1907 in the United States

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 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 9 – Reclamation Service within the Department of the Interior.

April–June

• April – The April 1907 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, (an Engineering Fraternity) is founded at Pennsylvania State University.
• April 17 – April 17 goes down as the busiest day of immigration in the history Ellis Island.^[1] 1907 is the busiest year ever seen at Ellis Island, with 1.1 million immigrants arriving there.^[2]
• April 18 – The USS Kansas (BB-21), a Connecticut-class battleship, is commissioned.

July–September

• July 21 – The SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, U.S.A., resulting in 88 deaths.
• August 1 – Aeronautical Division established within the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
• August 15 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American 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 29 – A foundation stone is laid for the Washington National Cathedral; construction would 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 become Oklahoma, which is admitted 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 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

• The Lockport Powerhouse is built in Illinois.

Ongoing

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

Births

• January 2 – Gordon L. Allott, United States Senator from Colorado from 1955 till 1973. (died 1989)
• January 19 – Paul Fannin, United States Senator from Arizona from 1959 till 1965. (died 2002)
• February 15 – Cesar Romero, actor (died 1994)
• May 15 – Thomas J. Dodd, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1959 till 1971. (died 1971)
• June 6 – Nate Barragar, American football player and actor (d. 1985)
• July 4
  • John Anderson, discus thrower (d. 1948)
  • Gordon Griffith, actor, director, and producer (d. 1958)
  • Howard Taubman, author and critic (d. 1996)
• August 19 – Thruston Ballard Morton, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1957 till 1968. (died 1982)
• November 16 – Burgess Meredith, actor (died 1997)

Deaths

• January 2 – Henry R. Pease, United States Senator from Mississippi from 1874 till 1875. (born 1835)
• January 24 – Russell A. Alger, United States Senator from Michigan from 1902 till 1907. (born 1836)
• March 9 – James L. Pugh, United States Senator from Alabama from 1880 till 1897. (born 1820)
• May 8 – Edmund G. Ross, United States Senator from Kansas from 1866 till 1871. (born 1826)
• May 24 – John Patton, Jr., United States Senator from Michigan from 1894 till 1895. (born 1850)
• May 26 – Ida Saxton McKinley, wife of William McKinley, First Lady of the United States, (born 1847)
• June 11 – John Tyler Morgan, United States Senator from Alabama from 1877 till 1907. (born 1824)
• June 21 – Lucien Baker, United States Senator from Kansas from 1895 till 1901. (born 1846)
• July 27 – Edmund Pettus, United States Senator from Alabama from 1897 till 1907. (born 1821)
• October 8 – Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge, wife of John C. Breckinridge, Second Lady of the United States (born 1826)
• December 7– Carrie Clark, Model, notably of Muriel's Babies cigar box fame.
• December 23 – Stephen Mallory II, United States Senator from Florida from 1897 till 1907. (born 1848)

See also

• List of American films of 1907

References

External links

• Media related to 1907 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons