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1907 Calendar

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•  January 23, 1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
•  February 13, 1907 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  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.
•  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.
•  October 17, 1907 – Guglielmo Marconi’s company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland.
•  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

•  January 16, 1907 – Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
•  February 22, 1907 – Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
•  February 28, 1907 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (d. 1988)
•  April 12, 1907 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
•  May 13, 1907 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, English author (d. 1989)
•  May 15, 1907 – Sukhdev Thapar, Indian revolutionary figure who fought for independence against the British colonialists (d. 1931)
•  May 22, 1907 – Sir Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen actor (d. 1989)
•  June 6, 1907 – Bill Dickey, American baseball player (d. 1993)
•  June 28, 1907 – Emily Perry, English actress (d. 2008)
•  August 2, 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer (d. 1984)