1907 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1907?
- January 6, 1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
- February 7, 1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
- 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 27, 1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
- June 22, 1907 – The London Underground’s Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
- July 8, 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
- August 9, 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
- September 7, 1907 – Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
- September 30, 1907 – McKinley National Memorial, final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
- October 17, 1907 – Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
- 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 9, 1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
- December 6, 1907 – A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
- 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 11, 1907 – The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
- 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.
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