1907 in the United States

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Events from the year 1907 in the United States.

Incumbents[]

Federal Government[]

  • President: Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York)
  • Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks (R-Indiana)
  • Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois)
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-Illinois)
  • Congress: 59th (until March 4), 60th (starting March 4)

Events[]

December 16: Great White Fleet

January–March[]

  • January 1 – Daniel J. Tobin becomes president of the Teamsters, beginning a 45-year presidency.
  • January 23 – Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
  • February 6 – Nantahala National Forest is established.
  • February 12 – The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost.
  • February 26 – President Theodore Roosevelt appoints Col. George Washington Goethals as chief engineer of the Panama Canal.
  • March 1 – Colville National Forest is established.
  • March 2 – Umpqua and Custer National Forest are established.
  • March 9 – Reclamation Service within the Department of the Interior.

April–June[]

  • April – This month's issue of Good Housekeeping magazine displays the cover price One Dollar a Year (under the title).
  • April 7 – Hersheypark opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
  • April 15 – Triangle Fraternity, for engineering and related majors, is founded at Pennsylvania State University.
  • April 17 – Today is the all-time busiest day of immigration through Ellis Island;[1] this will be the busiest year ever seen here, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving.[2]
  • April 18 – The USS Kansas (BB-21), a Connecticut-class battleship, is commissioned.
  • May 25 – Inyo National Forest is established.

July–September[]

  • July 21 – The SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, resulting in 88 deaths.
  • July 23 – Chugach National Forest is established.
  • August 1 – Aeronautical Division established within the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
  • August 15 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Eastern Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
  • August 17 – Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opens for business.
  • August 28 – UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
  • September 7 – The new passenger liner RMS Lusitania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
  • September 10 – The first Neiman Marcus luxury department store opens in Dallas, Texas.
  • September 29 – A foundation stone is laid for the Washington National Cathedral; construction will not be fully completed until 1990.

October–December[]

November 16: Oklahoma
  • October 1 – Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners established within Department of Justice.
  • October 22 – Panic of 1907: A bank run forces New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations.
  • October 24 – A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907, a move which ultimately leads to establishment of the Federal Reserve System.
  • November 3 – President Roosevelt approves the takeover of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company by J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel company in the wake of the panic of 1907.
  • November 7 – Delta Sigma Pi (a co-ed professional business fraternity) is founded at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance of New York University in New York City.
  • November 16
    • Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory were combined to become Oklahoma, which is admitted into the Union as the 46th U.S. state (see History of Oklahoma).
    • Passenger liner RMS Mauretania, the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool (England) to New York.
  • November 28 – Johnny Hayes wins the inaugural Yonkers Marathon.
  • December 6 – Monongah Mining Disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
  • December 16 – The Great White Fleet departs Hampton Roads, Virginia on a 14-month circumnavigation of the globe.
  • December 18 – Ouachita National Forest is established.
  • December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239.
  • December 31 – The first electric ball drops in Times Square.[3]
Southern Pine Lumber Company billing clerk's office, Texarkana, Arkansas, 1907.

Undated[]

  • Indiana becomes the world's first legislature to place laws permitting compulsory sterilization for eugenic purposes on the statute book.
  • The Lockport Powerhouse is built in Illinois.
  • The Osage Nation retains mineral rights in reservation lands.

Ongoing[]

  • Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
  • Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
  • Black Patch Tobacco Wars (1904–1908)
  • Great White Fleet voyage (1907–1909)

Sport[]

  • November 23 - Yale Bulldogs win their first IAAUS (later NCAA) College Football National Championship

Births[]

  • January 2 – Gordon L. Allott, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1955 to 1973 (died 1989)
  • January 9
    • Eldred G. Smith, patriarch (d. 2013)
    • Earl W. Renfroe, African American orthodontist, educator, and activist (d. 2000)
  • January 19 – Paul Fannin, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1959 to 1965 (died 2002)
  • February 3 – James A. Michener, novelist (died 1997)
  • February 15 – Cesar Romero, actor (died 1994)
  • February 22
    • Sheldon Leonard, screen actor, writer, director and producer (died 1997)
    • Robert Young, actor (died 1998)
  • February 25 – Kathryn Wasserman Davis, philanthropist (died 2013)
  • February 26 – Dub Taylor, screen character actor (died 1994)
  • February 27 – Mildred Bailey, Native American jazz singer (died 1951)
  • February 28 – Milton Caniff, cartoonist (died 1988)
  • March 12 – Dorrit Hoffleit, astronomer (died 2007)
  • April 21 – Wade Mainer, singer and banjoist (died 2011)
  • May 4 – Lincoln Kirstein, cultural figure (died 1996)
  • May 11 – Kent Taylor, screen actor (died 1987)
  • May 12 – Katharine Hepburn, screen actress (died 2003)
  • May 15 – Thomas J. Dodd, U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1959 to 1971 (died 1971)
  • May 26 – John Wayne, film actor and director (died 1979)
  • May 27 – Rachel Carson, environmental writer (died 1964)
  • June 6 – Nate Barragar, American football player and actor (died 1985)
  • July 4
    • John Anderson, discus thrower (died 1948)
    • Gordon Griffith, actor, director and producer (died 1958)
    • Howard Taubman, author and critic (died 1996)
  • July 7 – Robert A. Heinlein, science fiction author (died 1988)
  • August 19 – Thruston Ballard Morton, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1957 to 1968 (died 1982)
  • August 21 – John G. Trump, electrical engineer, inventor and physicist (died 1985)
  • August 29 – Lurene Tuttle, radio actress (died 1986)
  • August 30 – John Mauchly, computer scientist (died 1980)
  • August 31 – William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker (died 1992)
  • September 17 – Warren E. Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1995)
  • September 19 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (died 1998)
  • October 22 – Jimmie Foxx, baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1967)
  • November 16 – Burgess Meredith, actor (died 1997)
  • December 23 – James Roosevelt, businessman and politician (died 1991)
  • December 25
    • Cab Calloway, African American jazz singer and bandleader (died 1994)
    • Glenn McCarthy, oil tycoon (died 1988)
    • Rufus P. Turner, African American electronic engineer (died 1982)

Deaths[]

  • January 2 – Henry R. Pease, U.S. Senator from Mississippi from 1874 to 1875 (born 1835)
  • January 24 – Russell A. Alger, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1902 to 1907 (born 1836)
  • February 17 – Henry Steel Olcott, military officer and co-founder of the Theosophical Society (born 1832)
  • March 9 – James L. Pugh, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1880 to 1897 (born 1820)
  • April 14 – Frank Manly Thorn, lawyer, politician, government official, essayist, journalist, humorist, inventor and 6th Superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (born 1836)
  • April 23 – Alferd Packer, cannibal (born 1842)
  • May 1 – Melissa Elizabeth Riddle Banta, poet (born 1834)
  • May 4 – John Watts de Peyster, author, philanthropist and soldier (born 1821)
  • May 8 – Edmund G. Ross, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1866 to 1871 (born 1826)
  • May 24 – John Patton, Jr., U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1894 to 1895 (born 1850)
  • May 26 – Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady of the United States (born 1847)
  • June 11 – John Tyler Morgan, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1877 to 1907 (born 1824)
  • June 12 – Ellen Russell Emerson, ethnologist (born 1837)
  • June 14 – William Le Baron Jenney, architect and civil engineer (born 1832)
  • June 21 – Lucien Baker, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1895 to 1901 (born 1846)
  • July 25 – Peter Anderson, Union Army Medal of Honor recipient (born 1847)
  • July 27 – Edmund Pettus, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1897 to 1907 (born 1821)
  • August 1 – Lucy Mabel Hall-Brown, physician and writer (born 1843)
  • August 3 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Beaux-Arts sculptor (born 1848 in Ireland)
  • August 14 – William Birney, Union Army general, abolitionist, attorney and writer (born 1819)
  • October 3 – Jacob Nash Victor, railroad builder (born 1835)
  • October 8 – Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge, Second Lady of the United States (born 1826)
  • October 30 – Caroline Dana Howe, author (born 1824)
  • November 22 – Asaph Hall, astronomer (born 1829)
  • December 7 – Carrie Clark, model, notably of Muriel's Babies cigar box fame
  • December 23 – Stephen Mallory II, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1897 to 1907 (born 1848)
  • Sarah Gibson Humphreys, author and suffragist (born 1830)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Ellis Island - Free Port of New York Passenger Records Search.
  2. ^ "Ellis Island closes". This Day in History. History.com. 1954-12-11.
  3. ^ The New York Times 2007-12-12.

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