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1907

1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1907th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 907th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 20th…

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Defining events of 1907

  1. 1907 The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.

    Island in New York Harbor in the US

    S. states of New Jersey and New York. S.

  2. 1907 The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.

    1907 location of experimental scout camp

    Brownsea Island Scout camp is a historic Scout campsite on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour in southern England, which was the site of Robert Baden-Powell's 1907 experimental camp for boys to test ideas for his book Scouting for Boys, which led to the rapid growth of the Scout movement. Boys from different social backgrounds participated from 1 to 8 August 1907 in activities around camping, observation, woodcraft, chivalry, lifesaving and patriotism.

  3. 1907 Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.

    19/20th-century Jamaican-American priest

    Robert Josias "Raphael" Morgan was a Jamaican-American who is believed to be the first Black Eastern Orthodox priest in the United States. After being active in other denominations, including the AME Church, Church of England, and the Episcopal Church, Morgan converted to Orthodoxy. He was ordained as an Eastern Orthodox priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

  4. 1907 Pike Place Market, one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the U.S. and a popular tourist attraction, opens in Seattle, Washington.

    Public market in Seattle, Washington

    Pike Place Market is a public market in Seattle, Washington, United States. It opened on August 17, 1907, and is one of the older continuously operated public farmers' markets in the United States. Overlooking the Elliott Bay waterfront on Puget Sound, it serves as a place of business for many small farmers, craftspeople and merchants.

  5. 1907 The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.

    Bridge in Quebec City and Lévis, Quebec

    The Quebec Bridge is a road, rail, and pedestrian bridge across the lower Saint Lawrence River between Sainte-Foy and Lévis, in Quebec, Canada. The project failed twice during its construction, in 1907 and 1916, at the cost of 88 lives and additional people injured. The bridge eventually opened in 1919.

  6. 1907 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.

    American judge and first commissioner of baseball (1866–1944)

    Kenesaw Mountain Landis was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first commissioner of baseball from 1920 until his death in 1944. He is remembered for his resolution of the Black Sox Scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests. His iron rule over baseball in the near quarter-century of his commissionership is generally credited with restoring public confidence in the game.

  7. 1907 Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognizes Russian preeminence in northern Persia, while Russia recognizes British preeminence in southeastern Persia and Afghanistan. Both powers pledge not to interfere in Tibet.
  8. 1907 The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
  9. 1907 The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students, protesting against the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected, clash with 400 police officers.
  10. 1907 The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.

Farewells

Died in 1907

William Henry Perkin English chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye
William Henry Perkin English chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye
William Henry Perkin English chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye
William Henry Perkin English chemist known for his accidental discovery of the first synthetic dye

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