January 2 – Police fight a gunbattle on London’s Sidney Street January 18 – Eugene B. Ely becomes the first person to land an airplane on a ship February 1 – Thirty people are killed in an explosion at Communipaw, New Jersey. The blast is felt 50 miles away, rocking office buildings and breaking windows …
January 1st – U.S. President William H. Taft opens the New Year by shaking hands with 5,575 members of the general public at The White House January 11th – Charcot Island is discovered by Antarctic expedition led by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, while sailing on the ship Pourquoi Pas January 13th – The first radio …
January 6 – The Great White Fleet, consisting of 16 U.S. Navy battleships sailing the globe in a display of American naval power, successfully completed its passage through the Suez Canal, passing from the Indian Ocean into the Mediterranean Sea January 9 — The British Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, …
January 1 — Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the Nimrod, for Antarctica. January 13 — A fire at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 170 February 1 — King Carlos I of Portugal and Infante Luis Filipe are shot dead in Lisbon. February 12 — The first around-the-world car race, …
January 6 — The first Montessori school and daycare center for working class children opens in Rome March – The 1907 Romanian Peasants’ Revolt results in possibly as many as 11,000 deaths April 17 — The first Minas Geraes-class battleship is laid down for Brazil, by Armstrong Whitworth on the River Tyne, in England, triggering …
January 12 — A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah to grant a constitution, and establish a national assembly, the Majlis. January 16—April 7 — The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany. January 22 — The SS Valencia strikes a reef …
January 22 — The Bloody Sunday massacre of peaceful Russian demonstrators in St Petersberg helps trigger the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905. February 20 — Russo-Japanese War – The Battle of Mukden begins in Manchuria March 20 — Grover Shoe Factory disaster – A boiler explosion, building collapse and fire in Brockton, Massachusetts, kills 58 …
January 8 — The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system January 18 — The Herero Rebellion in German South-West Africa begins January 23 — The Ã…lesund Fire destroys most buildings in the town of Ã…lesund, Norway, leaving about 10,000 people without shelter February 7 — The Great Baltimore …
Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight The first Tour De France is won by Maurice Garin The first Teddy Bear is created, based on this drawing of Theodore Roosevelt sparing the life of a bear cub American socialite …
January 30th – Scott’s Discovery Expedition reaches the Great Ice Barrier in Antarctica March 6th – Real Madrid F.C. are founded April 5th – The Ibrox Stadium stands collapse during an England-Scotland match – 25 are killed, 517 are injured April 11th – The South African Army fights a last, disastrous battle against the British …
