Events from the year 1907 in the United States.
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Events
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AprilâÂÂJune
JulyâÂÂSeptember
- July 1 – The United States Treasury stops collecting interest on the 1879 $10 Refunding Certificates, which have their value set at $21.30.
- July 21 – The sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, resulting in 88 deaths.
- July 23 â 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 – American Messenger Service, predecessor to UPS, is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
- September 7 – The new passenger liner 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.
OctoberâÂÂDecember
- 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 4 – In Detroit, Perry and Ben Feigenson begin transforming their cake frosting flavors into The Feigenson Brothers Bottling Works soft drink recipe, later shortened to Faygo.
- 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 are 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 21 – Washington State College defeats the University of Washington 10âÂÂ5 in the Apple Cup in college football, played in Seattle.
- [November 25 – The Church of God in Christ, which becomes the fifth-largest African-American Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination in the United States, is founded by Bishop Charles Harrison Mason in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 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 â 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.
Undated
Ongoing
Sport
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 (died 2000)
- January 19 – Paul Fannin, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1959 to 1965 (died 2002)
- January 29 – Bil Dwyer, cartoonist and humorist (died 1987)
- February 3 – James A. Michener, novelist (died 1997)
- February 12 – Clifton C. Edom, photojournalism educator (died 1991)
- 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)
- Rosebud Yellow Robe, Native American folklorist, educator, and author (died 1992)
- February 27 – Mildred Bailey, Native American jazz singer (died 1951)
- February 28 – Milton Caniff, cartoonist (died 1988)
- March 4 – Maria Branyas, American-Spanish supercentenarian, oldest known living person from 17 January 2023 to 19 August 2024 (died 2024)
- March 5 – Thomas McKimson, animator (died 1998)
- March 12 – Dorrit Hoffleit, astronomer (died 2007)
- March 16 – Frances Fuller, actress (died 1980)
- March 27 – Mary Treen, actress (died 1989)
- April 21 – Wade Mainer, singer and banjoist (died 2011)
- May 2 – Pinky Lee, comedian (died 1993)
- May 3 – Dorothy Young, entertainer (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 15 – Josef Alexander, composer (died 1992)
- 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)
- June 7 – Arthur Marshall Davis, judge (died 1963)
- June 22 – Wesley E. Brown, district court judge (died 2012)
- June 28 – Junius Driggs, businessman (died 1994)
- July 3 – Nora Thompson Dean, Indigenous American (Lenape) linguist (died 1984)
- 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)
- July 9 – Philip Klutznick, administrator, secretary of commerce (died 1999)
- July 10 – John Michaels, baseball pitcher (died 1996)
- July 27 – Ross Alexander, actor (died 1937)
- August 2 – Mary Hamman, writer and editor (died 1984)
- August 14 – Stanley Adams, lyricist and songwriter (died 1994)
- 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)
- Hy Zaret, American lyricist and composer (died 2007)
- 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 1
- Walter Reuther, union leader, founded United Auto Workers (died 1970)
- Miriam Seegar, actress (died 2011)
- September 12 – Spud Chandler, baseball player (died 1990)
- September 15 – Jimmy Wallington, radio personality (died 1972)
- 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 5 – Mrs. Miller, singer (died 1997)
- October 20 – Arlene Francis, actress (died 2001)
- October 22 – Jimmie Foxx, baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1967)
- October 30 – Sol Tax, anthropologist (died 1995)
- November 6 – Charles W. Yost, diplomat (died 1981)
- November 16 – Burgess Meredith, actor (died 1997)
- November 21 – Ben C. Duniway, judge (died 1986)
- November 30 – Katharine Bartlett, anthropologist and museum curator (died 2001)
- December 1 – Joey Aiuppa, mobster (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)
- December 26 – Albert Gore Sr., politician and father of Al Gore (died 1998)
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 9 – Melissa Elizabeth Banta, poet, travel writer (born 1834)
- 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 10 – Stephen Bates, sheriff of Vergennes, Vermont (born 1842)
- 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 11 – Robert Watt, miner (born 1832)
- 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)
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