1907 in the United States

1907 in the United States
Decades:	1880s 1890s – 1900s – 1910s 1920s
Years:	1904 1905 1906 – 1907 – 1908 1909 1910
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Events from the year 1907 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)
• Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks (Republican)
• Chief Justice: Melville Fuller
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-Illinois)
• Congress: 59th (until March 4), 60th (starting March 4)

Events

December 16: Great White Fleet

January–March

• January 1 – Daniel J. Tobin becomes president of the Teamsters, beginning a 45-year presidency.
• January 23 – Charles Curtis from Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
• February 12 – The steamship Larchmont collides with the Harry Hamilton in Long Island Sound; 183 lives are lost.
• February 26 – President Theodore Roosevelt appoints Col. George Washington Goethals as chief engineer of the Panama Canal.
• March 9 – Reclamation Service within the Department of the Interior.

April–June

• April – The April 1907 issue of Good Housekeeping Magazine displays the cover price One Dollar a Year (under the title).
• April 7 – Hersheypark opens in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
• April 18 – The USS Kansas (BB-21), a Connecticut-class battleship, is commissioned.

July–September

• July 21 – The SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the lumber schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, U.S.A., resulting in 88 deaths.
• August 1 – Aeronautical Division established within the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
• August 15 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
• August 17 – Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington officially opens for business.
• August 28 – UPS is founded by James E. (Jim) Casey in Seattle, Washington.
• September 7 – The new passenger liner RMS Lusitania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
• September 29 – A foundation stone is laid for the Washington National Cathedral; construction would not be fully completed until 1990.

October–December

November 16: Oklahoma

• October 1 – Office of the Superintendent of Prisons and Prisoners established within Department of Justice.
• October 24 – A major American financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick, and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907.^[1]
• November 7 – Delta Sigma Pi (a co-ed professional business fraternity) is founded at the School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, New York University, New York, New York.
• November 16 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
• November 28 – Johnny Hayes wins the inaugural Yonkers Marathon.
• December 6 – Monongah Mining Disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia.
• December 16 – The Great White Fleet departs Hampton Roads, Virginia on a 14-month circumnavigation of the globe.
• December 19 – An explosion in a coal mine in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania kills 239.
• December 31 – The first electric ball drops in Times Square.^[2]

Undated

• The new largest passenger liner RMS Mauretania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
• The Lockport Powerhouse is built.

Ongoing

• Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• Black Patch Tobacco Wars (1904–1908)
• Great White Fleet voyage (1907–1909)

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References

External links

• Media related to 1907 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons