Page 11: Historical Events In 1907

Aug 29   Joseph Wechsberg, Austria/US writer (Looking For a Bluebird)   

Aug 29   The Quebec Bridge collapses during construction, killing 75 workers.   

Aug 30   Fred MacMurray, Kankakee Ill, actor (Caine Mutiny, My 3 Sons)   

Aug 31   August F Hawkins, (Rep-D-CA, 1963- )   

Aug 31   Britain and Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia and Tibet.   

Aug 31   England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente.   

Sep 01   Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic.   

Sep 03   Andrew Brewin, Canada, lawyer/cofound New Democratic Party   

Sep 04   Edvard Grieg, composer, dies at 64.   

Sep 04   Leo Castelli, Trieste, American art dealer   

Sep 05   Sunnyland Albert Luandrew Slim, blues pianist.   

Sep 06   Elizabeth Morna MacTaggart Ferrars, crime writer.   

Sep 07   Ahmet Adnan Saygun, composer   

Sep 07   R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies   

Sep 07   Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire   

Sep 08   Buck O'Neil, Old Negro League Baseball player.   

Sep 08   In this year, Pius X publishes encyclical Pasceni dominici gregis (anti-modernism)   

Sep 09   Leon Edel, biographer.   

Sep 10   Fay Wray, US actress is born.   

Sep 12   Joe Lederer, Austrian actress/writer (Drei Tage Liebe)   

Sep 12   Lusitania arrives in NYC after 5 day crossing of Atlantic (record)   

Sep 13   Interprovincial Rugby Football union (Big Four) forms with Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal Foot Ball   

Sep 13   Victor Reinganum, artist.   

Sep 14   A Cecil Snyder, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico.   

Sep 15   Fay Wray, Alberta Canada, actress-King Kong's main squeeze.   

Sep 17   Desmond Heap, authority on British planning law.   

Sep 17   Ignaz Brull, composer, dies at 60.   

Sep 18   Edwin M McMillan, US, physicist/discoverer plutonium (Nobel prize).   

Sep 19   Lewis F Powell Jr, Va, Supreme Court justice (1972-87).   

Sep 20   Pitts Nick Maddox no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 2-1   

Sep 21   Helen Foster Snow, writer   

Sep 23   Jarmila Novotna, soprano (Met Opera)/pres of Czechoslovakia (1957-68)   

Sep 23   Proclamation sets fineness and weight of silver and bronze coins of Canada.   

Sep 24   Pierre Moulaert, composer   

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Jan 01   Erich schmid: Composer   

Jan 02   Edward albert radice: Economist   

Jan 02   Salvador ley: Composer   

Jan 03   Anna may wong: La calif, actress (impact, study in scarlet)   

Jan 05   Anton ingolic: Slavic author (after splavih, after prelomu)   

Jan 05   Wilhelm j soukop: Austrian/british sculptor   

Jan 05   Willi soukop: Sculptor   

Jan 06   David fleay: Australian naturalist   

Jan 01   Cyrill kistler: Composer,   

Jan 03   Josef foerster: Composer,   

Jan 06   Walter read: Cricketer (engl batsman, 117 at no 10 v aust 1884),   

Jan 07   Anton urspruch: Composer,   

Jan 08   Theodoor verstraete: Flemish painter/etcher,    

Jan 14   Karl von perfall: Composer,   

Jan 16   Alfred shaw: Cricketer (seven tests for england 1877-82),   

Jan 25   René pottier: French cyclist (b. 1879)