1907 Events

1907 Albert Einstein begins to apply laws of gravity to Theory of Relativity
In 1907, while still working at the patent office, Einstein had what he would call his "happiest thought". He realized that the principle of relativity could be extended to gravitational ...
1907 Dole brings pineapple cannery to Honolulu
Dole moves pineapple cannery to Honolulu and places ads in U.S. magazines to promote pineapple. (This was one of the first nationwide consumer ad campaigns in America.)
1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault Win Nobel Peace Prize
The range of activities in which Moneta engaged for the propagation of world peace is impressive. In 1890 he began to issue an annual almanac called L'Amico della pace. After his retire...
1907 Ford Model R is First Produced
The Model R was a higher trim level of the Model N with a larger body and wheels covered by full cycle fenders. An oil lamp was also added, and $150 separated the Model R from the $600 ba...
1907 Rudyard Kipling Becomes the First Englishman to be Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 was awarded to Rudyard Kipling "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for na...
1907 Jan 14 Adolf Hitler's mother, Klara, dies
On January 14, 1907, Adolf Hitler's mother went to see the family doctor about a pain in her chest, so bad it kept her awake at night. The doctor, Edward Bloch, who was Jewish, examined h...
1907 Jan 14 The Kingston Earthquake of 1907
In 1907, 800 people died in another earthquake known as the 1907 Kingston earthquake, destroying nearly all the historical buildings south of Parade in the city. That was when a restricti...
1907 Jan 21 Kenora Thistles win Stanley Cup
Wanderers vs. Kenora at Montreal The Wanderers played one Stanley Cup challenge during the season, losing to the Kenora Thistles 2–4, 6–8 on January 17–21. Aided by future Hockey Hall ...
1907 Mar 12 Battleship Iéna Explosion
Iéna was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy. Her design was derived from the preceding Charlemagne class battleships with a heavier secondary battery and thicker armour. She ...
1907 Mar 18 Joseph Stalin's Son Yakov Is Born
Yakov Dzhugashvili had never been popular with his father, whom he held in dread. Stalin disapproved of his choice of wife, Yulia Meltzer, a ballet dancer. When war broke out for the Russ...
1907 Mar 25 Montreal Wanderers win Stanley Cup
Kenora went ahead and added Alf Smith and Rat Westwick of Ottawa for the challenge, against the wishes of Mr. Foran. The series was supposed to start on March 21 in Kenora, but Montreal p...
1907 Jul 6 Frida Kahlo is Born as Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón
Born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón on July 6, 1907, in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico. Considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Frida Kahlo began painting after she was sev...
1907 Jul 20 Pere Marquette Railway Disaster
Thirty-one persons were killed and more than seventy injured, many of them seriously, when a Pere Marquette excursion train bound from Ionia to Detroit crashed into a west-bound freight t...
1907 Jul 26 James Joyce's Daughter Lucia is Born
The cause of Joyce’s greatest anguish, Lucia was born in Trieste in 1907, the second child of impoverished and (until 1931) unwed parents. With them, she moved to Zurich during the First ...
1907 Aug 29 Quebec Bridge Collapse
When the huge uncompleted span of the St Lawrence cantilever bridge near Quebec fell into the river on August 29th last, one of the greatest engineering undertakings of the century became...
1907 Aug 31 Signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente
The Anglo-Russian Entente or the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 was an accord signed on 31 August 1907 in St. Petersburg by Count Alexander Izvolsky, Foreign Minister of the Russian Emp...
1907 Oct 8
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 1907 World Series
The 1907 World Series featured the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, with the Cubs winning the Series four games to none (with one tie) for their first championship. The Cubs came bac...
1907 Nov 16 Oklahoma is the 46th State Admitted to the Union
Oklahoma entered the Union as the forty-sixth state on November 16, 1907. Derived from the Choctaw Indian words "okla," meaning people, and "humma," meaning red, Oklahoma was designated I...
1907 Dec 6 Monongah Mining Disaster
The worst mining disaster in American History occurred in the community of Monongah, West Virginia on December 6, 1907. Around 10 o'clock in the morning after a full force of 380 men and ...