Today in History for Year 1907 (Part 2)

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

Historical Events

Events 101 - 176 of 176

Aug 9th - The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England.
Aug 10th - Prince Scipone Borchesi wins Beijing to Paris, 7,500 mile auto rally
Aug 11th - St Louis Card Ed Karger pitches perfect game vs Braves, 4-0 in 7 inn
Aug 13th - 1st taxicab (NYC)
Aug 14th - "Ha-Tikva" adopted as official Zionist hymn
Aug 16th - Abd al-Hafid proclaims himself sultan of Morocco
Aug 17th - Bishop forbids Christian membership in Dutch Textile Union
Aug 22nd - Colin Buchanan, town planner
Aug 22nd - Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist
Aug 23rd - Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
Aug 26th - Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
Aug 28th - United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
Aug 28th - UPS is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.
Aug 29th - The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.
Aug 31st - Britain & Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet
Aug 31st - England, Russia & France form Triple Entente
Sep 7th - Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire
Sep 8th - Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism)
Sep 12th - Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record)
Sep 13th - Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders & Montreal Foot Ball
Sep 20th - Pitts Nick Maddox no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-1
Sep 23rd - Proclamation sets fineness & weight of silver & bronze coins of Canada
Sep 25th - Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony, premieres
Sep 26th - NZ declares independence from UK
Sep 26th - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
Sep 29th - Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
Sep 30th - Cards Ed Konetchy steals home twice & Joe Delahanty also steals home for record 3 steals of home (vs Boston)
Oct 1st - Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str, NY) opens
Oct 2nd - Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader vs Giants
Oct 5th - Interprovincial Rugby Football Union plays 1st game (Mtl 17 Tor 8)
Oct 5th - Phila A's Rube Vickers no-hits Wash Senators, 4-0 in 5 inning game
Oct 7th - France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane
Oct 12th - Cubs beat Tigers 4 games to 0 with 1 tie in 4th World Series
Oct 16th - Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St NYC
Oct 16th - David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in NYC
Oct 17th - Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
Oct 19th - 1st printing of Dutch Tribune (Wijnkoop/Van Ravesteyn/Ceton)
Oct 22nd - Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus
Oct 22nd - Panic of 1907: A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
Oct 25th - Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden
Oct 31st - Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club's 1st game defeating Strathcona Rugby Foot-ball Club 15-0 at Calgary
Nov 2nd - Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published
Nov 7th - Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico
Nov 7th - Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins
Nov 7th - Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
Nov 9th - Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds
Nov 9th - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
Nov 13th - French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor)
Nov 16th - Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state
Nov 28th - In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
Nov 30th - Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
Dec 2nd - English Professional Football Player's Association forms
Dec 2nd - Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
Dec 3rd - George Cohans musical "Talk of the Town," premieres in NYC
Dec 6th - Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
Dec 7th - Eugene Corri becomes 1st referee in a boxing ring
Dec 8th - King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
Dec 9th - 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
Dec 9th - Gustav Mahler departs Vienna
Poet Rudyard Kipling Dec 10th - Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
Dec 10th - 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.
Dec 11th - New Zealand Parliament Buildings almost completely destroyed by fire.
Dec 13th - George Gunn scores 119 on Test debut v Australia SCG
Dec 13th - German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam
Dec 14th - 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.
Dec 16th - Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Bkln Navy Yard NY)
Dec 16th - Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
Dec 17th - Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
Dec 19th - 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania
Dec 20th - Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
Dec 21st - Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget
Dec 22nd - Saint-Saëns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St Petersburg
Dec 23rd - 1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa
Dec 30th - Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
Dec 31st - For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year
Dec 31st - G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 101 - 200 of 509

Mar 15th - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
Mar 17th - Jan M J van Houtte, premier Belgium (1952-54)
Mar 17th - Sonny Werblin, former owner of the New York Jets (d. 1991)
Mar 18th - Eleanor L "Betty" Compton, US actress (Here Comes Trouble)
Mar 19th - Cor Treslem, [Cornelis L Melsert], actor/director (Willem van Oranje)
Mar 19th - Elizabeh LeFanu Maconochy, composer
Mar 19th - Kent Smith, NYC, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders)
Mar 19th - Marc Vaubourgoin, composer
Mar 19th - Nakagawa Soen, Formosa, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)
Mar 22nd - James Gavin, US, 82nd Airborne Div General (Sicily/Normandy)
Mar 22nd - Paul J Steenbergen, Neth, actor (Ciske Rat)/founder (Hague's Comedy)
Mar 22nd - Lúcia Santos, Portuguese nun (d. 2005)
Mar 23rd - Daniel Bovet, Switzerland, pharmacologist (Nobel 1957)
Mar 23rd - Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician
Mar 24th - Janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender)
Mar 24th - Lauris Norstad, US gen (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass)
Mar 24th - Lucia Chase, US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater)
Mar 24th - Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer
Mar 24th - Martin Kosleck, Germany, actor (Pursuit to Algiers)
Mar 24th - Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
Mar 26th - Leigh Harline, composer
Mar 26th - Louis Saguer, composer
Mar 27th - Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
Mar 28th - Herbert "Herb" Hall, clarinetist/saxophonist
Mar 28th - "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (d. 1993)
Mar 29th - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
Mar 30th - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
Mar 31st - Eddie Quillan, Phila, actor (Julia, Hell Town)
Apr 1st - Walter Kaufmann, composer
Apr 2nd - Luke Appling, American baseball player (d. 1991)
Apr 3rd - Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography)
Apr 4th - Nathan M Pusey, Iowa, educator (Natl Ass for Social Sciences-1963)
Apr 5th - J Zeldenrust, Dutch pathologist/anatomist
Apr 8th - Maurice Stacey, chemist
Apr 10th - Pete Desjardins, US, platform/springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1928)
Apr 11th - Paul Douglas, Phila Pa, actor (Adventure Theater, Clash by Night)
Apr 11th - William Henry Swinburne, music teacher
Apr 11th - Ivor Spencer-Thomas, English farmer, entrepreneur and inventor (d. 2001)
Apr 12th - Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
Apr 12th - Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (d. 1979)
Apr 13th - Harold Stassen, W St Paul Minn, (Gov-R-Minn) perennial pres candidate
Apr 14th - Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti
Apr 14th - Otto F A H van Nispen, Dutch mayor (Pannerden)/MP (KVP)
Apr 14th - Phyllis Konstam, London England, actress (Murder, Skin Game)
Apr 15th - Gerald Abrahams, Liverpool, author (Teach Yourself Chess)
Apr 15th - Nicholas Tinbergen, Neth/British biologist/zoologist (Nobel 1973)
Apr 16th - August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (d. 1947)
Apr 16th - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, French-Canadian inventor and businessman (Bombardier) (d. 1964)
Apr 18th - Miklos Rozsa, Budapest Hungary, movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora)
Apr 18th - Stephen Longstreet, American writer (All or Nothing)
Apr 19th - Alan Wheatley, England, actor (Adventure of Robin Hood)
Apr 19th - Gino Contilli, composer
Apr 19th - Lina Basquette, Mateo Cal, actress (Paradise Park, Pleasure, Goldie)
Apr 20th - Miran Bux, cricketer (his one season of Test & 1st-class play 1954-55)
Apr 20th - William Dollar, St Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer
Apr 21st - Antoni Szalowski, composer
Apr 21st - Beatrice Kay, NYC, singer/actress, Sister Sue-Calvin & Col)
Apr 22nd - Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972)
Apr 23rd - Baroness Dudley
Apr 24th - Vaclav Trojan, composer
Apr 25th - Paula Trueman, NYC, actress (Gran-Billy)
Apr 25th - Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer
Apr 26th - Theun de Vries, writer (February; PC Hooft prize 1981)
Apr 29th - Fred Zinneman, Austria, director (From Here to Eternity, Julia)
Apr 29th - Tino Rossi, Ajaccio France, singer (Deux Amours, Marlene)
May 1st - Jan Pauw, CEO (Aruban Theater Group)
May 1st - Oliver Hill, civil rights attorney (d. 2007)
May 1st - Kate Smith, American singer (d. 1986)
May 2nd - Pinky Lee, children's show host (Pinky Lee Show)
May 3rd - Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl)
May 4th - Lincoln Kirstein, American impresario (d. 1996)
May 5th - Benny Baker, St Joseph MO, actor (18 Again, Sting II, Thunderbirds)
May 5th - Kenneth Muir, English scholar
May 5th - Yoritsune Matsudaira, composer
May 6th - Weeb Ewbank, NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, NY Jets)
May 7th - Jef van Durme, composer
May 9th - Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician (Frame)
May 9th - Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)
May 9th - Fred Warngård, Swedish athlete (d. 1950)
May 10th - Harilaos Perpessas, composer
May 11th - Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
May 11th - Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)
May 12th - Katharine Hepburn, Hartford CT, actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond)
May 12th - Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint)
May 13th - Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist
May 13th - Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites)
May 13th - Laurence Kirwan, archaeologist
May 14th - Dick Bentley, entertainer
May 14th - Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president (Pakistan)
May 14th - Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005)
May 14th - Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
May 15th - Josef Alexander, composer
May 15th - Phillip Piratin, communist
May 15th - Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
May 16th - Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1932)
May 17th - Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power
May 17th - Horace McMahon, South Norwalk Ct, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye)
May 17th - Ilona Schacherer Elek, Budapest Hung, fencer (Olympic-gold-1936, 48)
May 18th - Clifford Curzon, London England, pianist (MacFarren Gold Medal)
May 18th - Robley D Evans, nuclear physicist