1907 Details, Meaning 1907 Article and Explanation Guide

1907 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Years: 1904 1905 1906 - 1907 - 1908 1909 1910
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1907 in art 1907 in aviation 1907 in film 1907 in literature 1907 in music 1907 in science 1907 in sports 1907 in Canada 1907 in Ireland List of state leaders in 1907 List of religious leaders in 1907 List of international organization leaders in 1907

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel Prizes

Events

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 a 1,000
January 23 - Charles Curtis from Kansas, becomes the first Native American US Senator.
March 5 - The new Duma is opened in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators had to be dispersed by Russian troops.
March 18 - Train robbery in Sweden (first and only as of 2004)
March 22 - The first cabs with taxi meters began operating in London
May 27 - A Bubonic plague outbreak begins in San Francisco, California.
July 25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
August 1-9 - Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, England.
September 26 - New Zealand becomes a dominion
November 16 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
December 19 - Explosion in coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania - 239 dead

The Diamond Sutra of 868, a Buddhist scripture later dated as earliest example of block printing, is discovered in the Mogao Caves.
The triode thermionic amplifier invented by Lee DeForest, starting the development of electronics as a practical technology.
The Autochrome Lumière is the first color photography process marketed.
Herero Wars end
French warship Jena explodes - 117 dead
First parliamentary elections in the Philippines
Adlon Hotel finished in Berlin

Births

January 3 - Ray Milland, actor (d. 1986)
January 19 - Lilian Harvey, actress (d. 1968)
January 20 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress (d. 1990)
January 20 - Paula Wessely, actress (d. 2000)
January 23 - Dan Durya, actor (d. 1968)
February 1 - Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972)
February 11 - E W Swanton, author & sports commentator (d. 1990)
February 15 - Cesar Romero, actor (d. 1994)
February 17 - Buster Crabbe, swimming champion, actor (d. 1983)
February 21 - W. H. Auden, English poet (d. 1973)
February 22 - Robert Young, actor (d. 1998)
February 22 - Sheldon Leonard, actor, writer, director, producer (d. 1997)
February 27 - Mildred Bailey, jazz performer (d. 1951)
March 8 - Constantine Caramanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998)
March 11 - Helmut von Moltke, jurist (d. 1945)
March 15 - Zarah Leander, actress and singer (d. 1981)
April 3 - Iron Eyes Cody, actor (d. 1999)
April 12 - Felix de Weldon, sculptor (d. 2003)
April 29 - Tino Rossi, French singer (d. 1983)
May 8 - Wof Stefan Traugott Graf von Baudissin, general (d. 1993)
May 9 - Baldur von Schirach, Nazi official (d. 1974)
May 11 - Rose Ausänder, poet (d. 1988)
May 12 - Katharine Hepburn, actress (d. 2003)
May 13 - Dame Daphne du Maurier, author (d. 1989)
May 14 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
May 22 - Hergé, Belgian writer-artist (d. 1983)
May 22 - Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, director (d. 1989)
May 26 - John Wayne ("The Duke"), actor (d. 1979)
May 30 - Elly Beinhorn, pilot
June 14 - René Char, French poet (d. 1988)
July 6 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (d. 1954)
July 7 - Robert Heinlein, American (science fiction author) (d. 1988)
August 12 - Joe Besser, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1988)
August 13 - Viscount William Waldorf Astor, British parliamentarian (d. 1966)
September 15 - Fay Wray, actress (d. 2004)
September 18 - Leon Askin, actor
October 5 - Mrs. Miller, singer (d. 1997)
October 9 - Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone, British politician (d. 2001)
October 15 - Varian Fry, ran an escape network in wartime Marseille, France (d. 1967)
October 19 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, band leader (d. 1962)
October 22 - Jimmie Foxx, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1967)
November 14 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author of children's books (d. 2002)
December 7 - [Lily] Teresa Ferster Glazier (Glazier is her married name), American author of The Least You Should Know About English
December 23 - James Roosevelt, businessman, politician (d. 1991)
December 27 - Johann Wilhelm Trollmann, German boxer (d. 1943)
Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, later Sultan of Terengganu and 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
Zhang Chongren , Chinese artist.

Deaths

January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev periodic table
January 31 - Timothy Eaton, department store founder
February 11 - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch monastery founder
May 12 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, author
May 19 - Benjamin Baker, English engineer
August 15 - Joseph Joachim, violinist
August 16 - James Hector, geologist
September 4 - Edvard Grieg, composer
November 28 - Stanisław Wyspiański;, Polish dramatist, poet, painter, architect (b. 1869)
December 17 - Lord Kelvin, physicist and engineer, created kelvin temperature scale

Nobel Prizes

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