WHAT HAPPENED IN 1907.
Look what happened the 1907.

Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy. (6. January 1907)

An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000. (14. January 1907)

The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the second oldest military rifle still in official use. (26. January 1907)

Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator. (29. January 1907)

The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). (7. February 1907)

The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published. (24. March 1907)

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

Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened. (24. April 1907)

Honolulu, Hawaii becomes an independent city. (30. April 1907)

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

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

Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California. (27. May 1907)

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

George Dennett, aided by Gilbert Jessop, dismisses Northamptonshire for 12 runs, the lowest total in first-class cricket. (11. June 1907)

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

The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens. (22. June 1907)

The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery took place in Yerevan Square, now Freedom Square, Tbilisi. (26. June 1907)

Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. (7. July 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)

Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England, United Kingdom. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement. (29. July 1907)