Page 15: Historical Events In 1907

Dec 16   Eugene H Farrar is 1st to sing on radio (Bkln Navy Yard NY)   

Dec 16   Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on its World Cruise   

Dec 16   Ray C Bliss, (R) Ohio State Republican Chairman.   

Dec 17   Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Br physicist (Kelvin), dies at 83   

Dec 17   Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan   

Dec 18   Christopher Fry, Bristol England, playwright (Ring Around the Moon)   

Dec 19   239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek PA.   

Dec 19   239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.   

Dec 19   Explosion at Jacobs Creek PA, coal mine results in the deaths of 239   

Dec 20   Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine results in the deaths of 91.   

Dec 21   Dutch govt of De Master falls due to war budget.   

Dec 21   Garmt Stuiveling, Dutch literary (Poet in Love).   

Dec 21   Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58.   

Dec 22   Saint-Saëns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St Petersburg.   

Dec 23   1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa.   

Dec 23   Don McNeill, Galena Ill, host (Don McNeill TV Club)   

Dec 23   inaugural all-steel passenger railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa   

Dec 24   Isidor Feinstein "Izzy" Stone, journalist (IF Stone's Weekly), dies.   

Dec 24   I[sidore] F[einstein] Stone, US journalist (IF Stone's Weekly)   

Dec 25   Cab[ell] Calloway, Rochester, bandleader (Minnie the Moocha, Jazzball).   

Dec 27   Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher   

Dec 28   Roman Palester, Polish composer: The Weichsel   

Dec 29   James Gardner, designer   

Dec 30   Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball   

Dec 30   Christina E "Christine" Auwen, Dutch model/singer (Haghezangers).   

Dec 31   For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year.   

Dec 31   For the inaugural time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year   

Dec 31   Jules de Trooz, Belgium PM, dies at 63.   

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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)