1907 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1907?
- January 14, 1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
- 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 17, 1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
- April 30, 1907 – Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city.
- June 11, 1907 – George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
- June 14, 1907 – Norway adopts female suffrage.
- June 22, 1907 – The London Underground’s Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
- 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.
- August 3, 1907 – Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.
- August 15, 1907 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, “Priest-Apostolic” to America and the West Indies.
- September 29, 1907 – The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
- November 7, 1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode.
- November 16, 1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
- November 28, 1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
- 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.
- 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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