WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO NOVEMBER 1907
Find out what all happened June to November 1907

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

In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater. (28. November 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 first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England. (9. August 1907)

Count Alexander Izvolsky and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the St. Petersburg Convention, which results in the Triple Entente alliance. (31. August 1907)

Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City. (7. September 1907)

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

Guglielmo Marconi's company begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service between Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada and Clifden, Ireland. (17. October 1907)

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

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

Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated. (9. October 1907)

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

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

Černová massacre: Fifteen people are killed in the Hungarian half of Austria-Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration. This would led to protests over the treatment of minorities in Austria-Hungary. (27. October 1907)

The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. (29. August 1907)

New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire. (26. September 1907)

Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode. (7. November 1907)

Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. (7. July 1907)

McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio. (30. September 1907)

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