WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO DECEMBER 1907
Find out what all happened April to December 1907

The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday. (9. November 1907)

Norway grants women the right to vote. (14. June 1907)

Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania, sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City. (16. November 1907)

A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers. (6. December 1907)

The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day. (17. April 1907)

The first Isle of Man TT race was held. (28. May 1907)

Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University. (7. November 1907)

The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session. (23. May 1907)

Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, Washington, opened. (17. August 1907)

The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England. (9. August 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. (3. August 1907)

The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected. (10. December 1907)

The passenger steamer SS Columbia collides with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, causing the Columbia to sink killing 88 people. (21. July 1907)

Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state. (16. November 1907)

239 coal miners die in a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania. (19. December 1907)

Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression. (22. October 1907)

The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York, New York. (31. December 1907)

32 Shriners are killed when their chartered train derails at a switch near Surf Depot in Lompoc, California. (11. May 1907)

Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies. (15. August 1907)

The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile. (21. December 1907)

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