WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO AUGUST 1907
Find out what all happened July to August 1907

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

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

The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement. (1. August 1907)

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

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)

Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies. (15. 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 first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England. (9. August 1907)

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