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•  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.
•  May 23, 1907 – The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
•  July 8, 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
•  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 15, 1907 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, “Priest-Apostolic” to America and the West Indies.
•  August 17, 1907 – Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened.
•  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 17, 1907 – Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan
•  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.

•  February 12, 1907 – Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991)
•  March 29, 1907 – “Braguinha”, Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006)
•  May 3, 1907 – Dorothy Young, American entertainer (d. 2011)
•  May 11, 1907 – Rip Sewell, American baseball player (d. 1989)
•  July 29, 1907 – Melvin Belli, American lawyer and actor (d. 1996)
•  September 24, 1907 – Ben Oakland, American composer, lyricist and pianist (d. 1979)
•  October 9, 1907 – Horst Wessel, German Nazi and songwriter (d. 1930)
•  October 19, 1907 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
•  November 19, 1907 – Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
•  December 23, 1907 – Avraham Stern, Polish-born Zionist leader (d. 1942)