WHAT HAPPENED IN 1907.
Look what happened the 1907.

In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater. (28. November 1907)

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

King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne. (8. December 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 New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire. (11. December 1907)

The schooner Thomas W. Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die. (14. December 1907)

The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. (16. December 1907)

Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan (17. December 1907)

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

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