Russia Black on White)
Feb 18th - Billy Dewolfe, Wollaston Mass, actor (Good Morning World)
Feb 18th - Harm van Riel, Dutch politician (Dutch Liberal Party)
Feb 20th - Malcolm Atterbury, Phila, actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way)
Feb 20th - Nadine Conner, California, soprano (Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute)
Feb 20th - Owain Jenkins, company director
Feb 21st - Wystan Hugh Auden, US, poet (Age of Anxiety-Pulitzer 1948)
Feb 22nd - Robert Young, Chic Ill, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD)
Feb 22nd - Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
Feb 23rd - Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman
Feb 25th - Mary Coyle Chase, playwright (Harvey-Pulitzer Prize)
Feb 25th - Shimen Rushkin, Poland, actor (Beau Brummel, Having a Wonderful Time)
Feb 26th - Dub Taylor, American actor (d. 1994)
Feb 27th - Gerhard Alexander, [Veldheer], Dutch actor (Prince Willem of Orange)
Feb 27th - Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
Feb 28th - Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, Dutch cartoonist (Terry & Pirates)
Mar 1st - Lois Moran, Pitts, actress (Mom-Waterfront)
Mar 3rd - Aar van de Werfhorst, [Pieter G Jansen], Dutch writer
Mar 3rd - Canada Lee, NYC, actor (Lost Boundaries)
Mar 3rd - Joy Finzi, [Joyce A Black], British painter
Mar 4th - Edgar Barrier, NY, actor (Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered)
Mar 4th - Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (d. 2003)
Mar 7th - Juan Francisco Giacobbe, composer
Mar 8th - Charles Boost, movie critic
Mar 8th - Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician, President of Greece (d. 1998)
Mar 9th - Henry Leland Clarke, composer
Mar 10th - Robert de Roos, composer
Mar 11th - Eleni Gatzoyiannis, heroine (saved her kids)
Mar 11th - Helmuth J von Moltke, German politician (July 20th plot)
Mar 11th - Jessie Matthews, London England, actress (Gangway, First a Girl)
Mar 11th - Margaret Herbison, British minister (Lab)
Mar 12th - (Margaret Peggy McCrorie) Herbison, politician
Mar 12th - Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997)
Mar 12th - Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007)
Mar 13th - Mircea Eliade, religious historian (Le Yoga) [O.S. 02-28]
Mar 13th - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian
Mar 13th - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to the Portuguese throne
Mar 13th - Frank Wilcox, DeSoto Mo, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies)
Mar 13th - Oscar Brink, latinist
Mar 15th - Jimmy McPartland, jazz trumpeteer/actor (Magic Horn)
Mar 15th - Paul Maxey, Wheaton Ill, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 79 of 79

Jan 1st - Cyrill Kistler, composer, dies at 58
Jan 3rd - Josef Foerster, composer, dies at 73
Jan 6th - Walter Read, cricketer (Engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v Aust 1884), dies
Jan 7th - Anton Urspruch, composer, dies at 56
Jan 8th - Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 57
Jan 14th - Karl von Perfall, composer, dies at 82
Jan 14th - Sir James Fergusson, British politician, and governor of South Australia, New Zealand and Bombay (b. 1832)
Jan 16th - Alfred Shaw, cricketer (seven Tests for England 1877-82), dies
Jan 25th - René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
Jan 31st - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
Feb 2nd - Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at 72
Feb 5th - Ludwig Thuille, composer, dies at 45
Feb 8th - Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (fasenleer), dies at 52
Feb 11th - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80
Feb 13th - Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, dies at 59
Feb 16th - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1835)
Feb 17th - Henry Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society-Madras), dies
Feb 17th - Henry Steel Olcott, US co-founder (Theosophist Society), dies at 74
Feb 20th - Henri Moissan [Ferdinand-Frederic-], chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54
Chemist and Nobel Laureate Henri Moissan (Feb 20th) Feb 24th - Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77
Mar 5th - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
Mar 7th - Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer, dies at 64
Mar 11th - Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered
Mar 11th - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
Mar 18th - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
Mar 19th - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US writer (Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70
Mar 23rd - Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary senator, dies at 79
Mar 28th - Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer, dies at 65
Apr 5th - Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Neth), dies at 65
Apr 23rd - Alfred Packer, American Cannibal (b. 1842)
Apr 26th - Pietro Plantania, composer, dies at 79
May 11th - John Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54
May 12th - J K Huysmans, writer, dies at 59
May 19th - Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840)
May 26th - Ida McKinley, First Lady of the United States (b. 1847)
Jun 4th - Agathe Grondahl, composer, dies at 59
Jun 9th - Manuel Estrada Vabrera, president Guatemala, murdered
Jun 14th - A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies
Jun 14th - Bob McLeod, cricketer (bro of Charlie, 6 Tests for Aus 1891-93), dies
Jun 15th - William Le Baron Jenney, US architect, dies
Jun 27th - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
Jul 5th - Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahler's eldest daughter, dies at 5
Jul 6th - August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
Jul 7th - James McGranahan, composer, dies at 67
Jul 14th - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
Jul 19th - Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77
Aug 3rd - August Saint-Gaudens, Irish/US sculptor (Mrs Henry Adams), dies at 59
Aug 5th - Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66
Aug 15th - Joseph Joachim, German violinist/composer, dies at 76
Aug 16th - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
Aug 18th - John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82
Aug 24th - Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58
Aug 30th - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
Sep 4th - Edvard Grieg, composer, dies at 64
Sep 4th - Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), dies at 64
Sep 7th - R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies
Sep 9th - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (b. 1840)
Sep 17th - Ignaz Brull, composer, dies at 60
Sep 28th - Frederich I W L, Grand Duke of Baden (1856-1907), dies at 81
Oct 3rd - Alfred Reisenauer, composer, dies at 43
Oct 4th - Alfredo Kiel, composer, dies at 57
Oct 8th - Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65
Oct 9th - Romualdo Marenco, composer, dies at 66
Oct 20th - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b.1834)
Oct 25th - Edmund Hart Turpin, composer, dies at 72
Nov 1st - Alfred Jarry, writer, dies at 33
Nov 11th - Henry Gadsby, composer, dies at 64
Nov 14th - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)
Nov 15th - Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer, dies at 73
Nov 16th - Robert I, Duke of Parma, last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848)
Nov 21st - Gaetano Braga, composer, dies at 78
Nov 21st - Harry Boyle, round-arm cricket bowler (12 of Aust's early Tests), dies
Nov 28th - Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer, dies at 43
Nov 28th - Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (b. 1869)
Dec 8th - Oscar II Frederick, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies
Dec 17th - Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83
Dec 21st - Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58
Dec 24th - Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies
Dec 31st - Jules de Trooz, Belgium PM, dies at 63