1907

Years: 1904 1905 1906 - 1907 - 1908 1909 1910
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s

Events of 1907

January 1 - Daniel J. Tobin becomes president of the Teamsters, beginning a 45-year presidency
January 6 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome (Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo).
January 14 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
January 14 - The Pyongyang Revival takes place.
January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American US Senator.
February 11 - The French warship Jean Bart sinks off the coast of Morocco.
February 7- The "Mud March", the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), takes place in London.
February 12 - The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives lost.
February 21 - English mail steamship Berlin wrecked off the Hook of Holland; 142 lives lost.
February 24 - The Austrian Lloyd steamship Imperatrix, from Trieste to Bombay, is wrecked on Cape of Crete and sinks; 137 lives lost.

March
- Steamship Congo sunk at mouth of Ems river by German steamship Nerissa; 7 lives lost.
- The French warship Jena is blown up at Toulon; 120 lives lost.
- 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt.
March 5 - The new State Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
March 15 - 16 - First parliamentary elections in Finland, the first elections in the world with woman candidates as well as the first elections in Europe where universal suffrage is applied.
March 18 - First and only train robbery in Sweden (as of 2004)
March 22 - The first taxicabs with taxi meters begin operating in London.
April 1 - Hurlstone Agricultural High School is founded.
April 7 - HersheyPark opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
April 11 - At Porto Cortez, Honduras, the only war vessel of Honduras, the gunboat Ta Tumbla, steams into the harbor flying the American flag and surrenders with a white flag, when the Nicaraguan gunboat San Jacinto steams out to meet her.
April 18 - The USS Kansas (BB-21), a Connecticut-class battleship, is commissioned.

May 7 - Seattle film maker William Harbeck sets up a camera at the front of a B.C. Electric streetcar and films the downtown streets of Vancouver, British Columbia. Pieces of the film, the earliest survivng of the city^[1], have disappeared, only about 7 minutes remain.^[2]
June 1 - Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded for a county cricket match (or for a single day's bowling), and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956.
June 5 - Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a sect of Hinduism which was established by Swami Yagnapurushdas.
June 11 - George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket.
June 15 - The Second Hague Peace Conference is held.

July - Steamship Columbia is sunk off Shelton Cove, California, in collision with steamship San Pedro; 50 lives lost.
July 6 - Guardians of Irish Crown Jewels notice that they have been stolen.
July 19 - Turkish football club Fenerbahce is founded.
July 25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
August 1-9 - Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.
August 17 - Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opens for business.
August 24 to August 31 - International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam.
August 28 - UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
August 31 - Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the establishment of the Triple Entente.

September 1 - Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart is opened in Washington
September 7 - Maiden voyage of new passenger liner RMS Lusitania from Liverpool England to New York City.
September 22 - The transatlantic passenger ship Princess Yolanda sinks during its launch. ^[3]
September 26 - New Zealand and Newfoundland become dominions.
October - A committee of the Delegation for the Adoption of an International Auxiliary Language, made up of academics including Otto Jespersen, Wilhelm Ostwald and Roland Eotvos meet in Paris to select a language for international use. The committee ultimately decides to reform Esperanto.
October 17 - Guglielmo Marconi initiated commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden Ireland and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.
October 24 - A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907.^[4]
October 27 - The Černová tragedy. Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of the Catholic church in Slovakia.
The first non-profit school in California is created, Polytechnic School.

November 7 - ΔΣΠ (Delta Sigma Pi), a co-ed professional business fraternity was founded on at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, New York University, New York, New York.
November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
Maiden voyage of new & largest passenger liner RMS Mauretania from Liverpool England to New York City.
December 6 - Monongah Mining Disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
December 19 - Explosion in coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania - 239 dead.
December 31 - First electric ball drops in Times Square.^[5]

May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, HitlerJugend (Hitler Youth) leader (d. 1974)
July 7 - Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
October 1 - Maurice Bardèche, French neo-fascist writer (d. 1998)
October 12 - Prescott Dennett, Washington lobbyist and defendant in the Great Sedition Trial of 1944 (d. 1992)