Page 2: Historical Events In 1907

Jan 22   Marie Dressler, actress (Anna Christie, Dinner at 8)   

Jan 23   Charles Curtis of Kansas is recorded as becoming 1st Native American US senator   

Jan 23   Charles Curtis of Kansas is recorded as becoming inaugural Native American US senator   

Jan 23   Charles Curtis, the inaugural Native American to become a U.S. senator, begins serving his term. (Twenty-two years later, Curtis resigned to become Vice President of the U.S. with President Herbert Hoover's administration.).   

Jan 23   Dan Duryea, White Plains NY, actor (Pride of the Yankees)   

Jan 24   Alfonse Vranckx, Belgian lawyer/politician.   

Jan 25   Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts and Letters.   

Jan 25   Julia Ward Howe is inaugural woman elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters   

Jan 26   1st federal corrupt election practices law passed   

Jan 26   Eddie Ballantine, Chicago, orch leader (Don McNeill TV Club).   

Jan 26   J M Synge's "Playboy of the Western World" opens; police are called   

Jan 26   The inaugural federal corrupt election practices law passed   

Jan 27   Henry Cotton, English golf champion (won 3x British Open)   

Jan 28   Constantin Regamey, composer   

Jan 31   Timothy Eaton, founder of the T. Eaton Company of Canada, dies; an innovative retailer, he maintained fixed prices and cash sales, with satisfaction guaranteed.   

Feb 01   Alan Strode Campbell Ross, professor (coined the terms U and non-U).   

Feb 02   Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic.   

Feb 02   Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at 72   

Feb 03   James A Michner, NYC, writer (South Pacific, Hawaii, Space)   

Feb 03   James Michener, American author is born.   

Feb 05   Arnold Schoenberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna   

Feb 05   Jan Klaasesz, Dutch governor Suriname (1949-56).   

Feb 05   Ludwig Thuille, composer, dies at 45.   

Feb 06   Sam Green, industrialist/inventor   

Feb 07   Arthur George Bottomley, politician.   

Feb 07   The Mud March was the inaugural large procession organized by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)   

Feb 08   Hendrik W Bakhuis Roozeboom, chemist (fasenleer), dies at 52.   

Feb 09   Aubrey "Dit" Clapper, NHL hall of famer (Boston Bruins).   

Feb 10   Grace Hamilton, 1st black member of Georgia state legislature   

Feb 11   De Master's Dutch government steps down.   

Feb 11   De Master's Dutch govt steps down   

Feb 11   E W Swanton, author and sports commentator.   

Feb 11   Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die   

Feb 11   Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80.   

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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)