1907 Calendar
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1907 Historical Event(s)
- 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.
- March 24, 1907 – The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
- June 26, 1907 – The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi.
- July 8, 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
- 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.
- 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 16, 1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
Who Were Born On 1907?
- January 12, 1907 – Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1966)
- January 23, 1907 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
- March 13, 1907 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (d. 1986)
- April 12, 1907 – Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003)
- May 1, 1907 – Kate Smith, American singer (d. 1986)
- May 12, 1907 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
- July 28, 1907 – Earl Tupper, American inventor of Tupperware (d. 1983)
- August 3, 1907 – Ernesto Geisel, President of Brazil (d. 1996)
- September 18, 1907 – Leon Askin, Austrian actor (d. 2005)
- September 27, 1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)